Seoul City Recruits 540 Participants for 'Future Youth Jobs' Gaining Experience in Promising New Growth Companies

Matching with 186 Companies in Online Content, Zero Waste, and Social Ventures

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 26th that it will recruit 540 young people to participate in the ‘Future Youth Jobs’ program, where they can gain work experience and enhance their job skills in three promising new growth sectors: online content, zero waste, and social ventures. Participants can choose from various job roles such as content planning, marketing, advertising, public relations, service, education, IT development, data, production, quality control, and management support.

Earlier, Seoul conducted a selection process for companies participating in the Future Youth Jobs program. In the company recruitment held in April, 377 companies expressed their intention to participate, and after document screening, on-site inspections, and interviews, a total of 186 companies were finally selected. To ensure participants can gain work experience in a stable environment, the selection process focused on job continuity, and the specificity of tasks and training.

The Future Youth Jobs program is open to any unemployed Seoul residents aged 19 to 39. Applications can be submitted from the 2nd to the 10th of next month through the ‘Youth Mongttang Information Center’. Selected youth will receive a monthly wage of up to 2.25 million KRW (based on Seoul’s living wage standard) until the end of December this year, along with coverage of the four major social insurances and job skill enhancement training.

To resolve mismatches between youth and companies, a sector-specific matching activation program will be conducted during the recruitment period. A webpage reflecting the status of companies and job applicants will be created, and both online and offline matching fairs will be held to provide applicants with as much company information as possible.

Additionally, to help youth improve their job competitiveness, the program offers job skill enhancement training, employment consulting, and career planning programs to actively support connections to employment after the program ends. In the second half of the year, special lectures by current company employees and participant performance sharing sessions will be held to continuously expand follow-up matching opportunities between youth and companies.

Kim Cheol-hee, head of the Seoul Future Youth Planning Team, said, “The ‘Future Youth Jobs’ program, designed considering industrial trend changes and new growth potential, will provide young people with opportunities to gain work experience in preferred fields.” He added, “Through this program, we will minimize mismatches between youth and companies to solve the job-seeking difficulties faced by young people and the talent shortages experienced by companies, and we will continue to discover and support high-growth potential sectors.”

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