Around 65 percent of university seniors in Japan had turned down one or more job offers as of October amid a nationwide labor shortage, an online survey showed Monday.
Of 1,529 seniors who responded to the survey, which was conducted by a career information company in early October, 92.1 percent had received one or more job offers as of Oct. 1 before their graduation next March — up 1.5 percentage points from a year earlier.
Of them, 64.6 percent had rejected one or more job offers, up 3.8 points from the previous year and the highest level since Recruit Career Co. began conducting the survey in 2012.