Korea Labor Foundation to expand midcareer job training for auto diagnostics nationwide

A midcareer employment support program in the automotive diagnostics field, previously limited to Gyeonggi Province, will be expanded nationwide. The initiative will provide training for automotive diagnostic evaluators through midcareer job centers across the country and connect midcareer job seekers with companies in need of such workers.

The Korea Labor Foundation announced Monday that it signed a memorandum of understanding with the Korea Automobile Diagnosis Guarantee Association on Saturday at Gyeonggi University of Science and Technology to advance what it called a "wide-area specialized employment service." The two organizations agreed to build on a midcareer employment support program they had jointly operated in Gyeonggi Province and extend their cooperation nationwide.

Under the agreement, the foundation and the association will support automotive diagnostic evaluator training and educational infrastructure at midcareer job centers across the country. They will also work together to identify corporate hiring demand on a national scale, help midcareer job seekers find employment, and share information to promote the program.

The foundation has been developing wide-area employment support services tailored to industry-specific hiring needs since last December, starting with the healthcare sector and later expanding into shipping, integrated resort operations and elevator maintenance.

"The core of the wide-area specialized service lies in closely connecting the jobs and talent that the field actually needs, transcending regional boundaries," Korea Labor Foundation Secretary General Park Jong-pil said. "We will focus on training the specialized workforce that is genuinely needed on the ground and linking them to jobs."