Hyundai Motor Group will hire 7,200 new employees this year to boost the national economy and create jobs for young people. Next year, it is considering expanding the youth hiring to 10,000 people.
Hyundai Motor Group's new youth hires will focus on future new business areas such as electrification and accelerating the shift to SDV (software-defined vehicles). It will also expand personnel for developing competitive new models, strengthening quality and safety management, diversifying global operations, and increasing brand value.
Hyundai Motor Group will also expand opportunities such as youth internships and industry-academia cooperation so young people can grow. This is aimed at helping young people gain practical skills through job experience before taking their first step into society and leading to employment.
Hyundai Motor Group plans to greatly expand the scale of youth internships so young people can build the experience needed for employment. Hyundai Motor Group runs youth internship programs at major group companies across automobiles, parts, steel, construction, advertising and finance, providing in-depth work experience in various fields such as research and development, design, business support and IT. It plans to greatly expand the youth internship program, now operating at about 400 people, to about 800 people by 2026, and will actively hire outstanding talent.
Industry-academia cooperation linked to group businesses will continue.
Hyundai Motor Group has been running customized industry-academia cooperation programs linked to university education since 2016 so talented people with growth potential can develop into experts. Currently, at seven domestic universities about 200 young talents are selected as research scholarship students with hiring in mind and university-based contracted departments are established and operated. The program is structured so participants can directly experience development work processes performed in the field, and about 550 young talents have completed the training from 2023 to the present.
It will continue to operate recruitment-linked training programs to discover and nurture mobility software talent early to accelerate the shift to SDV.
A Hyundai Motor Group official said the group plans to continuously provide opportunities so young people can pursue their dreams while strengthening competitiveness in future businesses centered on Korea through large-scale domestic job creation.
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