– ACRC recommends public institutions to make institutional improvement to ease the job applicant burden on international graduates

In the future, it is expected that job seekers who have graduated from overseas educational institutions will ease the burden of submitting s when applying to public institutions.

The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC, Chairperson Ryu Chul Whan) recommended 331 public institutions to ease the job applicant burden of international graduates.

In the meantime, job seekers who have graduated from overseas educational institutions such as universities have been requested to deliver Apostille* or proof of academic background that are translated into Korean and notarized by consular to apply to public institutions or work as instructors of for-profit educational institutions.

 * Apostille: A legalization procedure that authenticates the origin of a country for use in another country. Requires the verification by a public institutions regarding, for instance, certificate of registration or academic tran which is issued by schools or universities.

Therefore job seekers who want to get a job in Korea after graduating educational institutions based in other countries have no choice but to use private agencies and foreign language translation administrators, which requires a high cost and time burden.

Some public institutions have requested the original submission of academic s that received Apostille during the recruitment process (e.g. review, interview) that are blind process and thus not related to academic background, causing a burden on job seekers.

ACRC hence relived the requirements for the recruitment process so that for the screening process where academic background is not a recruitment requirement, copies of s with Apostille can be also accepted.

In addition, many public institutions required recently issued s*, so job seekers had to ask for academic background s several times during the job search period and even go through confirmation of Apostille.

 * Example of recent: s issued within 3 months from the date of job opening

Therefore, ACRC recommended to set the recognition period for s with low possibility of update, such as graduation certificates, for a long period of more than a year to lower the burden on job seekers with international education background.

At the same time, it was challenging for an international graduates if they have worked as an academy instructor and move to an academy in another region, as they have to receive the original academic from their workplace or reissue it and resubmit it to the education office which has jurisdiction over the academy.

ACRC thus proposed the Ministry of Education and 17 metropolitan and provincial offices of education to set a function to link relevant information between education (support) offices in the educational administration information system, for the instructors who agrees to provide personal information.