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Statistics have also proven that it has become more difficult to find a job amid the coronavirus. The employment rate for job seekers with a college degree or higher was the lowest since 2011 when the survey began.



Reporter Kim Kyung-hee will tell you the details.



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Many college students say that COVID-19 has taken away not only the romance of the campus, but also the dream of finding a job.



[Mr. Yoon / 4th year at ○○ University: I heard a lot of people saying that they couldn’t get a job anymore because of the corona, and I saw quite a few seniors who couldn’t find a job even after preparing for a



year or two

.] In

fact, those who graduated from university and graduate school in February of last year to find a job Only 65% ​​of them were employed.



This is the lowest figure since the survey started in 2011, and it is down 2 percentage points from the previous year.



Excluding those who graduated from general graduate schools with an employment rate of 80%, the employment rate for graduates of 4-year general colleges drops to 61%.



[Lee Ji-seon / Head of Talent Development Policy Division, Ministry of Education: Companies tended to reduce or postpone recruitment, and the number of new hires decreased due to the hiring of experienced workers.] As



countries lock their borders, especially those employed abroad, It was torn apart, and the one-man startup and entrepreneur was also small.



The difference in employment rates in the metropolitan area, non-metropolitan area, and region was wider than in the previous year.



The gap in the employment rate of male and female graduates is also widening every year.



It is predicted that the difficulty of finding a job will continue even for graduating students in February of this year.



[Lim Min-wook / Saramin Public Relations Team Leader: There were many companies that reduced their plans to hire full-time workers, and the rate of hiring experienced workers was twice as high as that of new hires, so the employment portal felt by new job seekers felt narrower (the reality is)]



February last year Among graduates, employed workers earned an average of 2.441 thousand won per month, and those employed in small and medium-sized enterprises accounted for nearly half of them (48%).



(Video editing: Park Jin-hoon, CG: Kim Jong-un)