## Employment Measures for Young People

## Overview Major Employment Measures for Young People in FY2014

## 1 Employment support for new graduates and non-new graduates

© Promotion of the treating of non-new graduates within three years after graduation as new graduates, continued support for “not giving up being employed as regular employees” even after graduation, and retention support after employment, etc. will be strengthened at New Graduates Support Hello Works.

© Effort will be put into “Intensive Support for Unemployed Graduates 2014” for graduates that did not receive a job offer before graduating, and individual support by job supporters also be provided to them after graduation.

© A “Corporations Supporting the Young Announcement” project will be implemented in which small- and medium-sized enterprises with a specific administrative management system being developed, have submitted job offers for young people, actively employed/trained young people (younger than 35), and have actively published more detailed enterprise/employment information than ordinary recruitment information will be actively promoted as “corporations supporting the young”.

### 2. Promotion of regular employment of casual employees, etc

(1) Support for casual employees, etc. at Hello Works

In addition to ordinary vocational guidance/job placements and job offer developments, etc., close individual support from assigned consultants, appointment based vocational guidance/job placements, interview simulations, guidance on preparing personal history and work experience resumes, continued provision of job offer information, and encouragement to visit Hello Works if they have stopped visiting, etc. will be implemented.

(2) Implementation of close employment support at Job Cafes

(3) Employment support through utilization of the trial employment system, etc.

Transition to regular employment will be promoted by utilizing "trial employment" that provides an opportunity for employment on a trial basis for three months at enterprises through referrals made by Hello Works and worker dispatch businesses, etc.

### 3. Enhancement of vocational independence support for young people, including NEETs (Not in Education, Employment, or Training), etc

© Locations where “Regional Youth Support Stations” are established will be expanded (from 110 to 116), and vocational independence support enhanced through developing an out-reach (visiting support) system to use in leading young people to support desks.

©: New/enhanced measures, o: Continued measures

## Detailed Data

Changes in Number of Casual Employees

## (10,000 persons)

Source: “Labour Force Survey (Detailed Tabulation)”, Statistics Bureau, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

(Note) Casual employees were defined and counted as being male graduates or unmarried female graduates aged 15-34 and falling under one of the following:

[1] Employee whose status in the work place is that of being a “temporary part-timer” or “part-timer”

[2] Totally unemployed person seeking a “part-time or temporary part-time job”

[3] “Others” not in the labour force but seeking a “part-time or temporary part-time job” who are not housekeepers, not attending school, and do not have job offers