During their recruitement process, Korean companies tend to discriminate candidates based on their appearance

[ndethore]

Issue

It is common practice for Korean companies to requires a picture on their applicant resume. The picture is then used to select candidates for interview people based on their appearance instead of their actual skills.

Proposed Solution

Create a label that would promote equal access to interviews. Companies could then display a logo on their website and use it for PR.

[corneadoug]

The recruitment process in Korea might have way more things to change:

• Non-paid internship that some call University Student Supporters --> Easy work force for company, that try to make people think working for free is worth it in their resume considering the current economy
• Discrimination against women (probably the biggest one). About marital status, pregnancy rules, appearance, age. It can be hard for a women to find job as meaningful and paid as their men coworkers, and keep it. While the government try to make the natality rate increase, it seems companies are more prone to 'fire' women once married because of the chance of having a child.
• The recruitment of unqualified applicants. The current economy is not good, and companies are probably not helping by recruiting anybody for any job. Being hired is getting more difficult as everybody apply for the same companies/jobs and the university majors/abilities seems to be of no use.

It seems Samsung it trying a change: http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/national/2014/11/05/42/0302000000AEN20141105003400320F.html

[ghost]

One of the concerns raised about this project was how to get buy-in from company HR and legal depts.

I spoke with a friend who works for a large international company. The regional office head is receptive to western-style business practices (they adopted Agile Scrum even though they're not a software shop) and so might be receptive to this idea. We'll talk further next week to explore this project's viability.

-Dave