LG Innotek (CEO Lee Ung Beom) will conduct open recruitment for people with disabilities for the first time in the company’s history.
 

Among the applicants, LG Innotek will hire a total of over 50 staff members as office and production staffs who will work at its seven worksites nationwide. The Company will recruit staff in the areas of research and development, production technology, sales and marketing, production, and quality inspection.
 

Applicants applying for the office worker post should have a bachelor’s degree or higher, and those for research and development or production technology must be people who majored in related areas of engineering and science and have relevant experience. Applicants for production workers should be high school graduates or junior college graduates, and those who majored in engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, and mechanical engineering will be given priority.
 

Applications must be submitted online through via LG Innotek’s website (www.lginnotek.com) by March 28. Successful applicants will be announced in mid-April.
 

Newly hired staff members will be deployed evenly throughout the company’s branch offices in Seoul, Gumi, Paju, Gwangju, Ansan, Osan and Cheongju according to their occupational areas.
 

LG Innotek operates a “special health care assistance program for staff with disabilities” to benefit handicapped staff from last year. The program provides handicapped staff with not only coverage of medical expenses that are not covered by national medical insurance, but also provides specialized regular medical checkups.
 

LG Innotek will continue to hire people with disabilities, and employ as many as 150 of until 2015, including those that are to be recruited this time. The Company also plans to construct handicapped people-friendly production lines for staff with disabilities as part of efforts to improve its work friendly systems and infrastructure.
 

An LG Innotek official said, “We will expand employment of people with disabilities and diversify routes of recruitment in order to fulfill our corporate social responsibility and to preemptively secure talented human resources with disabilities.”