College students start their job hunting from their junior year. The timing students can start job hunting (i.e. the timing companies can start holding their hiring sessions) is determined under an agreement among companies, schools, and the government.
The timing was October of students' junior year, which was recently made later to December which seems to be further delayed to March. The reason for these movements to delay the timing is due to concerns that students cannot concentrate on their school works by starting their job hunting so early of the middle of their junior years.
Although lifetime employment concept in Japan is diminishing, it is still true that many Japanese work at the same company through their lives and thus job hunting is very important for the students.
However, not many students know their own adequacy, what sort of companies exist in markets, which way to go, etc., etc. Remember they are still 20 or so years old!
Due to this difficult situation, many students tend to choose large, stable, and established company, which is supposed to exist for at least the students' life time and guarantee their lives. It is not usual that students select their job to match to their adequacy or what they really want to do, particularly under the current tough job market situations. A list of popular companies among new grads is announced every year and has large companies in high orders.
Life is only once and very short, we all should enjoy it. However, we first need income to live our lives and job, which provides us with stable income. These young guys are smart enough to understand it somehow...
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