DISCO Co., Ltd. surveyed third-year university students and first-year master's students nationwide who are scheduled to graduate in March 2021 regarding their intention to participate in internships and their awareness of employment. (Number of responses: 3).

 According to the survey, when asked about their intention to participate in the internship as of the end of May 2019, 5% of the respondents said they would like to participate / plan to participate, indicating a high willingness to participate.When asked about the participation policy of students who intend to participate in internships (91.7%), "91.7% who want to participate in as many internships as possible" greatly exceeded "60.1% who want to participate in a limited number".However, "39.8% who want to participate only in the industry / company they are interested in" is higher than "45.6% who want to participate in a wide range of industries", and students who are looking for participating companies mainly in the industry they are interested in at the moment There were many.

 Regarding "what kind of internship you would like to participate in", the most common answer was "short-term (less than 5 days) 83.5%", followed by "1 week or so 72.2%", and "understanding the outline of the industry and companies". What you can do 60.3% ".On the other hand, only about 2% of the students want "long-term (more than 2 weeks)", and at the moment, students who want to participate in a lot of relatively short-term students in order to get to know a wide variety of industries and companies. It can be read that there are many.In addition, 48.6% of the respondents answered that they would like the university's grades to be emphasized in the recruitment selection process, as to how much they want the university's grades and specialized knowledge / majors to be emphasized.53.4% ​​of the respondents said that they would like to emphasize their specialized knowledge / major field, and 74.2% of science / graduate students.From this, it can be seen that science and graduate students are conscious of finding employment that makes the most of their expertise.

 When asked what their employment front is expected to be compared to seniors (graduates in 1) who are one grade higher, 2020% of the students think that it will be "tougher".Many were concerned about the reasons for this, including the confusion caused by the abolition of Keidanren's guidelines, the impact of the Olympic Games, and the deterioration of the world economy, including the US-China trade war.

Reference: [Disco Corporation] Survey on vocational awareness and internships of 2021 graduate students (PDF)

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