[Young journalist Hojun Lee] Nine out of ten of the top 500 companies have been found to use artificial intelligence (AI) in human resources work, either officially or unofficially. Nearly half of job seekers also reported receiving help from AI while preparing for employment.

The Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Korea Employment Information Service announced these findings on the 28th as part of the 2025 Corporate Hiring Trends Survey.

The survey was conducted for about one month from August 1, targeting HR managers at the top 500 companies by revenue and 3,093 young employees across all 17 provinces and metropolitan cities nationwide.

Among the 396 responding companies, 86.7% reported using AI tools in human resources work, including both official and unofficial use.

A total of 163 companies have officially adopted AI tools for HR purposes, most commonly for recruitment (52.8%, multiple responses allowed).

This was followed by education and training (45.4%) and handling HR-related inquiries (45.4%).

Among young people, 42.3% reported that they had used AI tools while preparing for employment.

AI was most commonly used for writing personal statements and résumés (77.2%), followed by interview preparation (36.4%) and researching company information (31.0%).

Of these respondents, 86.6% said that using AI tools was helpful in preparing for employment.

Additionally, 61.8% of young employees reported using AI tools in their work.

Usage was highest in IT (87.7%) and marketing and public relations (87.0%), followed by research and development (79.5%), sales and sales management (68.0%), and management support (58.6%).

Young employees evaluated AI tool usage positively, saying it helped increase work processing speed (56.2%) and improve the quality of outcomes (24.5%).

Furthermore, 63.8% of young people supported companies operating AI-based hiring processes, and 23.7% reported that they had personally experienced AI-driven hiring procedures during their job search.

Lim Young-mi, Director General for Employment Policy at the Ministry of Employment and Labor, stated, “The government will do its best to support companies in using AI to recruit talent more fairly, and to provide young people with more opportunities to build AI-related job competencies.”

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