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[Key Issue Briefing]
■ 18 Samsung Group Companies Begin First-Half Open Recruitment: Eighteen Samsung Group affiliates began their first-half open recruitment process, accepting applications through "Samsung Careers" from the 10th to the 17th. With Chairman Jay Y. Lee having pledged to expand hiring at a Blue House meeting, and with the semiconductor super cycle driving major affiliates' earnings toward all-time highs, observers expect annual hiring to well exceed 12,000.
■ Nvidia Steps Up Efforts to Secure Korean Engineering Talent: Nvidia has established joint research labs with KAIST and Seoul National University, offering internships to at least 10 researchers each year and opening a path for top talent to be hired as full-time employees. Analysts say practical, hands-on research opportunities in cutting-edge fields such as physical AI and robotics have effectively opened up for Korean science and engineering job seekers as well.
■ Online Unified Career Certificate Service Launches on the 29th: The government will launch a service on the 29th that consolidates career, qualification, training, and education information in one place to issue a nationally certified unified career certificate. The move is expected to significantly reduce the administrative burden on job seekers and workers who previously had to visit multiple institutions to obtain documents.
[News of Interest to College Student Job Seekers]
1. Samsung's 18 Companies Start New Graduate Recruitment; 12,000 to Be Hired This Year
Key Summary: Eighteen Samsung Group affiliates began their recruitment process, accepting applications for first-half regular open recruitment from the 10th to the 17th. Manufacturing, financial, and IT affiliates including Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), Samsung C&T, Samsung Biologics, and Samsung SDS all participated, while the software and design job categories will select candidates through competency tests and portfolio reviews instead of the GSAT. With Chairman Jay Y. Lee having personally expressed his intention to expand hiring, and with Samsung Electronics and Samsung Electro-Mechanics expected to post all-time high earnings amid expanded AI infrastructure investment, the outlook that hiring will exceed the annual target of 12,000 is gaining momentum. The average annual salary of Samsung Electronics employees is estimated at about 150 million won as of last year, and the regular open recruitment system, which has continued for 70 years, is regarded as offering predictable employment opportunities in the first and second halves.
Key Summary: Nvidia has established a joint research lab with KAIST to jointly develop domestic industry-specialized AI models, large-scale AI models optimized for Korean, and agentic AI models. The lab will support at least 10 KAIST researchers each year and offer internships, and a path has been created for top talent to move on to full-time research positions at Nvidia. With Seoul National University, Nvidia will jointly develop an AI education curriculum and provide edge AI computing modules to its robotics lab free of charge, while also discussing plans to incorporate its Deep Learning Institute (DLI) courses into mechanical engineering classes. As a Seoul National University professor conveyed that Korean employees enjoy a strong reputation at Nvidia's headquarters, analysts say this collaboration could become a practical channel leading not just to research but to employment at a global Big Tech company.
[Reference News for College Student Job Seekers]
Key Summary: The government will launch a service on the 29th that consolidates career, qualification, training, and education information scattered across various institutions to issue a nationally certified career certificate at once. It is a case in which the Youth Future Advisory Group of the Presidential Secretariat directly proposed to the government the difficulties job seekers face in proving their careers, and this was reflected in actual policy. As administrative procedures that required visiting multiple institutions to obtain documents are simplified into an online one-stop process, a path has opened for short-term job training and training records to be recognized as official career experience. Analysts expect that the more job seekers have accumulated diverse experiences such as part-time jobs, internships, and vocational training, the more they can concretely prove their careers through this service, directly helping to strengthen their competitiveness in document screening.
4. Building AI Shipyards and Jointly Developing U.S. Transport Ships; MASGA Gets on Track
Key Summary: Shipbuilding Big 3 including HD Korea Shipbuilding & Offshore Engineering, Hanwha Ocean (042660.KS), and Samsung Heavy Industries signed on to 12 cooperation projects, using the opening of the Korea-U.S. Shipbuilding Cooperation Center in Washington, D.C. as a springboard. Projects including building AI-based smart shipyards, designing global strategic transport ships, constructing LNG bunkering vessels, and jointly developing unmanned surface vessels are being launched simultaneously, with total cooperation investment reaching 150 billion dollars. Digital transformation and technical workforce training are being pursued in tandem, including the realization of physical AI shipyards and the establishment of VR/AR-based welding and painting training centers. Analysts say this is a phase in which AI-convergence manufacturing capabilities are emerging as a core competitive edge for job seekers preparing for technical positions in the shipbuilding and marine sectors.
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