Employment next spring High school student employment exam starts One month late due to corona influence October 16 12:23
The recruitment test for high school students who want to get a job next spring started on the 16th, one month later than usual due to the influence of the new coronavirus.
A recruitment test was also conducted at a company in Yokohama, which operates 126 supermarkets mainly in the Tokyo metropolitan area, and high school students visited one after another from the morning.
After disinfecting and measuring the temperature of their hands to prevent infection, the students were scattered in a large conference room and took a written test.
According to the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, the number of job offers from companies and other companies for students who want to get a job next spring has decreased by about 24% from the same period last year as of the end of July.
The job openings-to-applicants ratio, which indicates the number of job openings per student, was 2.08 times on a national average, 0.44 points lower than the same period last year, the lowest since 2010.
At this company, high schools in Ibaraki and Gunma prefectures made inquiries about employment exams for the first time, and the company information session received more than double the number of applications last year.
The company plans to increase the number of hires compared to last year due to plans to increase the number of new stores in the future.
Shinichi Hatori, the leader of the recruitment and education team in the Human Resources and General Affairs Department of the supermarket chain "OK", said, "I am feeling a change in the recruitment environment. I want to train and train. "