Employment24's integrated career certificate draws 14,514 users in first month

"Employment24," the government's integrated job platform, issued 14,514 career certificates within a month of launching a service that consolidates scattered career, qualification, education and training records into a single document. Starting in November, private job platforms will also be able to pull career data from Employment24 to help users write their resumes.

The Ministry of Employment and Labor said Thursday it held a meeting with business associations and private job platforms at the Institute for Vocational Competency Evaluation in Jung-gu, Seoul. The meeting focused on ways to expand the use of the integrated career certificate in hiring.

The integrated career certificate service allows users to check information scattered across multiple agencies in one place on Employment24. This includes employment insurance enrollment records, national technical qualifications and vocational training completion data. Users can select only the information they need and either receive it as a certificate issued under the labor minister's name or have it automatically entered into an Employment24 resume.

Employment24 issued a total of 14,514 integrated career certificates between its launch on July 29 and Aug. 28. During the same period, the resume-writing support feature helped users complete 104,109 job applications on Employment24, accounting for 44.3 percent of all applications filed.

In a survey of 462 users, 89.6 percent cited the ability to check records scattered across multiple agencies in one place as the service's biggest advantage.

Employers, too, can check an applicant's career, qualifications and education and training history from a single certificate. Whether a submitted certificate was actually issued through Employment24 can be verified using its issuance number or QR code.

At Thursday's meeting, the ministry proposed that companies specify the integrated career certificate as an accepted document for verifying work experience in job postings. It also urged them to formally recognize the certificate as proof of career history. Officials also discussed introducing the service to member companies of business associations and linking it with the automatic resume-writing functions of private job platforms.

Starting in November, the ministry will provide an application programming interface, or API, that lets private job platforms retrieve users' career data from Employment24 with their consent. The move is intended to ease the burden on private platforms of individually linking with multiple agencies. It also aims to support the development of new job-search services that make use of public career data.

Currently, Employment24 provides access to 24 types of career information, including employment insurance enrollment history, participation in public job programs, military service records, national technical qualifications and vocational training completion data.

The ministry plans to expand the range of linked information by 2027 to include freelance and overseas work experience, certified private qualifications and Korean History Proficiency Test results. It will also add university education records and language test scores.