‘Chunhachudong Job Fair’, 29 On-site Hires and 94 Additional Interviews Conducted
Building Customized Job Opportunities Based on Local Industry, Life Cycle, and Vulnerable Groups
Gumi City in Gyeongbuk is making every effort to create jobs through the discovery of customized job policies for local industries to revitalize the regional economy.
▲‘2023 Root Industry Spring-Summer-Autumn-Winter Job Fair’ Successfully Concluded, One-Stop Matching for Employers and Job Seekers
The city held the ‘2023 Root Industry Spring-Summer-Autumn-Winter Job Fair’ at the Park Chung-hee Gymnasium on the 11th, where 45 outstanding local companies including Nongshim, KR EMS, and Abatech participated to conduct on-site interviews to hire local talent.
About 1,100 job seekers gathered from across the country, including nearby Daegu and Gyeongbuk areas such as Gimcheon and Chilgok, as well as Busan and Gwangju, adding to the enthusiasm. Among the participants, 658 job seekers underwent interviews, 29 were hired on the spot, and 94 are expected to be hired after additional interviews and procedures.
The job fair is jointly held quarterly in spring, summer, autumn, and winter by the city and employment-related organizations to provide job seekers with employment information and quality jobs, leading efforts to revitalize the regional economy by resolving recruitment difficulties in key local industries and small and medium-sized enterprises.
The Gumi Employment Support Center, which co-hosted the event, plans to do its best to provide continuous job-seeking services and job-related project guidance to participants for follow-up management.
As of the end of September, 3,923 job seekers have visited the Gumi Employment Support Center, of whom 1,098 have successfully found employment. In addition to matching services, the center is working in various ways to improve employment rates, including employment lectures to strengthen job seekers’ capabilities and building cooperative systems with companies and related organizations.
The city operates the ‘Gyeongbuk Crisis Worker JOB Matching Day’ once a month in cooperation with the Gyeongsangbuk-do Crisis Worker Support Center, providing job services such as on-site interviews, metaverse indirect interviews, legal consultations, and customized job information to alleviate employment instability for crisis workers in the electrical and electronics industry.
▲Job Creation Based on Local Industry
In response to the crisis in the electronics industry caused by changes in the industrial structure, the city has been promoting a preemptive employment stabilization package support project from 2020 to 2024 by forming a consortium with Gyeongsangbuk-do, Gumi, Gimcheon, and Chilgok. The project aims to create a total of 8,332 jobs through three projects and ten detailed tasks.
The three projects are ① Technology advancement and management capability enhancement to respond to the electronics industry crisis, ② Customized job transition support services for crisis workers, and ③ Establishment of an integrated platform for people-centered jobs.
The Gumi-type job (LG-HY BCM) is a government win-win job that directly and indirectly employs 1,000 people and generates an employment inducement effect for 8,277 people. It is the first in the nation to attract direct investment jobs from a large corporation, and the LG-HY BCM cathode material plant was completed last August.
The city achieved results in attracting large-scale investment from an anchor company in the cutting-edge material field of secondary battery cathode materials, creating future-oriented new industries and quality jobs.
▲Providing Customized Jobs by Life Cycle
The city supports social participation and labor market entry for young people entering the job market for the first time. It operates the Youth Challenge Support Project, which pays allowances to participating youth, and the 1 Company-1 Youth Additional Employment Support Project, which provides interview activity expenses and employment congratulatory money. Through the Dream Connection Youth Cafe Support Project, it offers youth activity spaces linked with local cafes and companies and supports employment-related programs.
Additionally, to ease the burden of new youth hires for small and medium-sized enterprises, the city is conducting the Ministry of the Interior and Safety’s region-led youth job project, supporting wages and regional settlement incentives for young workers in 71 SMEs. The SME regular employee project provides a foundation for over 140 vulnerable groups, including youth, to convert from interns to regular employees.
For middle-aged and older adults, the city promotes the New Middle-Aged Social Contribution Activity Support Project, which supports participation allowances and activity expenses for social activities where retired professionals donate their talents. It also runs the New Middle-Aged SME and Small Business Part-Time Job Support Project, which supports wages for SMEs and small business owners hiring new middle-aged job seekers, aiming to resolve recruitment difficulties and provide employment opportunities for this age group.
For seniors, various elderly job and social activity support projects are underway to promote a healthy and active old age, including No-No (Old-Old) Care School Zone Safety Keeper, local environment improvement, senior center cleaning, public facility volunteering, and private company job placement.
▲Supporting Economic Activity Entry through Jobs for Vulnerable Groups
The public job projects supporting economic activity entry for vulnerable groups have contributed to local employment stability this year with about 190 participants in public work projects and about 130 in community job projects.
The city operates a Rural Workforce Brokerage Center to provide stable job supply in rural areas, supplying jobs to agricultural job seekers and manpower to farms lacking labor during peak farming seasons, supporting local farms.
In the ‘2023 Gumi City Administration Operation and Policy Satisfaction Survey’ conducted in September, the field with the greatest achievements in the past year was ‘Economy, Investment Attraction, Jobs’ at 30.5%, and the top priority task chosen by citizens was ‘Economic Recovery’ at 55%.
Based on citizens’ voices, the city plans to contribute to regional economic revitalization by continuously discovering and promoting customized local job projects along with attracting companies and national projects to expand jobs.
Mayor Kim Jang-ho said, “We will strive to revitalize the regional economy by providing customized local jobs where job seekers and companies visiting Gumi can coexist, and we will devote all our efforts to the new hope Gumi era.”
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