Nexon to hire more game developers
Officials at Nexon provide job introduction jobseekers during the company's job fair which has been touring 10 universities in Seoul and nearby regions since Sept. 4. / Courtesy of Nexon
By Nam Hyun-woo
With companies opening this year's regular autumn hiring sessions, not only info-tech firms but also companies from other industries are making efforts to secure tech-savvy jobseekers.
According to Nexon, Thursday, it decided to double the number of jobs offered this fall from a year earlier. The game firm said more than 70 percent of the offers will be on development jobs in a bid to enhance its own game developing capacity.
Earlier this year, Nexon restructured its developing organization and started seven new studios. Five of the studios will hire developers this fall, and the company's Intelligence Labs will also be looking for new talent who can incorporate artificial intelligence (AI) into games.
Since Sept. 4, Nexon has been touring 10 universities in Seoul and nearby regions to hold job fairs for students. Also, its employees provided job introductions and counseling for jobseekers at its office in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province, Saturday.
Nexon has been making keen efforts to hire new talent through internships in the first half and then hiring them as regular workers in the second half of each year. With this effort, the number of Nexon employees grew to 6,150 in the first half of this year from 4,600 in 2014.
An IT service provider, LG CNS, is also opening its doors wide to get new tech specialists on board. This fall, LG CNS will hire more than 200 in eight sectors including, software development, AI algorithm development, big data analysis and cloud technologies.
KT will open a special recruiting session for software developers before its regular hiring session for the fall. KT said it will exclude the abilities or experiences of job seekers unrelated with software development, such as education or language command, from the job interview.
Non-IT companies are also striving to recruit jobseekers with development abilities. In July, Lotte Shopping said it would hire 400 jobseekers capable of working in AI, IT, user experience and design fields to allocate them into its new e-commerce business department.
Lotte Shopping seeks to build an application that can access all seven Lotte online malls by 2020.
KB Kookmin Bank and NH NongHyup Bank also added IT into their recruiting criteria in order to cope with the spread of technology in banking.
“Recently, companies in various industries are making efforts to hire employees with IT abilities,” a Nexon official said. “Nexon will also do its utmost to secure tech specialist to roll out innovative and unique games, as well as expanding investment in new technologies such as AI-applied data analysis.”