Korean jobseekers most want to work for tech giant Google, showed a local survey on Monday.

According to a survey on 2,700 university students and job seekers by the recruitment sites Job Korea and Albamon, Google topped the list as the most desired foreign employer in the local job market, with around seven out of 10 participants saying so. 

Apple Korea ranked second with 25.9 percent of the votes, followed by Starbucks Korea at 16.9 percent, Nike Korea at 14.4 percent and Yuhan-Kimberly at 14 percent.

The list of top 10 most popular companies here included BMW Korea, Louis Vuitton Korea, L’Oreal Korea, Audi Volkswagen Korea, Adidas Korea and 3M Korea.

A majority of the respondents (37.2 percent) cited generous welfare benefits as the biggest reason for their choice, followed by horizontal corporate culture (24 percent) and opportunities to work abroad (17.6 percent).

Some 45.8 per cent of those surveyed were of the opinion that they would need foreign language skills to land a job in foreign companies. Another 15.8 percent of them thought that global mindsets were important while 15.6 per cent felt that relevant work experience was crucial.

(khnews@heraldcorp.com)