Samsung, Electronics and 19 Affiliates Open First Half Public Recruitment... Applications Accepted Until the 15th (Comprehensive)

Samsung is starting its 2023 first half open recruitment.

On the 8th, Samsung announced that it has posted recruitment notices for each affiliate and will begin the 2023 first half open recruitment process for new employees. The affiliates participating in this new employee recruitment include ▲Samsung Electronics ▲Samsung Display ▲Samsung Electro-Mechanics ▲Samsung SDI ▲Samsung SDS ▲Samsung Biologics ▲Samsung Bioepis ▲Samsung C&T ▲Samsung Engineering ▲Samsung Heavy Industries ▲Samsung Life Insurance ▲Samsung Fire & Marine Insurance ▲Samsung Securities ▲Samsung Asset Management ▲Hotel Shilla ▲Cheil Worldwide ▲S-1 ▲Samsung Welstory ▲Samsung Electronics Sales, totaling 19 companies.

Applicants wishing to apply can submit their applications through Samsung’s recruitment website, ‘Samsung Careers,’ from the 8th to the 15th. The first half open recruitment will proceed in the order of ▲Job Suitability Assessment (March) ▲Samsung Aptitude Test (April) ▲Interview Process (May) ▲Employment Health Checkup (June).

Samsung is the only major domestic group maintaining an open recruitment system for new employees to provide fair opportunities and hope for the future to young people. Samsung conducted the first open recruitment in Korea in 1957 and was the first domestic company to introduce open recruitment for female new employees in 1993.

In 1995, Samsung completely abolished discrimination by removing academic background from the eligibility criteria for job applications, which had been a customary practice. Particularly, through the 1995 personnel reform, Samsung integrated male and female open recruitment to select talent and proactively implemented a groundbreaking gender equality system that equally guaranteed overseas regional expert and expatriate dispatch opportunities to female employees.

Samsung Shows Commitment to Creating Youth Jobs Amid Difficult Conditions

Samsung’s first half open recruitment comes at a time when half of large companies have not finalized their new hiring plans for the first half due to the frozen job market. According to a survey conducted by the Federation of Korean Industries (FKI) through the polling agency Research & Research targeting the top 500 companies by sales, more than half of large companies (54.8%) responded that they have not established new hiring plans or will not hire new employees in the first half of 2023.

Among them, 39.7% of companies had no new hiring plans, and 15.1% had no new hiring at all. The FKI analyzed, "The proportion of companies not hiring in the first half of this year (15.1%) has increased 1.9 times compared to the same period last year (7.9%). This appears to be a response by companies to reduce or suspend new hiring to cut costs amid ongoing high inflation and high interest rates, supply chain instability, increased management uncertainty, and signs of prolonged economic recession."

Despite the uncertain economic situation, Samsung plans to maintain the scale of new hiring in line with Chairman Lee Jae-yong’s intention to provide more opportunities to young people and foster future talent.

Samsung hired more than 40,000 people over three years from 2018 to 2020, and in May last year announced plans to hire 80,000 new employees over five years from 2022 to 2026. While the usual hiring scale is about 10,000 people annually, Samsung is recruiting more personnel to create quality jobs for youth.

Chairman Lee said in 2021, "As a businessperson, I feel a heavy responsibility for not creating more jobs," and promised, "We will invest more in technologies that do not exist in the world and fields that only we can excel in, and create better jobs."

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