The recruitment market is 'popular'...If you have this certificate, you'll get preferential treatment.

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The national technical qualifications that received the most preferential treatment in the recruitment market last year were "trickle-driving technicians" and "Korean food cooking technicians."

On the 27th, the Korea Human Resources Development Service announced the results of an analysis of the employment market utilization of national technical qualifications based on the job announcement of the public sector employment information portal "Employment 24".

As a result, 127,612 (7.62%) out of the total 1,674,560 job postings of "Employment 24" last year set or gave preferential treatment to national technical qualifications as hiring requirements.

Number of recruitment announcements by national technology qualification category in 2023 / Korea Human Resources Corporation

Among them, 59,976 employment cases of "skill worker" qualifications were the highest, followed by 36,847 articles, 19,773 industrial articles, and 9,434 services.

Looking at the top 20 items among the qualifications for preferential hiring requirements, "trickle-driving technicians" accounted for the most with 17,108 cases (13.4%).

It was followed by "Korean food cooker" with 13,361 cases (10.5%), and "electric driver" with 6,910 cases (5.4%).

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team