The Korea Industrial Human Resources Development Institute held the ‘2025 Second Half National Competency Standards (NCS) Related Institutions Council’ at the BizHub Seoul Center on the 12th. The council included 10 institutions such as the Ministry of Employment and Labor and the Korea Employers Federation, sharing the progress of major projects and seeking ways to utilize and expand the NCS.
The National Competency Standards (NCS) standardize the skills needed in the industrial field, helping to efficiently train and manage human resources in education, training, qualifications, and corporate sectors. The council is held twice a year, sharing major progress with related institutions and listening to field opinions.
The institute is promoting major projects such as the Job Competency Bank System and the Sectoral Qualification Framework (SQF). Workers or job seekers can issue job competency certificates from the system for employment and career development. Additionally, the institute has established a hyper-connected public-private data platform that connects various job experience data in real-time.
The institute is developing sectoral qualification frameworks focusing on industries with high demand for manpower and has developed and disseminated a foreign workforce utilization model in the automobile production sector. It is also making various efforts to spread a fair recruitment culture and improve work processes by incorporating artificial intelligence (AI).