Seoul City Seeks Companies in New Growth Sectors to Provide Work Experience for Youth

Recruitment of 190 Companies for 'Future Youth Jobs'

The Seoul Metropolitan Government announced on the 9th that it will create 500 new jobs this year through the 'Future Youth Jobs' project, specialized in new growth industries.

'Future Youth Jobs' is a project that matches companies and young job seekers to work for six months in new growth sector companies?such as the content industry and zero waste?that are expected to see increased job demand in the future and are highly preferred by youth but difficult to access, allowing them to gain experience.

Entering its second year this year, 'Future Youth Jobs' plans to select and match 500 young job seekers with 190 companies across three sectors (online content, zero waste, social ventures), considering industries that will lead future changes.

Youth can learn on-site while simultaneously receiving job training that companies actually require during the same period. Especially this year, a one-week intensive training will be provided before youth are placed in companies to enhance their work adaptability. This support aims to increase youth competitiveness through skill enhancement and supply companies with prepared talent, contributing to resolving job mismatches between companies and youth.

This year, the main focus is on reducing mismatches between companies and youth, aiming to increase satisfaction for both young job seekers and participating companies, as well as the sustained employment rate after the project ends. To achieve this, three improvement tasks will be implemented: ▲ expanding the cooperative system for discovering promising companies and matching young talent through agreements with specialized public institutions, ▲ extending the selection period for companies and participants and strengthening mutual information sharing to alleviate information asymmetry and reduce mismatches, ▲ and enhancing policy coordination among Seoul city departments to provide follow-up support so that youth who are not selected can still succeed in employment.

Once participating companies are confirmed, 500 young job seekers will be recruited and selected by May and matched with companies. Selected youth will receive pre-job training and be deployed to each participating company’s site starting in June.

Kim Cheol-hee, head of the Seoul Future Youth Planning Team, said, “The Future Youth Jobs project, which began last year and showed high satisfaction, is now entering its second year. We have improved the project by reflecting the voices of participating companies and participants, so we expect it to be a project essential to both companies and youth.” He added, “We will respond sensitively to youth demand for jobs and do our best to provide work experience and sustainable jobs in new industry sectors needed by youth.”

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