Recently, corrupt hiring practices have been revealed in the finance sector and public enterprises, triggering public criticism and raising fairness issue over corporate hiring procedure.

In a survey conducted by an employment website, 75.9% of the 534 job seeking respondents felt that ‘hiring is unfair,’ indicating an urgent need for corrective measures.

Worse yet, youth unemployment has increased for four consecutive years, exceeding the 10% mark, and frustration is intensifying among young people over unfair hiring procedure. However, the reality is that it is difficult to guarantee fairness since the hiring procedure is characterized by “information asymmetry” where job offerers monopolize information.

Fairness in hiring examinations is a promise to the public; examination criteria should not be changed arbitrarily and job seekers should not be hired through unlawful means.

Accordingly, the Amendment aims to ensure transparency in a hiring process, guarantee the people’s right to know, and promote the rights and interests of job seekers by prescribing that upon request of a job seeker after the hiring decision has been finalized, a job offerer shall disclose the job seeker’s scores by assessment item, rankings by assessment process, and other results of the hiring examination (Article 10-2 newly inserted).

Upon request of a job seeker after the hiring decision has been finalized, a job offerer shall disclose the job seeker’s assessment item scores, assessment process rankings, and other results of the hiring examination (Article 10-2).