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Japanese university students job-seeking activities

Are you using social media for your job-hunting? graph of japanese statisticsMacromill research recently published a fascinating survey on one of the many phenomena in Japan I don?t quite understand university students and their recruitment activities.

Demographics

Between the 9th and 11th of Februrary 2013 300 members of the Macromill monitor group who lived in the Kanto area (Ibaraki, Tochigi, Gunma, Saitama, Chiba, Kanagawa prefectures and Tokyo) and were in their third year in university or first year of a masters degree and engaged in job-seeking activites completed a private internet-based questionnaire. The sample was exactly 50:50 male and female.

If any of my readers have been through the Japanese recruitment cycle, please feel free to post about it, but as far as I know, students start around the middle of their third (of four) year to look for a job, submitting their applications, attending job fairs, getting interviews and all the rest, all at the expense of their studies. The hoped-for outcome is a firm job offer at the start of their fourth year, which could be seen as a plus to allow them to study hard for their last year, but I see it as basically making the last year pretty pointless.

Research results

Q1: When did you start job-seeking activities? (Sample size=300)

As soon as I entered university 4.0%
First year of university (June to March) 1.3%
Second year of university, spring (April to June) 2.3%
Second year of university, summer (July to September) 3.0%
Second year of university, autumn (October to December) 6.3%
Second year of university, winter (January to March) 6.7%
Third year of university, spring (April to June) 25.7%
Third year of university, summer (July to September) 17.3%
Third year of university, autumn (October to December) 22.0%
Third year of university, winter (January to March) 7.0%
Other 4.3%

Q2: How many companies have you applied to? (Sample size=300, free answer)

Male average 36.2 companies
Female average 39.2 companies

Q3: Which of the following job-seeking have you done? (Sample size=300, multiple answer)

Registered with job-seeking site 94.7%
Attended a corporate information session 85.7%
Got guidance from school 80.0%
Applied to a company via the web 75.3%
Attended a job-seeking fair, mass information session 67.7%
Did a self-analysis 58.3%
Research industries, corporations 56.3%
Requested company brouchures 29.3%
Attended an online corporate information session 21.7%
Took an intern post 19.3%
Visited a previous graduate in person 14.3%
Attended interview techniques training, seminar 10.3%
Got in touch with a previous graduate through SNS 8.7%
Other 1.3%

Q4: How useful do you think the following job-seeking media, tools, services, etc, are? (Sample size=300, multiple answer)

? Very useful Somewhat useful Not very useful Not useful at all
Computer 71.7% 26.0% 2.0% 0.3%
Smartphone 61.0% 31.7% 4.7% 2.7%
Non-smart mobile phone 10.0% 43.3% 34.7% 12.0%
Job-seeking support web site 40.3% 52.0% 5.3% 2.3%
Information from university careers program 33.3% 55.0% 9.3% 2.3%
Newspapers 28.0% 53.3% 13.7% 5.0%
Company introduction material such as brochures 32.7% 57.3% 7.7% 2.3%
Job-hunting manuals, interview, manner, etc, technique books 34.7% 53.0% 9.3% 3.0%
Word of mouth job-hunting sites 22.3% 52.0% 21.0% 4.7%
Recruitment information magazines 21.0% 63.0% 12.7% 3.3%
Ordinary publications (Company Quarterly, etc) 25.0% 54.7% 16.0% 4.3%

Q5: Are you using blogs, BBS, SNS, Twitter or other social media for your job-hunting? (Sample size=300)

Q5SQ1: Which SNS are you using for job-hunting? (Sample size=125, multiple answer)

Facebook 77.6%
Twitter 72.0%
LINE 21.6%
mixi 14.4%
Linkedin 1.6%
Other 2.4%

Q5SQ2: Why do you use social media for job-hunting? (Sample size=125, multiple answer)

To get latest information 68.0%
Interested in what others are doing 40.0%
Find out the truth about dodgy companies 24.8%
Share information with others interested in the same industry 24.8%
Apply to companies, register interest through Facebook 21.6%
Can talk to a company via social media 20.0%
To discuss worries, relieve stress 14.4%
To promote myself to companies 8.8%
To get in touch with graduates, network with people 8.8%
Other 4.8%

Q5SQ3: Are you aware that companies might be looking at your social media profiles, comments, etc? (Sample size=191)

Yes 70.7%
No 28.3%
Other 1.0%

Q6: When choosing a company, what information would you like to have about them? (Sample size=300, multiple answer)

Company culture, atmosphere 79.7%
Work environment 63.0%
Benefits 58.7%
Future salary 56.7%
Concrete description of work 56.3%
Detailed description of operations 53.3%
Transfers, reassignments after entering work 52.3%
Future personal growth, direction 50.3%
How easy it is to take holidays 46.3%
Average overtime hours 46.3%
Company internal training scheme 38.0%
Management principles, vision 36.8%
Ease of working after marriage, childbirth 33.3%
Career development 33.0%
Evaluation system 29.3%
Industry competitiveness 29.3%
Other 0.3%

Q7: How worried are you about your job-seeking activities? (Sample size=300)

Very worried (to SQ) 44.7%
A little worried (to SQ) 41.3%
Not really worried 12.7%
Not worried at all 1.3%

Q7SQ: What worries do you have about your job-seeking activities? (Sample size=258, multiple answer)

Vague worries, impatiences 84.9%
Job-seeking is expensive 50.0%
Haven?t got anything to sell myself with 48.4%
Am not finding work I want to do 35.3%
Cannot research companies, industries 31.8%
Don?t know how to go about gathering information 26.4%
Don?t have anyone to talk to 22.9%
Not getting past the interview, written test 21.3%
Not getting my application accepted 20.5%
Other 3.9%

Q8: This year?s recruitment activities for 2013 graduates started two months later than usual. Given the shorter time period, what have you done to improve the efficiency of information gathering, company and industry understanding, etc? (Sample size=300, multiple answer)

Used spare moments to gather information, apply to companies via smartphone 54.3%
Learnt interview techniques, read successful applicant stories in job-seeking books 34.8%
Grasped the company atmosphere from their Facebook page, blog 31.0%
Used news curation service to collate news articles 15.0%
Interned to get rid of the gap after entering a company 10.7%
Used SNS to communicate directly with the company, previous graduates 6.0%
Other 8.7%

Q9: ?Charisma Confirmed Offer Men? (or women) are people who have got firm job offers from multiple companies. There are SNS that gather together their job-seeking techniques to guide other students. What do you think about ?Charisma Confirmed Offer Men?? (Sample size=300)

? Think so Perhaps think so Don?t really think so Don?t think so at all
I want to learn from them 20.3% 41.0% 25.3% 13.3%
I look up to them 20.0% 37.3% 24.7% 18.0%
I want to be like them 20.0% 34.0% 30.0% 16.0%
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