Japanese enterprises increase recruitment of new graduates

According to recent surveys, the rate of new personnel recruitment of Japanese business will grow in the near future. Businesses have increased recruitment, showing that the economy in Japan is showing positive signs of recovery.

According to a survey by Yomiuri newspaper from mid-March to early April, for 118 large enterprises in Japan, about 36% of domestic enterprises will increase recruitment of new graduates from the spring of 2022, a significant increase. compared to 14% in 2021.

Mainichi quoted Mr. Takayoshi Kurita – Director of Mirai Employment Research Institute, the increase in recruitment rate was due to the competition to recruit human resources to prepare for the post-recovery recovery. COVID-19 epidemic.

The high rate of new employee recruitment was recorded in the manufacturing, transportation, and travel industries, which have been greatly affected by the COVID-19 epidemic recently.

Many businesses in Japan are planning to increase recruitment of new employees from recent graduates. Illustration.

According to the JiJi news agency, major corporations such as Honda and Mitsubishi will increase their recruitment requirements by 20% for new graduates, while other manufacturing corporations will employ even more such as Nippon Steel and Yamaha Motor. increase the number of new hires by 50% and 60% respectively.

Meanwhile, transport and service businesses such as Japan Airlines plan to continue to recruit new graduates more than three times more than the previous year; and JTB travel group also plans to increase recruitment similarly.

The Mainichi newspaper reported that businesses plan to increase the number of workers recruited, but because Japan’s 15-65 year old workforce is seriously shrinking, recruitment will have to be very competitive.

In order to increase the success rate of recruitment, Japanese enterprises have changed their recruitment policies, the most important of which is to increase wages for workers. Up to 39% of businesses in Japan said that they plan to increase wages for employees from this year, of which 1/5 will increase wages by more than 3% and 1/3 will increase wages from 2 to 3 years. 3%.

The plan to recruit new personnel of Japanese enterprises increased after the COVID-19 epidemic, bringing a positive signal to the economy of this country. However, whether this trend continues or not will depend on the speed of economic recovery as well as the situation of the COVID-19 epidemic in the near future.

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