Focused Youth Job Matching... Seoul City Opens 'Youth Job Matching Enhancement Dedicated Office' on the 20th

Matching 1,000 Young Job Seekers with Preferred Employers by Year-End → Goal to Employ Over 700 through Customized Matching

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Cheol-young] Seoul City announced on the 19th that it will establish a ‘Dedicated Desk for Strengthening Youth Job Matching’ at the Janggyo-dong Youth Job Center to alleviate the mismatch of jobs among young people, and will start the first consultations from the 20th.

The newly opened dedicated desk plans to go beyond the existing job center’s recruitment and job-seeking consultation and referral services by actively discovering and recruiting hiring companies and young job seekers to provide customized job matching services.

The city explained that despite efforts through various methods such as the Youth Employment Academy and selection of Seoul-type small and strong enterprises to nurture talent desired by companies and create a work-life balance environment, job mismatches are still intensifying due to information asymmetry between job seekers and hiring companies. To resolve this, a specialized institution with know-how in job matching services has been selected to open and operate the ‘Dedicated Desk for Strengthening Youth Job Matching.’

The core function of the ‘Dedicated Desk for Strengthening Youth Job Matching’ is to directly recruit young job seekers and youth-preferred companies and connect them to employment. To this end, by the end of the year, customized recruitment information will be provided to 1,000 young job seekers aged 15 to 39 residing in Seoul, targeting startups, global companies, and new growth 4th industry-based companies preferred by youth, aiming to match over 700 people with jobs.

In particular, among the 1,000 young job seekers, 500 will be prioritized for employment linkage from those unemployed participants in Seoul City’s job projects such as the Youth Employment Academy and Seoul-type Youth Intern Job Camps. Considering the characteristics of each participating project and job fields, personalized recruitment information will be provided, and continuous management until employment linkage is expected to enhance the effectiveness of Seoul City’s job projects.

Meanwhile, the hiring companies participating in the dedicated desk will mainly consist of promising companies preferred by youth, such as startups, global companies, and new growth 4th industry-based companies, and company visits will be conducted to provide various corporate information.

Six matching specialist consultants will be stationed at the dedicated desk to provide a one-stop demand-tailored employment support service for young job seekers who come with employment concerns, including individual competency diagnosis, intensive consulting (job exploration, resume, interview consulting, etc.), company visits (providing company information, job experience, etc.), and intensive matching.

Park Dae-woo, Acting Director of Seoul City’s Economic Policy Office, said, “Through the operation of the Dedicated Desk for Strengthening Youth Job Matching, we will actively recruit and discover young job seekers and youth-preferred companies, and connect unemployed participants of youth job projects to employment to alleviate the mismatch of youth jobs.”

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