There
are three principal types of employment agencies.
A.
Public Employment Offices
Public employment offices, known as Hello
Work, provide job placement services free
of charge.
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There are about 600 public employment security
offices spread throughout Japan. In addition,
there is the Human Resource Bank, which
handles personnel skilled in professional
fields such as management and engineering.
The bank has 26 offices located in major
cities like Tokyo and Osaka. And, there
are 195 Part Bank offices which specialize
in part-time employment.
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The public offices handle all sort of job
placements and have large pools of employers
and job seekers. Thus, they have up-to-date
information on the job demand-supply situation,
current wage rates, and so forth.
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Agency offices are interconnected by a computer
network, allowing them to exchange available
job information and reach job seekers nationwide.
- Some
agency offices in major cities provide job
placement information on the Internet. The
remaining offices plan to follow suit. (The
web site address is https://www.hellowork.go.jp/)
B.
Private Employment Agencies
Private employment agencies are allowed to
handle all types of jobs with the exception
of construction and longshoring work. There
were 5,322 private agencies operating as of
August 2001, a number that has been increasing
in recent years.
The
commission paid to an agency upon successful
employment is said to range between 25 and
30% of the annual wage in case of white collar
workers.
C.
Labour Dispatch Business
The labour dispatch business can handle all
types of jobs except those in the fields of
longshoring, construction, security, medicine,
and manufacturing.
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