On March 2017, 3, the Japan Productivity Center's "Study Group on Occupations" (chaired by Rise Corporation) announced the characteristics of new employees in 23 as "character capture game type". bottom.

 The reason why it was named "character capture game type" is that "there are many characters (places of employment) and it was relatively easy to capture (unofficial), but it is difficult to capture rare characters (excellent companies)" last year 2016. It applies to the characteristics of games that go out and walk around with a smartphone that was very popular in the summer of the year.

 Regarding the state of job hunting, the appearance of walking from briefing session to briefing session and from internship to internship while wearing a recruitment suit and collecting information on a smartphone is said to remind us of people who are enthusiastic about this game.
Also, "In order to capture quickly (advance recruitment activities), collect information by making full use of the Internet and SNS, and run east to west with a smartphone in one hand. Do not be too desperate to inadvertently enter the danger zone (black company). It applies to the characteristics of the game, such as "Be careful".

 In the job hunting activities of the 2017 hires, many companies continued to actively hire new graduates from 2016.According to a survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, "Job offer rate for graduates of universities, etc. (as of February 2)", the job offer rate for university students was 1%, an increase of 90.6 points from the same period of the previous year.Although the schedule has been moved forward, it has exceeded the level before the Lehman shock and announced that it was the highest since 2.8.
In addition, job hunting students tended to emphasize the absence of abnormal long working hours and power harassment as conditions for employment, but the atmosphere that makes it difficult to ask questions at the interview still makes it difficult. rice field.

 The study group consists of young people's employment support specialists and education specialists.With the cooperation of school job hunters and those involved in hiring companies, we are conducting research on the characteristics of new employees and trends in job hunting.

Source: [Japan Productivity Center] 29 New employee type is "Character capture game type"

reference:[Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology] Survey on employment status of prospective graduates from universities in 28 (as of December 2)

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