Stop pressuring our students: Todai cautions companies – Japan Times

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1. Nothing like good old classic Japanese innovation in the face of increased competition for dwindling workforce.

   Offer a generous signing on bonus to secure early talent? Naaaaaaaaah, just bully them to phone the competition and withdraw! Sexually harass them or fill their free time up with meaningless “training” to stop them exploring options.

   We need them to understand the company spirit after all….

   LOL

2. >frequently attend social gatherings, endure long hours of job training or participate in study trips

   Simpler solution: change labor laws that explicitly requires firms to pay full employment wages + non-vacation benefits for making applicants being offered voluntary or involuntary attendance to social gatherings, long training, or study trips paid in any way by the company, recruiters, or officers of the company.

   >students are ordered to call other companies on the spot to declare that they will no longer consider finding jobs with them or sign a document

   This should be straight up illegal and any company doing this should be fined hundreds of million of ¥ plus pay for lost opportunity cost of an applicant as if they were employed for 5 years.

   It’s not fair to deceive and maliciously steal opportunities away from young impressionable adults who don’t know how the business world functions.

3. If i know university students, they’ll already be sharing about this on social media so the universities highlighting it should be helpful in making an issue out of it.

   Also, it’s quite good to see the companies in a panic because they’re low on manpower. I’ve heard that new graduates these days are starting to buck the trend of one company culture, and aren’t afraid to change company if they’re unhappy.

4. Nice humble brag by Todai

5. The statement also urged companies to instruct their employees in charge of recruitment not to engage in sexual harassment by “taking advantage of the weakness of students wishing to secure jobs.”

   Yeah, I wonder what that is code for.

6. If that’s how companies treat their elite prospects, how do you think they treat regular workers?

7. Hmmm what if they just gave them fucking SIGNING BONUSES??! oh wait no that will never work, people are never motivated by money. its hopeless

8. >In the worst cases, students are ordered to call other companies on the spot to declare that they will no longer consider finding jobs with them or sign a document promising to join a particular company if they wish to receive an informal employment offer from it, according to the experts.

   Ah yes, you have the choice to make your company the most attractive to woo potential candidates. Or you can go the other route… be bullying and abusive and use your power to stand over the person forcing them to do things that are detrimental to them but beneficial to you.