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.
Firms use internships to entice top students
Facing fierce competition to attract top university graduates, many Japanese firms are using internship programs as a way to entice students before the official start of the recruiting season, which was recently shifted to March from December. Students in their junior year aiming for the ...
More than three-quarters of university students graduating this March have a job lined up for April, up for the third straight year, according to a government survey released Tuesday. The percentage as of Dec. 1 was 76.6 percent, up 1.6 percentage points from a year ...
The average starting salary of university graduates fell 0.8 percent in 2013 from the year before to #165;198,000 for the second consecutive yearly fall, the government said Ｔhursday. The figure for high school graduates stood at ¥156,000, down 1.2 percent, the Ministry of Health, ...
