CareerNet Corporation

What CareerNet Corporation does

CareerNet Corporation is a South Korean HR services company founded in 2003 and headquartered in Seoul's Guro Digital Complex. The company operates the Career (career.co.kr) online recruitment portal, connecting job seekers with employers through verified job listings, resume posting, and talent search services. Beyond its portal, CareerNet delivers a comprehensive suite of HR services organized across four business divisions: platform services (the Career portal), employment services (Ministry of Employment and Labor-commissioned programs and university career center management), solutions (job fairs, recruitment solutions, and HR outsourcing), and strategic business (B2B consulting and B2G project execution). The company serves four primary customer segments: individual job seekers, corporate employers, universities and educational institutions, and government employment programs.

The company's core technology is RAMS (Recruiting Agent Management System), a proprietary recruitment management platform that handles end-to-end hiring workflows from applicant registration to candidate announcement. RAMS is deployed both as part of CareerNet's own recruitment agency services and offered to external clients including public institutions, financial sector employers, and local governments. The company also operates a specialized talent matching platform (Talent Bank) for connecting candidates with positions vacated due to parental leave or childcare transitions, and an integrated recruitment solution brand called CubeEx that combines online systems with offline recruitment agency services. CEO Park Yun-soo leads the company, which holds ISMS certification (2017, 2021) and has received multiple Korea Premium Brand Awards.

CareerNet generates revenue through multiple streams: portal advertising on the Career job site (banner ads priced KRW 430,000-1,500,000 per day), recruitment agency services using RAMS, government-commissioned employment programs, university career center management contracts, HR outsourcing services (covering 197 occupations across hospitality, food, logistics, manufacturing, and retail), and event-based job fair management. The company distributes services through direct enterprise sales (for corporate recruitment), government contracting (for employment programs), university partnerships (for campus career services), and self-serve online portal access (for individual job seekers and SMB advertisers).

Name

CareerNet Corporation

Legal name

(주)커리어넷

Website

https://careernet.co.kr

Company type

Private

Founded year

2003

Operating status

Operating

Short description

CareerNet Corporation is a South Korean HR services company founded in 2003 that operates the Career (career.co.kr) job portal and provides recruitment agency services, government-commissioned employment programs, university career center management, HR outsourcing, and job fair management across four customer segments: job seekers, employers, universities, and government.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Recruitment & HR Services

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies (561311), Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131), Employment Services (5613), Human Resources Consulting Services (541612)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361), Services-Educational Services (8200)

akta.pro primary industry

Career Services & Job Placement Platforms (Jobs, Recruiting, Employer Networks) (EDAFAMAM)

akta.pro secondary industries

Recruiting Administration Outsourcing (Recruitment Support, Scheduling, Onboarding Ops) (BPACAKAG), Job Placement, Matching & Career Navigation Services (EDAAAOAL), Employer Relations & Recruiting (Career Fairs) (EDALABAH), General Permanent Placement (Multi-Industry) (BPACAFAA)

Keywords

• Online job portal
• Recruitment agency services
• HR outsourcing
• Government employment programs
• University career services

Headquarters

HQ city

Seoul

HQ country

South Korea

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Portal Advertising: Banner advertising services on the Career job portal platform, offering various ad placements including full-screen, double, single, and Wantabi career banners at different price points.
2. Recruitment Solutions (RAMS): End-to-end recruitment agency services using proprietary RAMS system, serving public institutions, financial sector, and local governments.
3. HR Outsourcing: Contract-based, dispatch, and recruitment agency services covering hotel/leisure, food/beverage, logistics, manufacturing, and retail sectors.
4. Government Employment Services: Ministry of Employment and Labor commissioned programs including national employment support system, work experience programs, youth employment incentives, and senior internship programs.
5. University Career Services: Placement of dedicated consultants at university career centers to manage employment rates, providing one-stop employment services for students.
6. Strategic Business Services: B2B consulting services, B2G government project execution, and C2C/B2C intermediary platform services for university non-tenure track faculty.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

CareerNet Corporation operates a comprehensive HR services platform that combines an online recruitment portal (Career, career.co.kr) with offline recruitment agency services, university career center management, government-commissioned employment programs, HR outsourcing (contracting, dispatch, headhunting), EXPO job fair management, and strategic business consulting. The proprietary RAMS (Recruiting Agent Management System) ties the online portal and offline operations into one end-to-end hiring workflow covering applicant registration through candidate announcement, serving individual job seekers, corporate employers, universities, and government agencies across South Korea.

Product overview

CareerNet Corporation operates a comprehensive HR service platform offering multiple interconnected products and services. The core platform is the 채용포털 커리어 (Career Portal), an online recruitment portal that serves as the primary interface for job seekers and employers. This core platform is supported by RAMS (Recruiting Agent Management System), a proprietary recruitment management system enabling end-to-end hiring process management. The company also operates university-focused services through 대학일자리플러스센터 (University Job Plus Centers) with deployed career consultants, and delivers government-mandated employment programs including the 국민취업지원제도 (National Employment Support System), 일경험프로그램 (Work Experience Program), and 인재채움뱅크 (Talent Bank). Additional offerings include EXPO job fair management, HR outsourcing services (contracting, dispatch, headhunting), and strategic business consulting, all unified under an integrated one-stop service model.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• RAMS: Recruiting Agent Management System - proprietary online recruitment management system covering applicant registration through final hiring.
• 인재채움뱅크
• 커리어넷企业文化 (CareerNet Culture)

Products and services

• Career Job Portal (채용포털 커리어) Online recruitment portal connecting verified job seekers and employers, providing job listings, resume posting, banner advertising, and talent search services. Headline consumer-facing product of CareerNet.
• RAMS (Recruiting Agent Management System) Proprietary end-to-end recruitment management system integrating online portal operations with offline recruitment agency services, covering applicant registration through candidate announcement. Used to deliver recruitment solutions for public institutions, financial institutions, and local governments.
• University Job Plus Center (대학일자리플러스센터) On-site career counseling and employment support service with dedicated consultants deployed to university career centers to manage and improve student employment rates. Deliverable to higher-education clients.
• National Employment Support System (국민취업지원제도) Korean-style unemployment benefit / employment support program providing services from job counseling through livelihood support for eligible participants, delivered as a commissioned national program.
• Work Experience Program (일경험프로그램) Employment support program offering work experience placements to help participants transition to better jobs, delivered as a government-commissioned service.
• Talent Bank (인재채움뱅크) Employment support system that matches suitable candidates for positions experiencing employment gaps due to parental leave, childcare, or flexible work transitions. Helps employers re-fill roles vacated by caregivers.
• EXPO Job Fair (EXPO 박람회) Job fair event management service covering event planning, promotion, operations, and post-event analysis for recruitment exhibitions serving hiring companies and job seekers.
• HR Outsourcing Services (아웃소싱 사업) HR outsourcing services including contracting (도급), dispatch (파견), and headhunting (채용대행) across 197 occupations in industries such as hospitality/leisure, food/beverage, logistics, manufacturing, and retail.
• Strategic Business Services (전략사업) Enterprise consulting and new business development offering B2B HR services, B2G government project execution, and C2C/B2C intermediary platform services for university non-tenure track faculty.

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Korean Federation for the Rights of Disabled Persons (한국장애인단체총연합회)coreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 26 June 2026CareerNet signed a business agreement with the Korean Federation for the Rights of Disabled Persons to expand employment support services for disabled individuals. The partnership aims to strengthen the employment support cooperation system for disabled job seekers through CareerNet's specialized recruitment service 'Worihamkke JOB'.

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• LinkedIn: Global professional network with growing Korean presence, offering overlapping recruitment advertising and talent sourcing capabilities that increasingly compete with Korean portals for higher-skill placements.
• Indeed: Global job search engine with significant Korean traffic, competing for the same employer job-posting and candidate-sourcing budgets that anchor CareerNet's portal advertising revenue.
• Korn Ferry: Global HR services and executive search firm with Korean operations; comparable in scope to CareerNet's combined talent acquisition, consulting, and outplacement offerings across professional and executive segments.

Direct peers

• JobKorea (잡코리아): Major Korean job portal with overlapping employer network, resume search, and recruitment advertising offerings; one of the closest direct competitors to CareerNet's portal business.
• Saramin (사람인): South Korea's largest online job portal, directly competing with CareerNet's career.co.kr portal in banner advertising, resume database, and employer recruitment solutions across the same Korean B2C/B2B segments.
• Incruit (인크루트): Established Korean job portal offering resume search and recruitment advertising, comparable to CareerNet's career.co.kr portal across SMB and enterprise hiring customers in Korea.
• JobKorea Alba (알바천국): Korean part-time and hourly job platform directly comparable to CareerNet's Albaro / NobleAlba part-time job service line; competes for the same gig and part-time job seeker traffic.
• Wanted (원티드): Korean tech-focused recruitment platform with similar job-matching and employer branding capabilities, increasingly competing for the same digital and tech employer advertising budgets.

Emerging players

• JobPlanet (잡플래닛): Korean career platform combining company reviews, salary data, and job listings; an emerging competitor that overlaps with CareerNet's job seeker traffic and employer branding offerings.

Regional players

• Robert Walters Korea: Global professional recruitment firm operating in Korea, comparable to CareerNet's RAMS and corporate recruitment solutions for mid-to-senior professional and financial-sector placements.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xfacebook.com/careerpage
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCFx6dGREPIUf984_cx-EhVg
• Facebookfacebook.com/careerpage
• Instagraminstagram.com/career.co.kr

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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