Among the top five conglomerates, Samsung is the only one to have started the public recruitment process for new employees in the first half of the year, while domestic large corporations are also resuming offline university recruitment briefings that were halted due to the spread of COVID-19.
Samsung and its 19 affiliates, including Samsung Electronics, will accept applications for new employee recruitment from the 8th to the 15th. The first half recruitment will proceed in the order of ▲Job Suitability Assessment (March) ▲Samsung Aptitude Test (April) ▲Interview Process (May) ▲Employment Health Checkup (June).
The usual recruitment scale is about 10,000 people annually, but Samsung is expected to hire more personnel this year to create quality youth jobs. Samsung hired more than 40,000 people over three years from 2018 to 2020, and in May last year, announced plans to recruit 80,000 new employees over five years from 2022 to 2026. In fact, Samsung Electronics’ number of employees increased by 7,959 to 120,827 last year compared to the previous year, doubling the increase of 3,988 in 2021.
LG is conducting occasional recruitment for new employees at major affiliates including LG Electronics, LG CNS, LG Magma, LG Chem, and LG Uplus. Since LG Electronics also announced a plan to directly hire 50,000 people from 2022 to 2026, more than 10,000 new hires are expected annually. SK Group has started first-half recruitment for new employees at six business subsidiaries within the group, including SK Innovation, SK Energy, SK Geocentric, SK Enmove, SK Incheon Petrochem, SK Trading International, and SK IE Technology. The recruitment scale is in the triple digits. SK Hynix is also expected to announce new employee recruitment this month.
Hyundai Motor Company is recruiting technical new employees for the first time in 10 years. They plan to hire 400 this year and 300 next year. Applications are accepted until the 12th, with successful candidates for document screening announced at the end of this month, followed by interviews and the final successful candidates announced in July. The response has been so enthusiastic that the recruitment website was temporarily paralyzed due to the influx of applicants. POSCO Group has also started first-half recruitment for new employees. Four companies?POSCO, POSCO International, POSCO Chemical, and POSCO Flow?are accepting applications until 3 p.m. on the 22nd. Multiple applications within the group companies are allowed.
As large corporations begin first-half recruitment, the job preparation atmosphere on university campuses is heating up. Major universities in the Seoul metropolitan area have resumed offline recruitment briefings that had stopped after COVID-19. Domestic major companies such as Samsung, LG, SK, Hyundai, POSCO, Lotte, Hanwha, and KT are participating in offline university recruitment briefings for the first time in four years.
LG Electronics started recruitment briefings on the 6th at Yonsei University and is visiting KAIST, POSTECH, Korea University, Hanyang University, Ewha Womans University, and others. Samsung Electronics is also dispatching HR personnel from the 9th to set up recruitment booths and conduct briefings at universities. Kia, which is recruiting new university graduate employees until the 20th of this month, has been holding recruitment briefings with HR personnel participating at 13 universities in Seoul and the metropolitan area since the 6th.
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