– A customized employment chance in the IT sector in Ireland 

On August 23, the provincial office held an orientation session for successful applicants for a customized employment program for the IT sector in Ireland. 

The fifteen successful applicants were selected out of the thirty-six. Each of them should pay 4 million won for the program, and the provincial office pays ten million won subsidy for the nine-month IT sector educational course at Institute of Technology Carlow, Carlow, Ireland. It is expected that more than half of the educatees will find jobs in that country. 

The program is carried out to give Korean youths opportunities to get employed in foreign countries and train skilled youths required for globalization of the nation’s businesses. On August 24, forty-two applicants will compete at an interview to select twenty who will be given an employment opportunity in Australia. 

It appears that applicants find conditions offered by the Gyeonggi Provincial Office’s program more attractive than those offered by similar programs of other institutions like Human Resources Development Service Korea. The trainees finishing the course in Ireland are to be recommended for IBM or Microsoft, and those in Australia are to be given opportunities at Coca Cola or Brisbane City Council. 

The applicants who attended the orientation session on August 23 will leave for Ireland on September 2 to attend the educational session. Those bound for Australia are scheduled to leave Korea on September 30 following the final selection on August 26. 

An official at the Gyeonggi Provincial Office said that the program is expected to be a great job opportunity for youths in the province, and that the selected trainees will be able to find better jobs back home after honing their skills in specialty areas and enhancing their language proficiency in an English speaking country.