Daejeon City Recruiting Companies and Youth for 'Youth Intern Support Project' Participation

Provided by Daejeon City

[Asia Economy (Daejeon) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] Daejeon City is recruiting companies and youth to participate in the Youth Intern Support Project.

The city announced on the 11th that it will publicly recruit 140 participants for the "2023 Youth Intern Support Project."

The project is implemented to provide youth with industrial field internship opportunities to increase their chances of regular employment and to help local companies smoothly secure manpower.

Eligible participants are small and medium (including mid-sized) enterprises located in Daejeon with five or more regular employees, research institute companies in the Daedeok Special Zone, and unemployed youth aged 18 to 39 residing in Daejeon.

The project is conducted by the Daejeon Job Support Center, which recommends youth interns to companies based on the applicants' desired fields and aptitudes, and companies autonomously select interns from the recommended youth.

Selected youth will work at the respective companies for three months.

The city supports participating companies with a monthly wage of 1,687,500 KRW for youth interns' labor costs for three months, and companies pay wages (including city support funds) that comply with the minimum wage and enroll youth interns in the four major social insurances. However, companies participating in the project must not receive separate subsidies from the government or other sources.

Youth interns will receive an additional monthly transportation allowance of 50,000 KRW starting this year, separate from their wages.

Applications are accepted on an ongoing basis through the Daejeon Job System until the budget is exhausted.

For more detailed information about the project, please visit the websites of Daejeon City Hall, Daejeon Job and Economic Promotion Agency, and Daejeon Job Support Center.

Kim Young-bin, Director of the Job and Economy Bureau of Daejeon City, said, "The regular employment conversion rate of youth interns from previous projects is about 60%. Through the Youth Intern Support Project, the city will strive to provide job seekers with field experience opportunities and lay the foundation to resolve manpower shortages in small and medium enterprises."

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