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What Hurdles Are Young Female Regular Employees Facing in Japan? Recent Changes in the Young Generation's Career Attitudes
(Published originally in Japanese on April 22, 2025 and later revised for Japan Labor Issues Vol.9, no.53 Summer 2025.)
On April 1, the beginning of the fiscal year, university students and other people who will graduate in the spring of next year officially begin job hunting. In recent years, the young labor market has been a seller’s market beyond the level seen during the bubble economy. Under such circumstances, young people’s attitudes toward their careers have been changing. This article presents some of the findings that capture the changes in young people’s experience in their first job1 as the starting point of their career, from the results of Japan Institute for Labour Policy and Training (JILPT)’s “3rd Survey on Skills Development of Young People and Their Retention in the Workplace” conducted in November 2023 (hereinafter, the “3rd Survey”).
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