About 87% of major corporations are using artificial intelligence (AI) in employee personnel work, it was found. About 75% of them said they plan to expand the use of AI tools in hiring going forward.

The Ministry of Employment and Labor (MOEL) and the Korea Employment Information Service on the 28th released the results of the "2025 hiring trends survey of corporations." The survey covered HR managers at the top 500 corporations by sales and 3,093 young employees across 17 metropolitan cities and provinces nationwide.

Job seekers fill out resumes at the 2025 Win-Win Cooperation Job Fair held at COEX Magok in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, on October 21. The fair features about 500 partners and 13 major corporate groups, offering practical support to young job seekers through programs that go beyond simple meetings with HR staff, including a corporate recruitment hall, a Ministry of Labor youth employment policy promotion hall, an AI small-but-strong enterprise-focused recruitment hall, and a career and job competency hall. /Courtesy of News1

Among responding corporations (396), those using AI tools for personnel work, including both official and unofficial use, reached 86.7% of the total. Among corporations that officially adopted AI tools for personnel work, the most common use was for "employee recruitment." That was followed by "education and training," and "handling HR-related inquiries."

Corporations using AI tools for employee recruitment numbered 86, or 21.7% of the total. It was found that they mainly use AI for ▲ AI-based aptitude or competency tests ▲ screening application documents ▲ using results in AI interviews and in-person interviews.

Corporations planning to introduce or expand AI tools in hiring work stood at 74.5% (295). The most cited reason for introducing or expanding the use of AI tools in hiring was "to make objective judgments based on data," followed by reasons such as ▲ to reduce the time required for hiring stages ▲ to reduce workload.

On the other hand, corporations without plans to introduce or expand use stood at 25.5% (101), with major reasons cited including ▲ lack of confidence in the fairness and objectivity of AI tools ▲ potential duplication of work because people must be involved in final decisions.

Young people also answered that they use AI for "job preparation" (42.3%) and "work" (61.8%). For job preparation, they most often used it for "writing self-introductions and resumes," while employees said AI helps with "improving work processing speed" and "improving the quality of deliverables."

The ministry plans within the year to prepare the "guidelines for using artificial intelligence in hiring" that organize ethical standards and step-by-step checklists needed when using AI in hiring. It is also pushing to revise the Fair Hiring Procedure Act to include matters such as prior notices related to AI hiring processes and prohibition of discrimination.

Im Yeong-mi, head of the Employment Policy Office at the ministry, said, "The government will do its best to support corporations so they can hire talent more fairly by using AI, and to offer young people more opportunities to build AI-related job competencies."

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