SEOUL, KOREA - KOTRA held the Job Fair for Foreign-Invested Companies 2013 in Seoul last month. A total of 110 foreign-invested companies, including Siemens, Nestle, Costco, Bosch, Google, 3M, Microsoft and 25 other companies on the Fortune Global 500 list, participated in the 8th annual event.
The companies interviewed job seekers to recruit 1,400 employees with and without work experience. Human resource managers of foreign-invested companies mentioned work experience as the first thing they consider when recruiting. They also noted that high language skills are recommended and that certificates are not necessary.
This year’s fair was the largest in KOTRA’s job fair history in terms of the number of participating companies and recruitment.