일본의 취업현황과 지도방안

Abstract

Due to COVID-19, a number of events related to employment in Japan have been cancelled. Still, there is a fair amount of students seeking a job in Japan and Japanese companies who want to hire Korean students. The present situation thus requires the precise information about the current state of employment in Japan and research which would be beneficial for those students seeking a job in Japan and those teachers who teach them. Such research, however, has not been conducted sufficiently. In this article, we grasp the current state of employment in Japan in order to present the “Q&As from a number of students” and the “method of analyzing job posting from Japanese companies” as the means of helping students obtain a job in Japan. As of April 2020, most of the students who were supposed to start their jobs in Japan stay in Korea. On the other hand, some IT companies held an entrance ceremony and a seminar for new employees. Some hotels “cancelled their job offers.” Those who are in Japan “work from home and cut working hours,” but their salary remains the same. In some hotel companies, however, only 60 percent of salary is provided, and not a small number of people have quit, changed their jobs, or returned to Korea. Finally, there are 193 Japanese companies who hire people in Korea, and IT companies account for 52 percent (101) of the total number (193), followed by service industry companies (43), generalists (25), and specialists (24). Students must bear in mind that job offers from service industry companies including hotel companies may be cancelled later. Also, as the teaching guide for those students who seek a job in Japan, we provide, and explain, concrete examples of “Q&As” about employment in Japan and “the method of analysing job posting.”