Large Corporations and Small Businesses Collaborate to Create 'Win-Win Jobs'

Recruitment of Companies Participating in the 'Large and Small-Medium Enterprise Win-Win Job Program'

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Cheol-hyun] The Small and Medium Business Corporation (Chairman Kim Hak-do, hereinafter referred to as SBC) announced on the 27th that it is recruiting large and medium-sized enterprises to participate in the 'Large and Small Business Win-Win Job Program.' This program provides customized job competency training to young job seekers jointly by large companies and their partner small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) and connects them to employment.

Since 2018, SBC has been operating the Large and Small Business Win-Win Job Program, which utilizes the excellent education and training infrastructure of large companies to provide job competency training to young job seekers and enable them to be employed by partner SMEs.

The eligible participants are domestic large or medium-sized enterprises that exceed the scope of SMEs as defined in Article 2 of the Framework Act on Small and Medium Enterprises. Large and medium-sized enterprises can recruit partner SMEs with hiring needs to form a project group and participate in the program. The project group must have excellent educational programs, a network of partner SMEs, and the capability to connect young job seekers to employment.

The project group identifies common educational needs of partner SMEs, develops training courses, and recruits young job seekers. SBC supports the project group with educational operation expenses such as development costs for customized training courses for partner SMEs, rental fees, and material costs. Additionally, before the training, SBC arranges pre-matching meetings between young job seekers and HR managers of partner companies, and after course completion, provides customized support to ensure actual employment. If employment matching is not successful, the project group and SBC’s Corporate Workforce Difficulty Center provide follow-up support to help job seekers find employment at other companies.

Over the past four years, 44 project groups and 1,514 partner SMEs have participated in this program, providing training to 3,411 job seekers and hiring 2,008 of them. Last year, nine project groups conducted job training in fields such as information and communication and semiconductors, connecting 581 young job seekers to employment at 440 partner SMEs. Eligibility for trainees is unemployed young job seekers aged 15 to 34 who wish to work at large company partner SMEs. Participants receive job training from large companies, support for employment matching before and after training, and a weekly training allowance of 100,000 KRW during the training period.

Ahn Jeong-gon, Head of the SBC Job Division, said, "The great advantage of the Large and Small Business Win-Win Job Program is that partner SMEs lacking their own educational programs or infrastructure can utilize the education and training infrastructure of large companies to hire excellent talent." He added, "SBC will do its best to foster a win-win cooperation atmosphere between large and small businesses and to resolve job mismatches."

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