Changes in the Employment Information Services that Mediate Companies and University Students An Examination of Activities in the 1990s and 2000s

キギョウ　ダイガクセイ　ヲ　バイカイ　スル　シュウショク　ジョウホウ　サービス　ノ　ヘンカ　90ネンダイ　カラ　００ネンダイ　ニ　オケル　カツドウ　ジキ　ノ　ケントウ　ヲ　ツウジテ

Senoo, Asami

オオサカ ダイガク ダイガクイン ニンゲン カガク ケンキュウカ シャカイガク ニンゲンガク ジンルイガク ケンキュウシツ

Sociology, Anthropology and Philosophy, Graduate School of Human Sciences, Osaka University

採用

就職情報サービス

自由応募

大学生

new university graduate

job hunting

recruitment

employment information services

open entry

Research Notes

This paper reviews changes in university graduate employment and recruitment activities in the 1990s and 2000s and describes underlying transformations in employment information services with a focus on “standard jobhunting activities.” Since the 1990s, new university graduates have undergone structural and institutional changes. Employment information services have been responsible for matching infrastructure between companies and university students (Sano 2005). At the same time, employment and recruitment activities have become longer, faster, more carefully selected, and more complicated (Honda 2010). This paper reexamines such activities and elucidates the situations of companies, employment information services, and university students during the aforementioned period. The review demonstrates that the employment and recruitment activities have significantly changed since the late 1990s. Job hunting services are widely accessible, companies hold information sessions, and entry sheets are made at the first step of selection following which selections are made. An examination of the situations of companies, employment information services, and university students demonstrates that although university students have pursued opportunities in difficult employment situations, more companies have begun to use employment information services since the spread of internet technology. Employment information services promote more effi cient hiring for companies and provide better choices for individual students. As a result, “standard job-hunting activities” characterized by open entry, separation of information sessions and selections, and application via the Internet have accelerated competition among companies and university students.