English Essay 2
Taichi Yonemori
The Japanese Traditional System in Recruitment
In recently, I have many opportunities of a participation of internship in Japanese companies because I am third-year university student. In this situation, all people who I met in the place of job hunting say Japanese traditional system in job hunting is not efficiency between university student and Japanese company and should change it to the job hunting system of the world. In this reference, I was very confused and have the question that which is good way of job hunting in Japan and the world. In this essay, I want to compare the difference of Japanese system and American system in job hunting.
In Japan, there is the word “New Graduate Supremacy” because there is the unique system of hiring fresh graduates all at once in Japan. This is a job offer for new graduate to be graduated for every year. Graduates are recruited during the school year and they start to work immediately after the graduation. It is a unique job habit practiced in Japan unlike the world to make it work.
In US, There is not the system of recruiting new graduates. However, this country is a super educational society that emphasizes major, grades, activities at university in new graduates. Moreover interns experience in company is important in order to win the recruitment to target companies. In Mid-career recruitment, they requires special skills such as programming and qualification. However most important for them is that they have the connection to hunt a job in the headquarters of popular companies such as Silicon Valley. After entering once it is easy to change a job and to be the famous business person. Flies but the walls to that extent are thick. Moreover, in US business culture, excellent people is not the first class enterprise but the option of starting business is the highest status as opposed to japan.
In the Hong Kong, the value of the graduate is nothing. Rather, it is likely to be negative that there is not the experience in the society. It is immediate fight that is required in this country. This country also do not have the culture of recruiting new graduates. Conversely, if people have special business skills, the possibility of being hired is dramatically improved. From the climate of the limited national land and market, there is also the system of introducing a job from acquaintance to get job. That is to say, there is no concept of hiring season in Japanese culture.
As already mentioned, it is common for overseas graduates to recruit new graduates all year round. Globalization is also being said in Japan nowadays, but why is graduate recruitment continuing all together? This is because it is an indispensable part to support Japanese employment practices. Japanese employment practices are established while complementing each other, such as lifetime employment, seniority wage, internal training, job rotation, and retirement age. One graduate school recruitment is one of those systems.
There is a special position of Japan in the Meiji era as a background to the creation of such a system.
During the Meiji period, Japan was a backward country. Therefore, we had to set our national strength quickly. So Japan had to recruit a lot of people all at once to make it as a teacher and a student. Just like school education still in the form of collective lessons, we also created a culture where many employees can work by hiring one company at a time.
For this reason, it is not easy to reform this as recruitment of new graduates is deeply rooted in Japanese corporate culture. Also, various unique systems to benefit from this are developed in Japan, and introducing overseas year-round recruitment may have more disadvantages.
I think that Japan should change its own recruitment system to rejuvenate overseas and revitalize Japan. However, in order to realize this, I think that Japanese society should change the institution of university before changing the employment system. As in the world, if you introduce graduation in September, it is easy for foreign students who think I want to work in Japan to hunt a job in Japan. Also for Japanese students who study abroad, if graduation becomes the same as the world, it is not necessary to delay graduation by one year due to study abroad. People should know that new graduate recruitment culture is a deeply rooted culture in Japan, so it will not get better if you change only this. In order to change the graduate recruitment culture, I think that we must change the basis of school education that lasts long after the war.In these situations, I think that the best way to change the recruiting new graduates in Japanese society is to improve the basis of school education step by step. I think this effort will lead to change the recruitment new graduates.
Reference
Traditional Employment Practices in Japan
Japan Times
Job-Hunting in Japan | UNIV. IN JAPAN
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