How will Japanese college students find jobs after graduation?

Choosing a commanding height that is suitable for your own development after graduation is the key to determining your future life. This period of job hunting is full of tension and hardship, and you need to go through countless written tests and interviews. After gritting their teeth and going through a difficult college life, the Chinese in Japan must overcome all obstacles before they can find a place in Japanese society and obtain their ideal career. Generally speaking, Japanese college students start looking for jobs relatively early. They often get as many credits as possible during their first and second years of college, and then go to various companies for internships starting from their third year. They frequently change internship locations in the hope of finding a position that best suits them. According to relevant surveys, on average, each college student has to pass written examinations, interviews and other various examinations from 16 companies, and only 2 companies are finally selected. When it comes to specific individuals, some are happy and some are sad. If the conditions are good, many companies may rush to get them, and if the conditions are poor, no one will care about them.

Therefore, many students receive employment guidance starting from the first grade, fully understand their strengths and weaknesses, and analyze jobs suitable for them. There are various qualification certification examinations in Japan, some are internationally recognized and nationally recognized, and more are industry-recognized qualification examinations. These qualifications are a stepping stone to finding a job.

Although many Japanese companies now claim that they do not pay attention to how many qualifications students obtain, what is important is what they learned in the process of obtaining qualifications. But in fact, the essence of attaching importance to qualifications has not changed. Therefore, Japanese students must start taking various qualifications as soon as they enter university, and they must work hard for qualifications by their junior year at the latest.

Japan’s employment mechanism is relatively complete. There are two main ways to find a job: one is to apply for jobs freely, and the other is to go through school recommendations. The reputation of the school determines the employment prospects of students. Generally, famous universities have many recommendation places from famous large companies. Most of the science and engineering students are recommended, so they basically don’t have to find a job themselves.

However, it is more difficult for girls to find a job. Major companies have a serious imbalance in the ratio of male to female admissions. Generally speaking, the female admission ratio is considered high when it is around 20%. In many industries, it is even less than 10%. Moreover, after being admitted, most girls are engaged in clerical work, and their development space is very limited. Moreover, the higher the education level, the harder it is for girls to find jobs. Taking Nagoya University as an example, male engineering students can basically find very good companies in April, but most female students can barely find a job until around August, and it is difficult for them to be satisfied.

Of course, graduates can also contact companies directly based on recruitment advertisements published on the Internet and newspapers, or send letters to the companies they wish to work for to request company introductions. At the same time, they can attend briefing sessions of each company and wait patiently for the company. exam notice.

In addition to the school’s employment guidance department, graduates can also get a variety of free help and guidance from the relevant employment guidance departments of the Japanese government. For example, personality tests, career suitability checks, and teaching self-analysis and interview skills.

Generally speaking, to obtain admission to a company, you must first submit personal information, mainly your resume and self-analysis. When filling out a job application, pay attention to promoting yourself and write down your shining points in concise language.

The second is the written test. The exam formats vary from company to company, and can be roughly divided into verbal, non-verbal, and career aptitude tests (psychological tests). There are also many companies that choose test questions related to their own company. For example, travel companies may take a lot of questions about the human geography of their own country and the world.

It is the interview again, and you should be prepared in advance for the interview questions. In the first round of interviews, there are usually groups of four or five people. The examiner is of a lower level and mainly observes whether you can cooperate with you happily. In the second round of interviews, the examiner may be at the level of section chief or director, and the examiner mainly examines whether you are qualified for the job and whether you are qualified for the job. Whether to obey the command; in the last interview, people at the ministerial level or even the president level will be the examiners. They are the key to deciding the admission. But it is said that personal preference plays a large role, so the rate of failure in the final interview is also very high.

In Japan, there are a lot of books and magazines for preparing for employment examinations. Because most of the questions asked by interview examiners in Japanese companies are the same, how students answer them has already been determined in these reference books. For example, most companies ask you to evaluate your greatest strengths and greatest weaknesses, and the answers provided by those books will teach you how to appear humble but be able to promote yourself skillfully.

For example, if you want to talk about your shortcomings, you can say that you have an impatient personality and speak out. On the one hand, it reflects your courage to face up to your shortcomings. On the other hand, it reflects your straightforward personality, which is nothing more than self-advertising. If you are a girl or a foreigner, you may also encounter some special questions, such as whether you will resign after getting married, whether you plan to return to your country in the future, etc.

Generally, after entering a company, Japanese college students will be down-to-earth, start from the bottom, and do their best to do their job well, rather than aiming too high. But if the company atmosphere is not good, the work is uninteresting, and there is too much overtime, they will resign. According to statistics, as many as 30% of college students resign within 3 years because they feel that their jobs are not ideal.

In short, if graduates want to find an ideal job, they must first understand themselves. Because whether you can find a job is one thing, but whether you can find your ideal job is another.