How Should New Hire Onboarding Be Conducted?

"We hired diligently, only to receive a resignation notice in less than three months." For any HR manager, this scenario is far from a simple recruitment failure. According to the 'Supplementary Survey on Youth in the Economically Active Population Survey for May 2025' officially released by Statistics Korea on July 24, 2025, dissatisfaction with working conditions—such as pay and working hours—accounted for 46.4% of the reasons for leaving a first job, marking a 0.9 percentage point increase from the previous year. The same survey showed that for those whose first job after graduation is as a wage earner, the average time required to secure initial employment was 11.3 months. This means that nearly half of young workers leave their first job—obtained after spending an average of over 11 months job hunting—due to dissatisfaction with working conditions. According to the 'Employment Trend…