## Employment Measures for Young People

## Overview

## Major Employment Measures for Young People in FY2013

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

© In order to implement more efficient matches between students and small- and medium-sized enterprises, job supporter consultation desks will be established or on-site consultations enhanced at universities, etc. In addition, “New Graduates Support Hello Works” or “New Graduates Support Hello Work Branches” will be established at Hello Works with universities and within their jurisdictions.

© Effort will be put into “Intensive Support for Unemployed Graduates 2013” 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 (job-hopping part-timers), etc

(1) Support for Casual Employees, etc. at Hello Works

○ Refer to “step-up program for young people” below

(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” (no more than ¥40,000 per person, and 3 months at maximum) that provides an opportunity for employment on a trial basis for 3 months at enterprises through referrals made by Hello Works

### Enhancement of employment support of Casual Employees, etc. through the “step-up program for young people”

The “step-up program for young people”, which further enhances employment support for Casual Employees, etc., including the job-finding ice age generations, will be promoted through the utilization of trial employment and vocational training, etc. and with its core being specialized individual support. In particular, bases will be established in large cities in ensuring effective implementation.

* 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.

### 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 (job-hopping part-timers)

## (10,000 persons)

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

(Note) 1. Casual Employees (job-hopping part-timers) were defined and counted as being male graduates or unmarried female

graduates aged 15-34 and falling under being 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

2. The figures for 2011 in square brackets are reference complementary estimates retroactively estimated using the estimated population based on the results of the 2010 Population Census for the period of between March and August when the survey proved difficult to complete due to the effect of the Great East Japan Earthquake.