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Financial investment industry to hire 1,000 people in the first half despite the recession

CI Financial Investment Association. Photo = Financial Investment Association

The Korea Financial Investment Association announced on the 20th that as a result of aggregating the recruitment plans of the financial investment industry this year, despite the difficult business conditions, 2112 people this year and 1035 people are scheduled to be employed in the first half alone .

Specifically, 64 full-time positions, accounting for 3% of the total number of employees, will be hired on the basis of competency, targeting high school graduates based on regular positions.

Financial investment firms are expected to recruit 58% of the 1,770 people in the first half of the previous year despite the difficult situation due to the decline in profitability due to the downturn in the capital market caused by global inflation and rate rises interest.

The investment industry is professional. It plans to hire more than 60 high school graduates, similar to the previous year, by conducting competency-based recruitment.

In particular, Hanyang Securities, which was selected as the best company for job creation in Korea in 2022 in recognition of its achievements such as signing an industry-university exchange agreement with specialized high schools and competency-based recruitment, is known to employ a large number of high school graduates this year as well.