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After graduation, college student no doubt enter the job market. But, employment experts note that most job seekers, especially recent graduates, make common mistakes in searching for jobs preparing resumes, and interviewing.

Student can begin networking long before graduation. Before deciding on a major, they should determine whether their courses and degree will prepare them for the work they want to do and whether they will be prepared to find a job when they graduate. Talking to or e-mailing people who have the job you want can provide valuable advice. Professional organizations, volunteer work, and internships can generate contacts with potential employers.

Developing networking and interviewing skills can help students find jobs and prepare them to make future career shifts. Outsourcing , changing government policies, shifts in the global economy, and constantly advancing technologies will force most of today's graduates to change careers, not jobs, four or five times in their lives.

Most people attend university in Korea for various reasons such as enhance knowledge, experience and so on. However, I doubt that these are not the only reason for enrollment; we attend college more opportunity in future. However, the job market in Korea is quiet challenge. There is no question that it is getting harder and harder for Korean college graduates to find job after graduation. It is a situation which has existed in Korea for several years and the problem is getting worse.

One reason has been a slow economy and another has to do with the fact that there are just not enough for increasing the numbers of student who are graduating from Korean every year. One result of this unhappy situation has been a big increase in the number of Korean college students going to overseas for language training.

The trend began in 1989, as soon as overseas travel for Korean become more globalized than ever, and it has continued ever since As the Korean economy is rapidly become intertwined with world market forces, Korean business have become more globalized than ever. And so the need for college graduates who have language skills is acute and will remain so for many years to come. Korean business give high priority to graduate language departments, particularly those who have well-developed foreign language skills. Along with the increasingly globalized world marketplace has come an urgent need for employees with ability to communicate with foreign clients and associate. So nowadays there is a flood of Korean college student going abroad to study language programs, most of them choosing to study in the United States, Europe or China. Language study outside is viewed by most students as a valuable tool for landing a job with a large firm or if they're lucky with a foreign company doing business in Korea. Foreign company offers better salaries and better benefits than Korean companies do. Job applicants who have completed overseas language courses have a distinct advantage student over other student. ( Kyuhan Bae and Chinsung Chung, 1997).

There is lots of discrimination in Korea especially in companies with education levels. People with safe future are most likely to be graduates from SKY (Seoul, Korea and Yonsei University) three best colleges in Korea. They have more opportunities offered compared to the ones from other colleges, and it is especially crucial for people who did not attend any college.

Korean male university graduates from an elite university get more advantage in the labor market. “The close relationships among family background, human capital, and university prestige mean that a highly select group of South Korean men acquire the best jobs” ( Sunhwa Lee and Mary C. Brinton ,1996,p 177). Professors and alumni will be more apt to help the most able students.

The Korean job market has always been tight, but today finding a job is harder than ever. Not able to find employment, many college grads are enrolling in 2-year technical colleges to get skill certificates. The lucky ones are going overseas for English training or to earn MBAs at foreign universities. Others are now driving taxis.

In my opinion, there are some reason why getting a job is difficult for college grads. First of all, Koreans have a high regard for education, so it is not natural that parent want their sons and daughters to have the very best education they could afford. That usually means graduation from a 4-year university. During the boom years, more and more colleges and universities were opened, and the number of college graduates soared. Now there is a “glut” of people who have college degrees, and there are not enough professional for all of them.

Second, due to the economic crisis to hit Korea and other Asian countries, businesses have been forced to restructure. This has meant firing many longtime employees and hiring very new corners. Angus McCabe (2006), a professor at University of Birmingham, since the economic crisis of 1997, many third sector organizations in Korea have initiate social job-creation projects. These form a key part of the Korean welfare-to-work system. (p.314)

Large employments still prefer to hire student who graduate from top-ranked universities, and most of them won't even consider the applications of students from lower-ranked schools, regardless of how talented they might be. Female students, who are normally passed over in favor of male applicants, have an even harder time finding jobs.

Most college graduates would rather work for large, well-known corporations than for medium- sized for smaller companies because they think that jobs with big corporations are more secure. As a result, too many job seekers are competing for a small number of positions. ( Jobs Tomorrow, 2006)

But all of the above problems have been overshadowed by the economic crisis. In order to bankruptcy, all most all Korean corporations, and many small companies too, have been forced to reduce the size of their work force. The result has been massive layoffs, and the job opportunities for college graduates have been reduced even more.

One trend which has grown out of this crisis is an increase in the number of college grads who are going overseas to earn MBA degrees. Although overseas study is too expensive and not an option for most, for the lucky few who can get the financial support, they see it as their only hope for survival in the increasingly competitive Korean job market.

In conclusion I would recommend that creating jobs for young Koreans should be the top priority of the next President of South Korea.

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