Simultaneous recruiting of new graduates
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Simultaneous Recruiting of New Graduates (新卒一括採用, Shinsotsu-Ikkatsu-Saiyou) is the custom that companies hire new graduates all at once and employ them. This custom is unique to Japan and South Korea. In Japan, Japanese post-war economic miracle spread this custom among many companies in order to produce steady employment every year.
In these countries ,most students do job hunting during their period of attendance at universities or high schools to get informal decisions of employment. The other sides, throughout employment is common in other countries, so people tend to do job-hunting after graduation.
Problems
Nowadays this traditional custom causes many social problems in Japan. If anyone in Japan cannot get decisions of employment before university graduation for various reasons, he will have enormous hardship finding a job, because most Japanese companies hire only new university graduates. This custom also deprives him of possibility of getting more excellent jobs never more. There are many criticism on this custom. One professor criticizes, if business is in a slump at point of one's graduation and he can not get a job, so this custom produces inequality of opportunity, and people in this age bracket tend to remain unemployed for a long time. Another professors criticizes, if this custom is joined to permanent employment, that produces closed markets of employment, where outplacement is hard, and the employees tend to obey any unreasonable demands of their companies so as not to be fired.
