Recruitment in Japan to be varied if Sept. school year introduced

Firms in Japan are likely to accelerate changes to their April recruitment schedules if the government decides to push the start of the academic year to September in the wake of school closures due to the spread of the novel coronavirus.While most companies in Japan hire in line with graduations held in March, the government places restrictions on their schedules to prevent them from recruiting early in an attempt to get all the best students.Companies can only hold information sessions from March of a student's third year in university, interviews from June of their fourth year, and make o…READ FULL ARTICLE