Don't leave ... Students pay attention at the seller market

While job-hunting continues to provide a favorable "seller market" for students, students who have received a job offer from multiple companies are forced to contact with a "rejection of job offer." A letter set was released last month that responded to such worries as to how to talk to the company that chose you and has attracted attention from students and university officials.

A Japanese stationery maker in Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, released a letter set called “Japanese Decision Set” last month.

It allows students who want to decline a job offer to easily create a letter to be sent to the company, including a set of stationery, an envelope, an underlay with printed sentences, and a commentary book.

The commentary states that when you decline a job offer, you should first send a letter telling you that you want to decline to the company and then call the person in charge. You can write beautiful expressions in beautiful characters.

In addition, there is also a method of refusal of a job offer that does not cause trouble and a login ID for a special WEB page, and you can watch commentary videos on how to call the company concretely.

According to the Director of Development, Yoshihisa Iida of the Japanese law involved in the development, it was said that there were some students from universities who had left the office without contacting them to inform them that they had decided to decline the job offer, or that they had contacted them via SNS rather than by telephone. That was the trigger.

One set sold 5,000 yen for 550 yen, but some stores have already sold out, and inquiries from universities and other sources are continuing.

Mr. Iida said, "Current students feel that communication has been simplified and a gap has been created with companies. Therefore, I thought that students would not be able to cope without detailed instructions on how to communicate, so I developed this set. The purpose is to avoid trouble when taking the first step as a member of society, and if you tell your feelings in your own words, you can understand the company, so this set should be the starting point. I think. "

68.5% of all jobs offered by two or more companies

In a questionnaire survey conducted last August by university and graduate students registered by the employment information site “My Navi”, 2595 of 8314% of the 3142 respondents received a job offer. Was.

The percentage of students who received a job offer from multiple companies was 31% for "2 companies" and 37.5% for "3 or more companies." The average number of job offers per employee was 2.4, "Companies with 2 or more companies." 68.5% of all respondents got a job offer.

This is 5.1 points higher than the previous year and the highest since 2012, when the record is high.

According to "My Navi", the "seller market", which is advantageous for students, is expected to continue in earnest and job hunting in the future.

"I feel uncomfortable if I decline the job offer"

Third-year students from the Meiji University Career Support Center came to consult about employment activities.

Regarding refusal of the job offer, a female college student said, "It was very nervous that a senior who finished job hunting was nervous about making a phone call to refuse the job offer. He would decline the job offer of the company that chose me. I don't think it's painful, and I don't call companies very often, so if I do, I'm nervous. "

Also, a male college student said, "It's very difficult because we have to finally narrow down to one company. When a senior in a seminar told me that he had declined a job offer, some companies said he would do his best with a bright feeling. I heard that there were companies that didn't say so well, "Yes, that's right," so I have to think about how to say them. "

Regarding the launch of the "decided to decline job offer", a female college student said, "I am not confident in the correct way to decline a job offer. I might rely on such a product." .

"I want to tell you the proper way to decline."

According to the Meiji University Employment Career Support Center, students who have several job offers since June, when recruitment interviews with major companies have started, have been asked in the last few years, "How do I contact me, but how do I contact me?" I submitted a letter of consent to a company, but how do I decline? "

Some of the students who came to the center to consult with the center said, "I want you to listen to the contents because I will refuse the company," and some students leave without contacting the company. Many students are worried about meeting with a company representative or making phone calls to communicate.

Yoshinobu Haraguchi of the Employment Career Support Center at Meiji University stated, "Several times a year, there are reports from companies that we have lost contact with the unofficial candidate. If you contact a student here, it is scary to decline the informal offer. In some cases. "

In addition, Haraguchi says that the spread of SNS has reduced the number of opportunities for students to use the phone, and he is not familiar with communicating directly with the other party.

Mr. Haraguchi says, "I think the influence of SNS has an effect. Since students now have fewer opportunities to talk on the phone, they are not accustomed to telling them about the important things of contacting by phone or rejecting a job offer. I'll tell you to contact me at the end of the call. You.

For this reason, at universities, students listen directly to seniors who work for students and distribute a "Job Hunting Handbook" containing a job hunting manual, and teach that refusal of a job offer is basically communicated by telephone or face-to-face. That you are doing.

Regarding the release of the "recruitment refusal set" this time, Mr. Haraguchi said, "When I heard that there was a recruitment rejection set, I was worried that I had to cope with this step, but I declined I don't think there's much to learn how to do this, so I think it makes sense. It's unavoidable for students to take more than one job offer, but I'd like to give them an appropriate way to decline in order not to bother companies. " I was talking.