Japan University Graduates and Jobs: Updated Oct. 25, 2024.

Almost 96% of 2025 university graduates in Japan receive job offers: company survey

Article Source: https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20241016/p2a/00m/0bu/016000c

Ideas:

Its very good that Japanese students can get many offers, with upwards of 96% getting some kind of offer. It indicates, maybe there is a labor shortage in Japan and companies are looking for workers.

But to be fair, what size companies students getting offers from. Are they large name-brand Japanese companies or are they small and midsize companies too.

And has been mentioned in other articles recently, some students who got offers soon quit as they couldn't adapt to the company work environment.

How many of these graduates are going to be with the same company after 5 years, or after 10 years and so on, as changing jobs has become more common in Japan as company workers don't want to be with the same company their entire working life.

In South Korea, for example, many university graduates don't want to work for a small and mid-size company as the salary and benefits are very much different, so many graduates, instead of taking a job at a small company, they might take up to year or more and continue to look for that big company job, such as Samsung.

It is estimated that there are more than 500,000 graduates in South Korea, just looking for jobs even though they have graduated.

It has also been suggested that some Japanese companies, not all companies, put a lot of pressure on graduates after giving them an offer not to change their minds.

The Japanese government has tried to crack-down on such companies but without much success, as it continue to happen.

So some graduates are using a kind of employment agency that helps them tell the company that have changed their minds and or those already working for a company to help them quit without a lot o pressure from the company to stay and continue working.

Today's graduates are very different from the graduates of 20 years ago, as they are more picky and don't want to work like their fathers did with long hours and maybe even weekend work.

Many graduates are looking for better work-life experiences and not looking for traditional rigid Japanese work culture, like their fathers had to endure.

The more a company can show the real example of what it will be like working in that company, the better chance graduates might consider that company. They are looking for transparency into what a company can do for them with good work-life experiences.

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