Job hunting

Japan’s largest business lobby has decided to scrap its long-held guidelines for corporate hiring of university students to give flexibility in recruiting amid increasing competition for new talent.

Cabinet members voiced support for an idea by the head of Keidanren to scrap guidelines that set the recruitment schedule for new college graduates beginning in spring 2021.

Hiroki Shimada can trace the genesis of his company, Scouty Inc., back to a time when he was on the outside of the job market looking in. During his graduate studies in artificial intelligence at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland, Shimada was surprised to ...

The nation's young adults are getting wise to the idea of changing jobs, surveys say. After putting up with years of stagnation in the job market, attitudes are shifting among job-hunting students as more employment opportunities arise, a recruitment consultant said. "Now that it has become ...

Faced with worker shortages and difficulty with identifying and attracting talent, companies are increasingly turning to the underused method of employee referrals to fill their junior ranks. Companies are looking to explore the well-trodden overseas method of tapping into the social networks of younger employees, ...

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 ...

Over 80 percent of job-hunting university students had secured at least one informal job offer for next spring as of Aug. 1, according to a private survey. The share of such students increased 4.9 percentage points from a year before to 84.2 percent amid the ...

The job-hunting season kicked off this month for university students due to graduate next spring, and companies are offering services to assist them while promoting their businesses at the same time. A cosmetics maker is offering a grooming and appearance seminar to give advice to ...

A record-high 97.3 percent of university graduates in Japan were employed as of the beginning of the fiscal year on April 1, according to government data released Friday, reflecting companies' increasing appetite for recruitment. The employment rate of job-seeking university graduates rose 0.6 percentage points ...

Amid a lingering labor shortage at Japanese companies, the job-hunting season for university students due to graduate next spring began Tuesday, with company information sessions being held nationwide. Experts said that as many companies are showing a willingness to hire, students will benefit from what ...