Major staffing agency Pasona Group, Inc. has begun a full-scale service for universities nationwide, especially those located outside major metropolitan areas, to support students' job-hunting efforts.
The firm will provide services previously not provided by university job placement offices, such as teaching female students makeup techniques to impress recruiters.
Students of universities that signed contracts with Pasona will be able to use offices established by the company in Omotesando, Tokyo, and Umeda, Osaka, without charge. Pasona will provide recruitment information and conduct training programs, such as mock interviews, at the facilities. Pasona says the offices will function as additional employment bureaus of the universities.
In July, Pasona began providing job-hunting services on an experimental basis to students of Meiji Gakuin University in Tokyo and Bunri University of Hospitality in Saitama Prefecture. Since then, Pasona had been receiving numerous inquiries from local universities that offer little of recruitment information and have other student job-placement handicaps compared with universities in Tokyo and Osaka.
According to Pasona, students of such local universities are having difficulty following up and collecting the latest job information after visiting Tokyo for job-hunting, because their institutions do not have a base in Tokyo or adjacent prefectures. The positive response from local universities prompted Pasona to offer the service nationwide.
Pasona's recruitment services contracts cost 500,000 yen to 900,000 yen per month and are renewable yearly. Beginning with the prefectural University of Shimane in Hamada, Shimane Prefecture, the company plans to conclude contracts with about 50 universities to be able to support students through the upcoming spring recruitment season.
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