LS Group Confirms Second Half New Graduate Recruitment... "From Briefing to Entire Hiring Process, 'Ontact'"

Scenes from the 'LS Cable & System, E1 Online Job Concert' scheduled to be posted in September on LS Group's official YouTube channel 'LS TV'

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[Asia Economy Reporter Ki-min Lee] Amid the employment market freezing due to the impact of the novel coronavirus infection (COVID-19), LS Group announced on the 2nd that it will publicly recruit new employees for the second half of the year starting from the 14th of this month. To prevent the spread of COVID-19, LS Group plans to conduct all recruitment briefings and selection processes online.

LS Group has conducted public recruitment of new employees every year in the second half, and this year plans to hire new employees at four affiliates: LS Cable & System, LS Electric, LS-Nikko Copper, and E1. In the case of E1, recruitment will be held in October considering winter internships.

The recruitment scale is OOO people, similar to last year, and including occasional recruitment, the annual total is about 1,000 people, according to LS Group. The positions open include sales, production, quality, design, support, and research and development (R&D), targeting graduates of four-year regular universities (including graduate schools) and those expected to graduate by February next year.

This year’s LS Group public recruitment features the introduction of an ‘Ontact (online + face-to-face)’ recruitment method, which goes beyond non-face-to-face (Untact) communication due to the spread of COVID-19, enabling more active communication online.

First, the recruitment fairs previously hosted by universities will be converted online, participating in job and recruitment counseling sessions through chat and video calls.

Additionally, LS itself will hold online job and recruitment briefings. The so-called ‘Brunch Meeting’ and ‘Online Gathering’ are online job and recruitment briefings where LS Group recruitment officers and new employees invite about 60 job seekers online to enjoy brunch (in the morning) and chicken and beer (in the afternoon) delivered to their homes in advance, conducting a talk show-style Q&A session about employment in a relaxed atmosphere.

Employees plan to display the faces of about 30 job seekers on a studio stage screen and answer employment-related questions on the spot, creating an atmosphere as if they were together in person.

Final selection will be made through document screening, artificial intelligence (AI) competency tests, practical interviews, and executive interviews. This year, all recruitment processes including counseling, competency tests, and practical interviews will be conducted online.

Meanwhile, LS supports various welfare benefits such as medical expenses for employees and their families, housing funds, children’s education expenses, congratulatory and condolence support, birthday/wedding anniversary gifts, and more. In particular, LS strives to provide positive employee experiences and growth visions through support for advanced degree programs and mid- to long-term education courses, bold promotion appointments, enhanced mentoring systems, job rotation systems, and office environments comparable to IT companies in Silicon Valley, USA.

To resolve job mismatches for new employees, LS offers opportunities for job reassignment through in-depth interviews after one year of employment and supports work-life balance through programs such as Work Diet and PC-off systems.

Especially since last year, LS has focused on emotional communication with job seekers and new employees by providing a one-night, two-day healing camp before joining, offering thank-you gift sets including Pocheon cookies and chocolates to job seekers visiting the interview site, and sending congratulatory letters signed by the CEO, pure gold business card cases, flower baskets, and health supplements to the families of successful candidates.

Joon-young Cho, Deputy Head of LS Group’s HR Team, said, “We are planning Ontact promotional events through various online channels to provide some comfort to job seekers struggling with employment due to COVID-19 and to enhance understanding of LS Group and the overall recruitment process,” adding, “Although it is difficult for many job seekers, I hope they gather strength a little more and confidently enter society as a reward for their efforts.”

LS Group Recruitment Poster

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