今春大卒の就職率９６％　過去２番目の下落幅、コロナで採用抑制―厚労・文科省

　厚生労働省と文部科学省が１８日まとめた２０２１年３月卒業の大学生の就職率（４月１日現在）は９６．０％となり、前年同時期に比べ２．０ポイント低下した。１９９７年に調査を開始して以来、リーマン・ショック後の１０年卒（３．９ポイント低下）に次ぐ過去２番目の下落幅を記録。新型コロナウイルス感染拡大が直撃した観光・航空業界などの企業が新卒採用を抑制し、希望する職種に就けない学生が増えた。
　２１年卒の就職活動は新型コロナ流行の時期と重なった。企業説明会の中止などで情報収集の機会が減り、内定獲得を目指す学生への影響が深刻化した。厚労省の担当者は、昨年１０月時点の内定率（７．０ポイント低下の６９．８％）と比べて減少幅が縮小し、一定の水準まで上昇したと評価しつつも、未就職のまま卒業した人には「きめ細かな支援を行いたい」と語った。（2021/05/18-09:59）

The proportion of new university graduates in Japan who secured jobs as of April 1, the first day of the nation's fiscal 2021, stood at 96.0 pct, down 2.0 percentage points from a year before, a survey by the labor and education ministries showed Tuesday.
   The drop was second biggest since the survey began in 1997. The biggest year-on-year decline in the job-securing rate as of April 1 was 3.9 points, recorded for students who graduated in March 2010, after the September 2008 collapse of U.S. investment bank Lehman Brothers, which fueled the global financial crisis at the time.
   The latest survey suggested that many of the students who graduated in March were unable to land jobs they hoped, with companies in the tourism, airline and other industries hit hard by the fallout of the novel coronavirus epidemic having curbed new hiring.
   The COVID-19 crisis had a serious impact on students' job-hunting activities as opportunities to collect information decreased partly because of the cancellations of corporate job seminars.
   Still, the job-securing rate recovered to a certain level, an labor ministry official said, noting that the size of the drop as of April 1 shrank from the 7.0 points in the proportion of students with informal job offers as of October last year. The rate in October 2020 stood at 69.8 pct. At the same time, the official said, "We want to offer full support" to those who graduated without being able to land jobs.