Is Songpa-gu's On-site Job Counseling Achieving a 10% Employment Rate Success?

Songpa-gu Addresses Job Blind Spots in the Second Half of the Year through ‘Visiting Job Counseling Booths’

▲ One-on-one employment counseling by professional career counselors ▲ Job seeker registration and job information provision ▲ Customized employment linkage, etc.

Songpa-gu (Mayor Seo Gang-seok) announced that its operation of ‘Visiting Job Counseling Booths,’ which provides employment counseling to residents such as job seekers who find it difficult to visit the Job Center, has received great responses in the second half of the year following the first half.

The ‘Visiting Job Counseling Booth’ is a project where professional career counselors directly visit job seekers who have difficulty visiting the Songpa-gu Job Center due to time and location constraints or lack of information, providing customized counseling services. Starting this year, the service has expanded beyond community centers to multi-use facilities to actively discover latent job-seeking demand and assist job seekers in employment linkage.

The district operates the ‘Visiting Job Counseling Booth’ at a total of four locations until the end of December: Wirye-dong Community Center, Bangi 1-dong Community Center, Songpa Sports and Culture Center, and Songpa Geulmaru Library.

In particular, the counseling booth operated at the Songpa Sports and Culture Center located in Geoyeo-dong is very popular. It is well received because it is easily accessible to various groups of job seekers, including middle-aged and older adults such as housewives and seniors who were unaware of the Songpa-gu Job Center or found it difficult to visit the center.

In the first half of the year, employment guidance and counseling were provided to 154 job seekers, 79 of whom registered as job seekers at the Job Center. Customized information such as job projects and employment guidance tailored to the characteristics of job seekers was provided. Through this, 15 residents successfully found and secured their desired jobs.

The district supports residents using the counseling booths with one-stop services including ▲ one-on-one employment counseling by professional career counselors ▲ job seeker registration and job information provision ▲ employment linkage. Additionally, various vocational training program information to enhance residents’ personal capabilities will also be provided.

Furthermore, the district operates the KakaoTalk channel ‘Songpa-gu Job’ to provide an online service where job seekers can easily access job information anytime and anywhere. By adding ‘Songpa-gu Job’ as a friend on KakaoTalk, users can regularly receive notifications about private and public recruitment news, customized job projects, and job facility guidance.

Going forward, the district plans to expand the operation of the ‘Visiting Job Counseling Booth’ through collaboration with specialized job facilities for people with disabilities, women, seniors, and others.

Seo Gang-seok, Mayor of Songpa-gu, stated, “We hope that operating job counseling booths that directly visit residents’ living sites will serve as a stepping stone to employment success for middle-aged job seekers,” and added, “We will continue to develop quality jobs tailored to individuals’ abilities and aptitudes and discover and expand customized support policies so that more residents can benefit.”

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