Recently, the Industrial Research Institute has published a study on the job value of the MZ generation. Over the past 12 years, 100,000 college graduates were surveyed on their perceptions of 16 job value factors, including income, working hours, aptitude, and job difficulty.
‘Personal development potential’, which was most cherished as a job value in the past, was pushed back, and income and working hours were pulled forward. ‘Personal Development Possibility’, which was the first priority, fell to 6th, income rose from 3rd to 1st, and working hours rose from 6th to 2nd.
Unlike this, in another opinion poll, the MZ generation ranked ‘company with a lot of overtime, such as going to work on weekends’ as the company they dislike the most. It means that a high salary and a good work-life balance are required for them to be evaluated as a god’s workplace.
As Hyundai Motor Company began recruiting production workers in 10 years, it garnered a lot of attention. It is observed that the recruitment website is paralyzed due to a rush of applicants for the 400 production positions to be recruited this year, and the number of final applicants is likely to be well over 100,000.
Production jobs at Hyundai Motor Company are called King Sanjik (king + production jobs), and there are also words such as ‘current car notification’ and ‘nationwide audition’. Also surprising is the news that Hyundai Motor is excited regarding recruiting production workers, including public officials, public corporations, and office workers at large corporations.
The average annual salary of Hyundai Motor’s executives and employees last year was 96 million won. The starting salary for production workers is 50 to 60 million won. It is true that a production position at Hyundai Motor Company is enviable enough to be compared to a lottery, such as high annual salary, retirement guarantee, and various welfare benefits.
However, to the older generation, their view of work, which puts more weight on annual salary than self-development, seems unfamiliar. It is because of the regret of the disappearance of traditional job values, which were loyal to the organization and more focused on the work than the individual. / Woo Jeong-gu (Editorial Writer)
