就職の不安/Anxious factors about job search in Japan

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Anxious factors about job search in Japan

A paper-based questionnaire survey was conducted to find out what kind of anxieties they had. Ninety-seven international students participated in the questionnaire survey. They were asked to answer the question, "are you anxious about job search in Japan? If so, mark all reasons that apply."

The result of the survey showed that the top two anxieties that foreign students had about job search in Japan were 1) language-related anxieties: writing CVs and entry sheets (writing skill) and job interviews (listening and speaking skills) and 2) anxieties about how to get information (Figure 1).

As for the Japanese language ability. there are glossary of job-hunting related technical terms which are rarely used in daily conversation. Therefore even advanced learners of Japanese need to learn these vocabularies. In addition, the fact that 54 students selected "I don't know know-how need to look for a job in Japan" and/or “I don't know how to get information” means that it is very important to convey necessary information to job-hunting students. 

 

 

 

 

 

How We Can Support International Students’ Job Hunting in Japan Seamlessly，Noriko Uosaki, Kousuke Mouri, Chengjiu Yin, Hiroaki Ogata，Proceedings of 26th International Conference on Computer in Education (ICCE2018), 527-529.