Korean Job Discussion Forums

[camaroclow]

Hello.

My best friend recently graduated with a Masters in Business, specializing in Human Resource Management from the University of Amsterdam. She would really like to obtain a job here in Seoul using her degree and area she studied.

Can anyone offer any insight on the best way to go about finding a job that is not an english teaching job. Are there recruiters for this type of thing, any forums i could check, etc...

Feel free to PM me if you have any information. It would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you.

[koreatimes]

For a business, non-English teaching job, I would seriously look into becoming fluent in Korean.

[camaroclow]

She has studied for 8 months when she lived here before. She is by no means fluent, but has a good understanding.

[ttompatz]

Look for the headhunter advertisement that usually runs in the Korea Times or K-Herald.

Otherwise she is pretty much on her own and there WILL be visa issues (assuming is is Dutch and not English). (the good think is that Koreans like the Dutch - just show a family link to Gus Hiddink and she is good as gold)

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[camaroclow]

Thanks for the info.

It looks like I left out a piece of information. She is actually from the states.

Thanks again.

[ed4444]

If she is looking for a job in HR in a Korean company, it would be extremely difficult.

For a start to entire concept of a HR team is still in its infancy in Korea and many companies don't even have a specialisted HR team (just some HR style tasks as part of the admin team).

And the recruitment side of HR would definitely require advanced Korean skills and i have never seen a non-Korean person in that role.

If they are determined to come to Korea maybe trying to find a job outside of their specialism might be the only option.

[camaroclow]

Thanks for all the info.

She is definatly not set on HR. She would be open to anything in the business, non teaching fields.

Thanks again for the info and help.

[DaHu]

Seems like there are more experienced people looking for the same things but it sounds like she needs much more Korean language skills, and specifically targeted for business.