Construction of career development system... Designing college life on one’s own

Activation focusing on users, continuous upgrade of system

[Oct 15, 2015]

YU (President Noh Seok-kyun) was selected as the best university in the career development sector in the first 2015 Youth Dream College ‘Best Practice’ Awards and received the Minister of Employment and Labor Award.

The Donga Ilbo Youth Dream Center and the Ministry of Employment and Labor held the ‘2015 Youth Dream College Best Practice Awards’ with the attendance of over 50 people including the deans of the awarded universities, professors, Minister of Employment and Labor Lee Gi-gwon, and Donga Ilbo/Channel A President Kim Jae-ho at the Donga Media Center 20th Floor CC Cube at Jongno-gu, Seoul in the afternoon of the 15th.

The Best Practice Awards, which was held for the first time this year, was designed to share colleges with exemplary systems and cases for other colleges among the 25 colleges selected as Youth Dream Colleges, selected by being assessed to have youth-friendly education and research talent fostering capacities. This aims at making known the efforts of universities, while also sharing exemplary cases with other colleges.

In accordance to such goal, six outstanding colleges were selected for each sector and YU was selected for the career development sector and received the Minister of Employment and Labor Award.

The hosts assessed that YU’s school-wide career development process, or the CRM (Career Road Map) system was constructed to allow students to set their goals upon admissions and helped them to systematically design their college life. Furthermore, they evaluated that continuously upgrading the system, while promoting it to being user-oriented for not only curriculum programs, but also extra-curricular and student guidance programs. Also, they stated that YU distinguished itself by constantly checking the satisfaction level of education recipients through the ‘Y-Type Human Resources Education System’, and introduced other outstanding cases such as measuring the four core capacity education achievements for students, and examining the satisfaction level and reputation of YU graduates for companies. In addition, 500 HR personnel of companies were examined to improve the reputation of students and the satisfaction level of education, which were judged to have set examples for other universities.

On this, YU President Noh Seok-kyun said, “Our university provides support to all students so that they can identify their aptitude and develop their career accordingly during their four years in college so that they may properly utilize their capacities in society.” He added, “The college, students, and even the society must work together to overcome the youth unemployment issue.”

Inha University (Fostering of Youth Entrepreneurs) and the Korea University of Technology and Education (industry-academic linking) also received the Minister of Employment and Labor Award. The Donga Ilbo President’s Award went to Dongguk University (Career Development), Kwangwoon University (Young Entrepreneur Fostering), and University of Ulsan (industry-academic linking).

Minister of Employment and Labor Lee Gi-gwon said in his congratulatory address, “I am thankful for the universities that took the lead in systematic career education from the time of admission to graduation so that youths can have dreams, and for playing a leading role in doing so.” He added, “By fostering future-oriented human resources with practical expertise, creativity, and a sense of community, it will not only help youths, but it will also expand the job territory of Korea.” Minister Lee also cited a passage from Don Quixote, saying, “I hope that youths can dream dreams that are unattainable, and dream of a better world,” while adding, “The government will provide full support so that the young generation will no longer have to give up on their dreams, but become a generation that dreams more.”

 Donga Ilbo President Kim Jae-ho said in his greeting, “The youth unemployment issue has recently become a global social issue,” adding, “I hope that more universities will share exemplary cases of youth dream colleges and provide more systematic and realistic help.”