POSCO Chemical on the 5th of next month
Large-scale Career Recruitment
Recruitment of around 300 people from 2019 to 2022
Employees in their 20s ‘regarding 1 in 4’
Rechargeable battery company attracting young employees
“I’m a civil servant in a metropolitan city. The job announcement for POSCO Chemical has popped up, so I’d like to put it in. Please answer the intensity of work and salary.”
POSCO Chemical, a subsidiary of POSCO Group’s secondary battery materials, started a large-scale career recruitment. Public officials and employees of other large corporations are looking for career positions at the company, which hires 350 people this year alone. Blind, an anonymous app for office workers, as well as various communities, continue to ask regarding the interview process and treatment of this company. There is also a lot of interest in this company, which is growing rapidly with its 2030 generation of employees.
According to related industry sources on the 30th, POSCO Chemical started recruiting large-scale experienced employees from the 14th of this month to the 5th of August. Jobs in this recruitment field are broadly divided into ▲R&D ▲Safety ▲Production/Technology/Quality ▲Management Support. In R&D, basic material research and energy materials are researched, and for production technology quality, construction management, facility maintenance, and engineering jobs are selected. Management support selects jobs such as management strategy, financial planning, accounting, IR planning, etc. Applicants who have completed military service with a bachelor’s degree of 4 or more years or who are exempt from military service are eligible for application.
Recruitment is selected through a personality test, 1st practical interview, and 2nd executive interview. A POSCO Chemical official said, “For this large-scale recruitment, we want to actively select people with appropriate qualifications for each field rather than a target number of people.”
The company, which hired 449 people in 2019, 252 people in 2020, and 395 people last year, plans to hire regarding 350 people within this year through the recruitment of experienced workers. As the size of the recruitment increased, the number of employees of the company also increased significantly. At the end of last year, the number of employees stood at 2025, an increase of regarding 600 compared to 2018 (1,404). The proportion of young employees in their 20s also increased. Until 2018, the proportion of employees under the age of 30 stood at only 10.3%, but it surged from 17.8% in 2019 and 18.9% in 2020 to 27.0% last year. This means that 1 in 4 people is in their 20s.
This influx of manpower goes hand in hand with the rapid growth of the company. The company’s operating profit in the second quarter of this year was 55.2 billion won, up 55.1% from the same period last year. The performance far exceeded the market estimate (33 billion won) and, of course, is the highest ever. A large-scale supply contract with the company that makes secondary battery materials is also ongoing. The company announced on the 28th that it will supply 13 trillion won worth of cathode materials to General Motors (GM), the No. The total amount of cathode materials supplied to GM until this contract is expected to reach 22 trillion won.
Looking at the company evaluation written by a company official in the blind, he said, “The work-life balance is high and the status of POSCO Group is rising. On the other hand, another employee said, “There are a lot of urgent work, so it’s hard for the staff and there’s always a shortage.”
By Kim Ik-hwan, staff reporter lovepen@hankyung.com
