The cry of the working ice age-Girl students are now 20:45 on November 20
Now that they have changed from non-regular jobs, they say they can't feel positive about becoming full-time employees. An era of difficult job hunting after the burst of the bubble, when many students were unable to find jobs. The job hunting activities of female students were harsh, involving boys. What are the difficulties they faced? (Social Department reporter Kazuo Fukuda)
~ For a private university graduate from Keio University (Keiko (46)) ~
・ Learn home economics at a private women's university in Tokyo.
・ Currently working as a part-time social worker in a hospital.
・ I live alone in Kanagawa Prefecture.
Difference from the first male student
(Mr. Keiko) “It was an era when women who graduated from university had almost no employment. It seemed like they refrained from hiring women who graduated from university.”
Keiko-san, “a woman who graduated from university,” has said many times. The university graduate, who should be a strength in the employment examination, is rather negative.
1996, 23 years ago. When Keiko graduated from university, there was a storm of depression after the collapse of the bubble. The job offer ratio for university graduates is 1.08 times. It was the second lowest year in the past.
The first thing I faced was the information gap with male students. Before the Internet spread, it was common for company recruitment information to be obtained in a thick booklet compiled by major human resources companies. A booklet that was sent in large quantities like direct mail around the fall of the third year of university. However, it is said that none of the books reached Keiko.
(Keiko-san) “What was it, that was. My brother came quite a bit and I think there was a classmate's science boy. But I didn't come with one book. Was a high school student boom when he was a high school student, and a high school girl boom when he graduated from high school and became a college student. ''
I understood what I wanted to say. When I was a high school student or a college student, I didn't hit the spotlight. And even after graduating from university ...
Keiko is the second baby boom, the so-called baby boom junior. In addition to the large number of students, the university entrance rate has increased significantly. In particular, the rate of girls going to school exceeded 30% for the first time, and the number of college graduate girls doubled in the 10 years after the burst of the bubble.
The rapidly increasing “university graduate girls” were exposed to fierce competition over the limited pie of full-time employees in the unfortunate gathering of the job ice age.
I have a sight that I still remember. Seniors who find employment in the midst of the bubble economy are jeans ok and pink suits for job hunting.
On the other hand, they are interviewed in a group wearing black, blue, and gray suits and sieved. When I witnessed it, I said that my motivation and confidence in finding a job were declining.
(Keiko-san) “I was surprised to see the black world at that time. If I don't do that, I can't get a job. It's impossible for me to divide it.”
In the end, only one company took the recruitment test. During the interview, I was told that “a four-year-old child doesn't take anything,” and gave up on his job.
To college after graduating from university
After graduating from university, he entered a vocational school to learn his favorite knitting. After graduating, I was 27 when I finally got a job while working part-time at a yarn shop.
It was the work I wanted to do, planning knit products, but this time I was waiting for harsh long working hours.
(Keiko-san) “The tears didn't stop. I worked until the last train and it was early in the morning. There was quite a lot of overtime. In that, I was able to come up with more interesting ideas. "You can do it"
I was diagnosed with depression for 9 years and I was trying to take a leave of absence, and the president suddenly forced me to leave the office. At this time, mid 30s. He says he was no longer thinking about working in the same industry.
(Keiko-san) “I often ask young people for their senses. The president who worked there was a young person even at the age of one.”
I can't just worry about my future
After that, Keiko obtained a qualification as a social worker and started working as a part-time social worker at a hospital in Tokyo 6 years ago. At this time, I married a man I met, but last year, I was pioneered by cancer and became one again.
I am most worried about my parents in my 80s and my older brother who has a higher brain dysfunction due to the effects of his childhood accident. I don't need care yet, but in the near future I feel that I will have to support my family.
It is said that you can't feel like trying to change your job to become a full-time employee.
(Mr. Keiko) “The country wants to increase the number of people who can work, and says,“ I want to increase the number of full-time employees in the ice age, ”but if it is this year, if there is something for parents or spouses, it will be 5 days a week It will be difficult to work in time, and the annual income will peak in the 30s and 40s, and will decline after that.That is the social evaluation.I think what I want to do as a full-time employee in that situation. "
~ Graduated from a science school, Kanako-san (a pseudonym, 46) ~
・ Learn biotechnology that was popular at the time at a vocational school.
・ Non-regular and triple work.
・ I live alone in Saitama Prefecture.
Are graduates of vocational school more severe?
It is not only college graduate girls who have faced employment difficulties. Women at vocational schools and junior colleges also struggled with strictness.
In 1994, Kanako graduated from a vocational school. I liked plants and wanted a manufacturer's research position to make use of the biotechnology knowledge I learned at school. The job hunting ratio was just before it hit the bottom, but as soon as I started job hunting, I felt that I had a strong sense of educational background.
(Mr. Kanako) “Even if you go to a vocational school alone, you will be laughed with your nose as if it ’s impossible” even if you leave the interview.
I applied to about 50 companies, but the reality is that only “what school you graduated” is more important than “what you learned”. In the end, I couldn't get a job offer before graduation.
After graduating, Kanako, who had a bad deal with her parents, started living alone while doing non-regular triple work. All of them, including part-time employees at flower shops and contract employees at travel agencies, were all jobs that were not directly related to biotechnology, but they could not have chosen.
(Mr. Kanako) “Even when recruiting contract employees, people who graduated from university came down at the time. It was a job that we (vocational school graduates) would take. So I didn't choose a job at all. Low It ’s as much work as you can eat with wages ”
A turning point comes when you have lived such a barely life until your mid-30s. Marriage gave birth to life. I decided to become a regular employee again. After leaving the non-regular job, about 60 companies took the recruitment test, and finally one company was hired by the office work.
Although it was the first full-time employee, I tried hard, but I was allowed to do diving sales and flyer distribution completely different from the contents of the job offer, and the overtime of the month could exceed 160 hours. Even so, the salary was only 160,000 yen.
(Mr. Kanako) “It was a black company. I converted it to hourly wage and it was cut by 1000 yen. At that time, I was grateful to just hire a woman of this age. I thought.
The job offer of the local government is “Koi no Yarn”
Then divorced. Again, I returned to living alone in an irregular triple work. The total income is 22-250,000 yen per month. There are almost no holidays. Although it is a difficult life, Kanako is not planning to become a full-time employee.
(Mr. Kanako) “From my academic background and work history, I think the possibility of getting a salary is almost zero. If you have a good salary, you are more than a university graduate. Recruitment of local officials who are already over-aged, and when I look for a job like that, I remember Ryunosuke Ayukawa's “Aoi no Ito”.
In the meantime, several local governments across the country have issued jobs for the ice age. We received a great response and we reported that the rush of applicants as positive news. I felt that it was like a spider thread ...
Certainly a few people are employed. There are only a handful of opportunities that can be seized by the non-regular working ice age generation of 500,000 people.
From the day after hearing this story, Kanako was talking about work for two weeks in a row. I don't have time or money to do job hunting. Such a situation has continued for 25 years.
(Mr. Kanako) “The ice age has continued. People who were angry had left their physical strength angry until then. We started from despair from the beginning, so we never got angry.
Is the solution only to aim for regular employees?
This time, I heard from two women and felt that the solution was not necessarily just to become a full-time employee.
As you age, you may not be able to work full time for a variety of reasons, including illness or parental care. In the first place, is it necessary to work full-time, 5 days a week as a full-time employee? Why is there so much difference between non-regular and regular wages? I feel that there are other issues that need to be improved in addition to the full-time generation of the ice age.
We will continue to report on the job-generation ice age. Please let me hear your voice.