Japanese companies started job seminars on Sunday targeting university students graduating in spring 2027, with a seller’s market continuing due to unabated labor shortages in many industries.<\/p>\n
The rapid spread of artificial intelligence technology has also led to intense competition for science and engineering talent.<\/p>\n
Many companies officially started recruitment activities such as job seminars on Sunday following a request from the government to hold off on such activities until then.<\/p>\n
But a survey shows that about 30% of students have already obtained informal job offers. Critics say that job hunting is starting earlier and that recruitment rules are becoming a mere formality.<\/p>\n
Job information company Mynavi held a job fair in Tokyo for science and engineering students that brought together more than 60 companies, including Honda Motor and air conditioner maker Daikin Industries.<\/p>\n
A third-year national university student participating in the event has already received an informal job offer, according to the student. “I feel I have a wide range of options. I’m paying close attention to benefit packages and work locations,” the student said.<\/p>\n
“Demand for science and engineering students is very high,” said Makoto Takahashi, editor in chief of Mynavi.<\/p>\n
According to a survey of about 950 people conducted by human resources company Indeed Recruit Partners, 32.8% of students graduating in spring 2027 had received informal job offers by Feb. 1. To secure talent early, an increasing number of companies are deciding who to hire without waiting for March 1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Japanese companies started job seminars on Sunday targeting university students graduating in spring 2027, with a seller’s market…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[217,215,214,216,5732,1438,3719],"class_list":{"0":"post-6185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-business-of-japan","10":"tag-japans-business","11":"tag-japanese-business","12":"tag-job-hunting","13":"tag-jobs","14":"tag-students"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/japan\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}