With the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the technological advancement of generative artificial intelligence is causing structural changes in the overall work processes of employment services. According to prior research, generative AI shows high automa...
With the Fourth Industrial Revolution, the technological advancement of generative artificial intelligence is causing structural changes in the overall work processes of employment services. According to prior research, generative AI shows high automation potential in information and data-based repetitive tasks such as document summarization, pattern analysis, and information classification, and is directly affecting the way career counselors perform their roles. The Korea Employment Information Service (2024) analyzed that 17 out of 40 representative tasks of career counselors are areas with high potential for utilizing or being replaced by generative AI, and in particular, the 'job information processing' task was identified as a representative area where AI can be most effectively applied. This suggests that a significant portion of career counselors' work involving information organization and documentation processes can be greatly enhanced in efficiency through AI.
Career counselors perform not only professional face-to-face tasks such as job seeker counseling, career guidance, job information provision, vocational training linkage, and job placement, but also a vast amount of administrative work including counseling log preparation, performance entry, job posting organization, company information collection, and reporting. These repetitive, manual-based information processing tasks have been consistently pointed out as factors leading to decreased job satisfaction, reduced counseling quality, and increased burnout among counselors. Nevertheless, practical AI tools that field counselors can immediately utilize are extremely scarce, which acts as a major factor causing a gap between actual job requirements and technological support.
To address this issue, this study aimed to directly develop a 'Job Posting Organization Program' utilizing generative AI and apply it to 'job information processing,' an area with high AI utilization potential among career counselors' tasks, to analyze practical efficiency. A program was developed that automatically collects and extracts web data when a job authentication number from Goyong24 is entered, and processes and summarizes job posting information for provision.
To verify the program's effectiveness, a focus group interview (FGI) was conducted with six career counselors. The results confirmed that counselors perceived the existing job posting organization task as 'time-consuming, repetitive, and a representative area of inefficiency.' In contrast, when using the program, the information collection, summarization, and delivery processes were significantly shortened, reducing work burden, and positive responses were shown regarding the ability to reinvest the secured time into core counseling activities (client analysis, employment strategy development, company outreach, etc.). This means that the 'job information processing' area can be practically automated through generative AI and can directly contribute to alleviating counselors' excessive administrative burden.
This study is significant in that it empirically confirmed the automation potential of 'job information processing' tasks through an AI tool directly developed by a career counselor in practice, and has academic and practical contributions in presenting a practical AI development model centered on career counselors rather than existing job seeker-centered AI services. Furthermore, by confirming that administrative automation using generative AI can positively affect the reduction of counselors' job stress and enhancement of professionalism, the study presented the direction for digital transformation in the employment service field.
In future research, by additionally exploring long-term effectiveness verification in various counseling institutions and actual counseling settings, linkage with job seeker data, design of customized AI processing models by industry and occupation, and the relationship between counselors' AI literacy and job performance, contributions can be made to the advancement of employment service systems.