A Samsung Group employee, behind, guides an applicant for the Global Samsung Aptitude Test through the test process in this October 2024 photo. Courtesy of Samsung Electronics

Samsung Group will begin officially hiring new employees for the first half of this year on Monday across its 16 key subsidiaries. Samsung Electronics, Samsung Display, Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Samsung SDI are among the companies accepting online applications throughout this week.

Following the application period, the group plans to evaluate and screen selected applicants through the Global Samsung Aptitude Test next month. Those who pass the test can expect interviews in May.

Samsung, on a separate track, is also recruiting those in Korea with related job experience and foreign students here with science and engineering backgrounds. The group said it is “making up a workplace where foreign talent can equally develop required skills.”

To secure workers with the skillsets it needs, Samsung has begun educating young people in Korea through its Samsung Software Academy for Youth (SSAFY) program. The group runs five campuses: Seoul, Daejeon, Gwangju, Busan and Gumi, North Gyeongsang Province. From 2019 until last year, 7,000 of the academy's graduates found jobs at 1,700 workplaces in and outside Korea.

Starting this year, SSAFY has added graduates of special-purpose technical high schools in Korea, known as meister high schools, to its list of students. SSAFY currently runs an internship program for meister school students with outstanding performances, whom the group later hires.

The group has also been paying attention to the country's annual K-Skills Competition where Koreans with various industrial skills compete for top positions. From 2007 until last year, Samsung Electronics, Samsung Electro-Mechanics and Samsung Display hired 1,600 participants from the competition.