Expansion of 'Saeil Center' Supporting Employment for Gyeongdannyeo... Remote Learning Available from May

Operating 744 Courses for Over 11,000 Participants This Year
Expanding High Value-Added, Customized Corporate, and Specialized Technical Courses

[Asia Economy Reporter Han Jinju] The Ministry of Gender Equality and Family will expand the vocational education and training programs at the Women New Work Centers in 2021. Starting in May, an online remote learning system will be introduced, and employment support services in collaboration with related ministries will also be operated.

On the 11th, the Ministry announced that it will operate 744 courses targeting about 11,000 career-interrupted women through 158 Women New Work Centers (hereafter Saeil Centers) nationwide.

Saeil Centers provide comprehensive employment support services such as employment counseling, vocational education and training, internships, job placement, and follow-up management for career-interrupted women and others. As of March, a total of 158 centers are in operation.

This year, Saeil Centers will expand promising professional vocational training courses that respond to post-COVID-19 changes through online remote training, and that attract various age groups, including high value-added, company-customized, and specialized technical courses.

The Ministry will newly introduce high value-added courses, specialized courses for special-type workers, and professional workforce development and employment linkage courses involving multiple ministries.

The high value-added courses will be expanded to include training in digital new technology fields such as big data experts, pharmaceutical bio molecular diagnostics, and 3D printing modeling experts, operating a total of 55 courses this year. Specialized technical courses will include 109 courses such as intellectual property (IP) strategy experts, web design, and web publishing.

Company-customized courses, which educate job skills tailored to industrial sites in collaboration with companies and support employment linkage, will also be operated. There are 156 company-customized courses including tax office clerks, legal office clerks, and carbon industry manufacturing workforce training. Additionally, courses for social service jobs such as office management, entrepreneurship courses, and courses for marriage immigrant women will be offered.

Specialized vocational education and training will be provided for unpaid leave workers, special-type workers, and self-employed persons who have closed or suspended their businesses due to the prolonged COVID-19 employment crisis, supporting job changes and career transitions. Specialized courses for unpaid leave workers include online marketing, digital informatization instructor, and promotional video expert training courses.

From May, specialized educational content and customized services for career-interrupted women will also be provided. The 23 educational contents consist of entrepreneurship, job aptitude, job preparation, and general job skills. A remote learning system will be established to enable interactive training and management of trainees in a non-face-to-face manner.

Excellent training courses from Saeil Centers will be developed into content so that career-interrupted women can take lectures online anytime. Saeil Centers plan to offer blended training that combines face-to-face on-site learning with non-face-to-face methods, conducting theory online and practical training offline.

The Ministry will collaborate with related ministries to strengthen the professional employment capabilities of career-interrupted women by supporting integrated employment support services including vocational education and training, internships and job placement, and employment retention follow-up management. Specialized vocational education and training will be operated in fields under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Science and ICT (software), Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (culture and arts), Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy (industrial technology), and Korean Intellectual Property Office (patents), and Saeil Centers will connect graduates to related jobs considering their career and major.

Applications for Saeil Center vocational education and training can be made online via the Saeil Center representative phone number or website. Any woman wishing to find employment can apply, and if selected as a trainee, full training fees and transportation expenses will be supported.

Jeong Young-ae, Minister of Gender Equality and Family, said, "We will faithfully implement tasks included in the future promising job sectors and various vocational education and training operations, as well as COVID-19 female employment crisis response and recovery measures, and strive to expand women's participation in economic activities in the changing labor market."

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