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Record 98% of Japan's university graduates land jobs amid recovering economy
Aided by firms’ increasing appetite for recruitment, the rate of university students seeking jobs also increased to 75.3 percent, the highest on record.
University students in Japan getting luckier with early job offers, survey finds
Nearly 20 percent of the nation's job-hunting university students had secured informal offers for next spring as of April 1, a private survey shows. The 19.9 percent figure is 5.4 points higher than a year ago, according to the survey by job data provider Recruit ...
Japan's short-handed firms turn to refugees for labor shortages
At an office in Tokyo, a group of asylum-seekers clutching resumes listened to three companies describe their openings — rare opportunities in Japan's often impenetrable job market. Japan accepts only a handful of refugees each year. Each faces hurdles to employment that can seem almost ...
40% of firms to hire more grads in '19, but not banks: survey
Many of Japan’s largest companies plan to hire more fresh graduates than they did last year, except for its banks, a survey finds.
Acute shortages of manpower in Japan are prompting changes in the country's labor market, and a new rule to facilitate the conversion of fixed-term contract workers into indefinite-term employees will come into full force in April. The status conversion rule was included in the revised ...
The past five years of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's much-touted "womenomics" measures, aimed at advancing female economic empowerment, have shown clear-cut progress, with about 70 percent of Japanese women and girls aged between 15 to 64 now being employed or seeking jobs. Efforts to further ...
Majority of job-seeking university students put off by AI-powered candidate screening
As more companies turn to artificial intelligence to discover new talent, a recent survey has shown that a majority of job-seeking university students don't want their abilities judged by the technology. About 67.5 percent of 1,258 university and graduate students slated to graduate in March ...
A new government policy that enourages companies to allow employees to have side jobs raises several important issues.
Media reports de-romanticize the cleanup work on the Fukushima nuclear power plant
Most of the reliable reporting about the clean-up of the Fukushima No. 1 nuclear power plant since it suffered three meltdowns in March 2011 has been from on-site workers. Even when articles appear in major media outlets about the situation at the crippled reactor, ...
Businesses should stop viewing irregular workers as disposable assets.
Japan sees foreign workers climb to record 1.28 million as labor crunch continues
Japan’s population of foreign workers has grown 18 percent on year, led by Chinese and a surge in Vietnamese entrants.
Is artificial intelligence killing Japan's banks?
As part of an ongoing series about artificial intelligence, the Asahi Shimbun on Jan. 11 published a story that asserts the financial industry has adopted AI more readily than any other. Because finance is a data-driven endeavor, designing AI software to do things such ...
