The job offer rate for university students who plan to graduate this spring was 84.4% as of last month, 1.4 percentage points higher than the same period last year, and the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare has said that the impact of the new coronavirus has been largely eliminated. increase.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare and the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology conducted a survey on the job hunting situation of university students who are scheduled to graduate this spring, extracting a total of 4,770 people from 62 universities nationwide.
According to this, the job offer rate as of the 1st of last month was 84.4%, which was 1.4 points higher than the same period of the previous year, and recovered for the second consecutive year from the decline caused by the corona.
By gender,
82.8% of male university
students and 86.5% of female university students are
1.5 points higher than the same period of the previous year.
In addition, in a survey of junior college students, the job offer rate was 69.4%, which was 6.6 points higher.
The Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare said, ``We have heard from universities that companies are highly motivated to hire, such as the return of job openings in industries such as tourism, which were affected by the new coronavirus, and we believe that the impact of the spread of infection has been largely eliminated. For students who have not received a job offer, we would like to cooperate with universities and other organizations to provide support."