[Abstract]
NCS(National Competency Standards) is riding a wave of renewed public interest in case of high youth unemployment rates in South Korea. The reason why many people are interested in NCS is that NCS is the best tool for person-job fit as well as person-organization fit.
These days one of the most serious problems we face in employment market in South Korea is just high youth unemployment rates as noted. It is said that the reason is due to so called job-mismatch.
Job-mismatch usually occur when the job that the company need is different from the job that job seeker need. And because of this mismatch, youth unemployment rates is growing increasingly.
So in an effort to solve this problem, the ministry of labor and employment started new policy for paving the way to a society emphasizing individual competency rather than academic background and for expanding job opportunities for youths. That is the introduction of NCS in Personnel Management.
NCS is to standardization of capabilities(knowledge, skill, attitudes) required to perform jobs effectively in the workplace in national level. So NCS is the best tool for increasing person-job fit and person-organization fit.
Based on this concept, Many organizations including HRDKorea changed the recruitment and ion system to NCS-based system.
It included that recruitment by NCS, making application by NCS, test by NCS, ion by NCS, and so on.
After that, it is reported that NCS-based recruitment and ion system improved the person-job fit and person-organization fit.
And it is confirmed that NCS is also the best tool to lead a society emphasizing individual competency.