80+% of High School Seniors have job offers
Not everyone in Japan plans to go on to university. Japanese companies seem happy to give them a place to go. Japan needs workers.
For the fourth year in a row Japan's high school seniors have seen an increase in job offers and for the first time in nine year, more than 80% (81.5%, up 3.6% over last year) have a job when they graduate next month.
Japan expects to graduate 220,000 high school seniors.
A good business with a good training program can train a kid right out of high school sometimes better than they can be trained in college.
After all, most think kids in college in Japan spend four years getting 'whatever' out of their system before they go into the work force.
Of course, I believe in college…but my faith is weakening.
Which do you think is better – four years of college, or four years of on the job training at the company you want to work for?
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February 16, 2007
I was a Japanese export to US having graduated from an university. Then I went to work as a sales person for corporate America where I saw more high school grads earning higher income than college graduates. It’s fine as long as they want to stay working as associates, but if they want to get into upper management, many corporations require college diplomas. So I would say for those whose intention is to “move up” in the corporate ladder, going to college can benefit them.