'Talent Matching Festival' Connecting Youth and Companies Held
Expected Role of Recruitment Matching Platform to Simultaneously Solve Labor Shortage and Job-Seeking Difficulties
Lee Young, Minister of SMEs and Startups, is delivering the opening speech at the '2022 Venture Startup Academy Festival' held on the 15th at Tipstown in Gangnam, Seoul.
View original image[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Cheol-hyun] The 'Venture Startup Academy,' a software (SW) talent development program led by venture companies and supported by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups (Minister Lee Young), held an 'Talent Matching Festival' on the 15th at Tipstown in Gangnam-gu, Seoul, with its first graduates.
Established to address the shortage of digital talent in the fields of SW and artificial intelligence (AI), the Venture Startup Academy is a talent development program that identifies hiring demands from member companies of six related associations under the Ministry of SMEs and Startups, including the Korea Venture Business Association and the Korea Women Venture Association, and links customized corporate training such as on-the-job training (OJT).
The Venture Startup Academy was planned last year by the Ministry of SMEs and Startups to resolve the difficulties companies face due to the level of SW talent produced by universities not meeting venture industry demands. Starting with about 1,600 trainees this year, the goal is to train 10,000 young people by 2027 and hire at least 50% of the trainees.
The Talent Matching Festival held that day connected prospective employees trained through the program with demand companies. At the recruitment promotion hall with participation from 145 venture companies, real-time briefings and video interviews were conducted both online and offline. A talk concert featuring Yanolja's Vice President Lee Jun-young and Alice's CEO Kim Jae-won was also held.
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Minister Lee Young stated, "The Ministry of SMEs and Startups plans to nurture 100,000 digital talents by 2027, and the core program among them is the Venture Startup Academy," adding, "As a developer who founded and built an SW company for 20 years, I will guide young people about to enter society toward promising SW development fields and connect them with venture companies' workforce demands to resolve job mismatches."
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