POL Co., Ltd., which provides a new graduate recruitment service "LabBase" that can scout excellent science students based on the research content, conducts a "job hunting survey" for 2 second-year master's students in science graduate schools nationwide. carried out.
The survey period is from July 2019th to July 7th, 19.During this period, when many science students returned to research activities after completing job hunting, a questionnaire was given to 7 second-year master's students in science.
According to the survey, 2% of the second year master's students belong to a laboratory with core time, and about 32.9% of the students answered that it is "difficult to get a job".In particular, 40% of students majoring in chemistry and 69.2% of students majoring in biology and agriculture answered that they have core time, and it can be seen that there are many laboratories with core time compared to other majors such as information and mechanical engineering. ..Only 60% of students without core time answered that it was difficult to find a job.In response to the question, "When did you find it difficult to find a job?", "When I couldn't go to the long-term laboratory. When I couldn't get results." However, there was an atmosphere that job hunting was completed early and job hunting was done using recommendations. "" When the laboratory schedule was not flexible at all even during the busy season of job hunting. " there were.
Next, regarding the place of employment, it was found that 22% agreed / tried to accept the offer of "a company that I did not know at all at the beginning of job hunting".The most common time to get to know the company is from January to March, just before the start of the final selection, and it is thought that the options are being expanded to companies that had not been considered until then.
In addition, there was a clear difference in the selection method depending on the major.In the second year of the master's course, 2% of general applicants and 71.8% of recommendations are recommended, but the percentages selected by recommendation are 28.2% for physics / mathematics, 10.0% for chemistry, and 20.0% for biology / agriculture. Information was 0%, opportunity was 66.7%, and electrical and electronic was 50.0%.Students majoring in physics / mathematics, chemistry, biology / agriculture are relatively likely to choose a course that does not directly utilize their research in the questionnaire on the degree of relevance of their research and the companies that have accepted / are trying to make an offer. Therefore, students majoring in information, mathematics, and electricity / electronics often chose a course where they could make use of their research.
72.9% of the students who chose the company chose 27.1% of the students who chose the university when asked "Which would you like to proceed if you could get the same salary for both research at the company and research at the university?" It became.
Reasons for choosing a university include "I can concentrate on research regardless of the profit activities of the company" (mechanical / male) and "I want to do basic research" (chemical / female). Instead of leaving my research results as a dissertation, I want to leave them in a form that can contribute to people's lives "(Chemistry / Male)," I thought that companies could grow. "I thought I could do it" (medicine / female) and "in the case of university, there seems to be a lot of other chores" (physics / mathematics / male).
