Employer’s Pressure to Student

As a negative impact of government-made economic growth, Japanese companies are positively making contract for employment with graduating college students this year. To secure smart human resources, managers are putting pressure to the students they have selected not to be filed in other companies. To counter those managers, students started criticizing companies as harassing young people.

In the time of high economic growth, as called bubble economy, Japanese companies were so aggressive in hiring graduating students. To keep brilliant senior college students in hand, firms made every effort to enclose them, including foreign travel in Hawaii or other summer resorts. It has been a typical tendency of employment in Japan, when companies are accumulating profits.

Enjoying temporary benefits falling down from Abenomics, companies in Japan are getting assertive in securing students. National government advised private firms not to make early contract for employment with students to avoid disturbing study in the last year in their college life. However, the effort of students to get the job is getting long after the government urged late recruiting.

In the process of searching job, students face various pressures from companies that they filed for a job. There are a lot of examples in which companies disturbed job searching of students. They include demanding the students to sign in a document that promises no further effort to search jobs after getting unofficial approval for assignment, making no contract with other companies a condition for hiring, dismissing all offers from other company by phone under the watch of human resource’s officer or demanding to attend monthly meetings for students having unofficial approval from the company.

After long period of labor market in which companies have been superior to job seekers in colleges, employers are aggressive in hiring new workers. But now, students have multiple requests of hiring from companies. They call the company’s behavior Owa-hara, an abbreviation of Oware, meaning demand of finishing job search, and harassment. Incompetent companies are more serious about keeping good students to hire than excellent corporations. It is fair to say that students are tired of unilateral job offers from companies, calling their behavior harassment. It is Japanese companies, which need to review their job offer.