KT is opening recruitment for new college graduates, sharply increasing the number of hires and, for the first time, treating the ability to use artificial intelligence as a key assessment factor not only in AI development roles but also in general positions such as network operations and sales.
The company said it will accept applications from the 25th through the 7th of next month. Recruitment areas include network infrastructure operations, B2B consulting and sales, and B2C marketing and sales. KT doubled the number of new hires in these fields from a year earlier to strengthen its workforce at customer and business sites.
KT is weighing AI proficiency alongside job expertise as a main evaluation criterion in this round of hiring. Rather than simply testing knowledge of AI, the company plans to present situations that applicants could face in their actual work by role and to observe how they use AI to solve the problems. KT also said it will comprehensively assess the specifics of applicants' experience — what situations they faced in the past, what roles they took on, what they attempted to solve problems and what results they produced — along with the capabilities they demonstrated in the process.
Selected recruits will receive training and growth opportunities to help them understand customers and business sites and build expertise in their respective roles after joining. Building on that job expertise, they will also develop the ability to apply AI in their work, so they can become talent capable of solving problems on the ground and driving innovation on their own.
"In this round of hiring, we are comprehensively examining not only the expertise needed to perform the job but also the ability to apply AI to actual work," said Lee Sun-joo, executive vice president and head of KT's talent office. "We look forward to strong interest from people who understand the field and will grow into professionals at an AX Platform Company based on their own expertise."
