Samsung launches second-half graduate recruitment, maintaining Korea’s only regular hiring programme among the four major groups

Samsung is launching large-scale graduate recruitment for the second half of the year, with applications open from September 8 to 15 through its recruitment website.

Nineteen affiliates, including Samsung Electronics, Samsung C&T, Samsung Biologics, Samsung Display, Samsung SDI and Samsung SDS, will take part. Candidates will undergo job suitability assessments in September, the online Samsung Global Aptitude Test in October, followed by interviews and health checks in November.

Samsung says it has maintained regular graduate recruitment for 70 years, since 1957. As most companies have abandoned mass recruitment in favour of rolling hiring, Samsung remains the only one among Korea’s four major groups, Samsung, SK, Hyundai Motor and LG, to retain the system.

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Job creation is a company’s duty.

The company has linked the hiring programme to its effort to secure advanced technology talent as the semiconductor market recovers and demand for artificial intelligence expands. Recruitment in semiconductors could increase from previous years as the sector enters a “supercycle” driven by strong global AI demand.

Samsung also plans to continue expanding domestic investment and youth hiring in AI, biotechnology, batteries and displays. Software applicants will take a practical coding test, while design applicants will submit portfolios instead of taking the GSAT. The company said its open, ability-based recruitment approach would continue, including its previous moves to establish graduate recruitment for women in 1993 and remove academic restrictions entirely in 1995.

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Our performance has improved significantly, so this year we have gained room to hire a little more.