A joint survey by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology revealed that the employment rate for students who graduated from domestic universities in March had reached 3% as of April 4, the first improvement in three years.With the labor shortage becoming more serious, the trend of a seller's market is strengthening, apparently because companies' willingness to hire has increased due to the recovery from the corona crisis.
The survey was conducted on 112 people from a total of 6,250 national, public and private universities, junior colleges, technical colleges, and specialized training colleges.
According to the report, the employment rate of university students did not reach the record high of 2020% for March 3 graduates, but it was 98.0 percentage points higher than the same period last year.The breakdown was 1.5% for national and public universities (up 97.4 points from the same period last year) and 1.3% for private universities (up 97.2 points).
By gender, humanities accounted for 97.1% (up 1.7 percentage points) and science majors at 98.1% (up 0.7 percentage points). point).By region, the highest employment rate was in the Chugoku/Shikoku region at 97.3%.Compared to the same period last year, it recorded a significant increase of 2.7 points.
The employment rate for non-university students was 98.1% for junior college students (up 0.3 points), 99.2% for technical college students (up 0.1 points), and 95.7% for specialized training colleges (up 1.0 points).Universities, junior colleges, technical colleges, and specialized training colleges as a whole accounted for 97.3% (an increase of 1.3 percentage points).
