Objectives

Having committed to ensuring the professional success of our graduates, the CDC consistently thrives to achieve the following goals:

• Enhancing Career Readiness
  We provide career counselling, workshops, and training sessions to help students develop essential professional skills from their first semesters.
• Facilitating Global Opportunities
  We guide our students to postgraduate pathway programs, internships, study abroad, skills-training programs within the KDU Global Student Mobility Network depending on their professional plans and needs.
• Support Employment
  We offer comprehensive one-stop guidance on job-seeking, resume and portfolio building, and interview preparation in cooperation with industry professionals and in compliance with labour market expectations.
• Navigating Immigration Support
  We provide up-to-date guidelines and immigration support services related to various employment and residential visas, including F-2-R, E-7, F-2-7, D-10, etc., for our students transiting from academia to settlement in Korea.
• Leveraging Alumni Networks
  KDU Global alumni network spans across the globe! We actively establish and expand the connections and engagements between our students and alumni through mentorships, networking events, and vocational assistance programs.

Activities and Trainings

KDU Global CDC activities and training programs are embedded in both curricular and extra-curricular programs for international students.

Skills-development Programs

CDC offers comprehensive activities and trainings designed to polish essential professional competencies for every student's unique career pathway. Through interactive training courses, students continuously refine their workplace readiness skills. Our hands-on resume and CV development sessions deliver personalized guidance from faculty with international HR experience, helping students build stand-out portfolios, optimize application documents, and enhance online profiles. Complementing these skill-building workshops, our regular Career Talks connect students with global alumni, industry executives, and HR specialists who share practical strategies for entering specific industries.

Job-search Trainings

The CDC organizes job-search training sessions designed to equip our international students with the modern and effective strategies and tools for navigating the job markets. These sessions cover everything from identifying industry-specific job boards and networking tactics to tailoring applications to Korean and multinational company standards and requirements using traditional as well as AI-related tools and applications.

Job Fairs

The CDC regularly organizes job fairs, including global talent fairs, local job-matching workshops, start-up fairs on campus and supports students’ participations and engagements in the similar events around Korea. The fairs and workshops run by the CDC are specifically tailored to the needs and profiles of our international students at KDU Global and are intended to bring together a wide range of employment and industry training opportunities both in Korea and abroad.

Employment and Immigration Support

The CDC keeps students informed on crucial regulatory updates and visa reforms by Ministry of Justice to enhance employment and settlement opportunities in Korea.

Through informative briefings and trainings in collaboration with local immigration offices and businesses, the CDC aims to equip each and every international student with essential legal insights for them to seamlessly navigate their career transitions in Korea by obtaining relevant to their career goals visas upon graduation:

• D-10 (Job Seeking)
  Proposed permission to stay for up to two years without meeting the Korean-language requirement, or up to three years when the requirement is met.
• E-7 (Professional Employment)
  Proposed expansion of employment opportunities for science and engineering talent with Korean-language proficiency, including in manufacturing.
• F-2 (Residence)
  Employment of international students through F-2-R special regional visas in collaboration with partner business. Training and preparations for the introduction of the “K-Tech Master” visa for graduates of professional technical master’s programs, providing a pathway from D-2 to F-2.
• F-5 (Permanent Residence)
  Supporting our graduates, who meet the pertinent eligibility requirements, to progress to permanent residence status with wide range of long-term employment opportunities in Korea.

Contacts and Location

Designated CDC office is located in the Chunghyogwan building 1F. Special training programs or activities are conducted on- and off-campus in various venues and locations that are regularly announced to the target students and graduates.

With any inquiries and collaboration proposals, please contact us at mjkim@kduniv.ac.kr.