- Government to support work-life balance and spread competency-based hiring
The government announced the release of its ‘Competency-based Hiring Guidebook’ on 29 March and recommended that companies stick to the following guidelines when it comes to recruiting: ▴not require irrelevant personal information and credentials, ▴provide detailed job descriptions in advance, ▴conduct organized interviews including presentations and group discussion, etc.
[ Table 1 ] Summary of Main Points in Competency-based Hiring Guidebook
| ▴ Chapter 1: Introducing the competency-based hiring system in order to secure suitable talent and improve corporate image
▴ Chapter 2: Utilizing the system in job analysis, identifying/evaluating core competencies ▴ Chapter 3: Developing a competency-based hiring system – Design: definition of job descriptions and competencies, standard form of job description, design of recruitment process, etc. – Hiring: planning and promoting hiring, hiring announcements, management of applicant documents – Screening: examining applicant documents, written tests and interviews |
Meanwhile, the government held a ‘Private-Public Consultative Meeting on Working Culture’ and announced its measures to improve the working culture.
[ Table 2 ] Summary of Measures to Improve the Working Culture
| Main Points | |
| Measures to help companies who improve their own working culture | ▴ Consulting provided for work-life balance including on development of flexible working hour systems (for workplaces with 500 or fewer employees)
▴ Improve working conditions by conducting labor inspections in the IT, gaming and publishing industries in which long working hours are commonplace ▴ Companies with outstanding working cultures awarded |
| Extending use of flexible working hour systems | ▴ Financial assistance (up to KRW 5.2 million, USD 4,670) per year for one employee when allowing flexible working hours; up to KRW 600,000 (USD 530) per month for one employee when implementing a selective working hours system, etc.)
▴ Benefits for SMEs reducing their working hours and hiring more employees (financial subsidies of KRW 9.6 million (USD 8,460) a year for two years, etc.) ▴ Final Friday of every month designated as ‘Family Day’ – Employees work 30 minutes longer Monday ~ Thursday that week and leave work 2 hours earlier on Family Day (to be implemented in the public sector from May) |