<Anchor> This is a
friendly economic time. Today (6th), I will be with reporter Kim Hye-min. It's already September. Usually in September, the full-fledged employment season begins. But last year, because of the corona virus, it was so bad, so the expectation that this year will be better has increased a lot?
<Reporter>
Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, companies have also drastically reduced their recruitment since last year. Not long ago, the Korea Chamber of Commerce and Industry conducted a survey.
Among them, there was a question asked about the 'company award' that Koreans want the most, and when asked, 1 out of 3 people answered 'a company that creates a lot of jobs'.
The highest percentage of all age groups, from teens to 60s, answered this question. As the pattern of increasing and decreasing COVID-19 cases is repeated for a long period of time, the household economy of the people is getting tougher. The wishes of the people are getting bigger.
<Anchor>
How about like this wind? Do you think the job situation will be good this year?
<Reporter>
To give you the conclusion in advance, it's a little better than last year, but it's still not that good.
The Korea Economic Research Institute asked 500 companies in sales about their new hiring plans in the second half of the year.
About 13% of companies said they would not hire, and 54.5% of companies did not have a new hiring plan.
Compared to last year, when the number of companies that answered these two answers exceeded 74% of the total, it improved a little, but it looks relatively good last year because the domestic and international economy was not very good due to the Corona 19 crisis last year.
Considering the recent momentum of the fourth COVID-19 pandemic, the cold wave in the recruitment market is expected to continue for the time being.
Still, the hopeful part is that among large companies with new hiring plans, more than half said they wanted to increase hiring compared to last year.
<Anchor> It's a
little better than last year, but it's still really bad. However, if you have any information that might be helpful for job seekers, please let me know.
<Reporter>
First of all, there were many companies that wanted to hire untact as in the era of COVID-19. More than 70% of companies answered that they have used or are considering using untact recruitment for new college graduates this year.
Last year it was 54%, which is a huge increase.
So, recently, there have been quite a few companies that ask you to submit a video file containing a self-introduction video or conduct a remote interview.
The unfortunate part is that from the point of view of job seekers, there is more to prepare, and the cost of purchasing equipment such as equipment is also increased.
In addition, many companies have introduced ad-hoc hiring, which only hires the necessary manpower when needed.
This year, 63.6% of companies used random recruitment for new college graduates, which also increased by 11 percentage points compared to last year.
Of these, 24% of the companies said they would only proceed with temporary recruitment. In addition, more and more companies are willing to hire 'experienced' rather than new hires.
Although it is an efficient recruitment method for companies, job seekers have fewer and fewer places to write job applications.
<Anchor>
Reporter Kim Lastly, today, it seems like a bit of a niche market, but these days, companies are focusing on other things besides making money, like social contribution. Are you saying that you are trying to recruit a lot of talent?
<Reporter> If
you know in advance what kind of talent companies need, it will be easier to find a job. Recently, companies are paying attention to ESG management, which refers to management that focuses on non-financial factors such as environment, society, and governance in addition to making money.
For example, ethical aspects such as social contribution activities or improvement of corporate governance are becoming more important.
One in four companies plans to hire ESG-related talent in the second half of this year. It increased by more than 11 percentage points compared to the first half.
Since the importance of ESG is a global trend and is expected to become more and more important, it is expected that building up relevant specifications and experience in advance will be of some help in hiring.