大学生内定率７４．１％　経済回復、２年連続プラス―１０月

　厚生労働省と文部科学省は１８日、２０２３年３月に卒業予定の大学生の就職内定率が、１０月１日時点で７４．１％だったと発表した。前年同期比２．９ポイント上昇。新型コロナウイルス感染拡大で落ち込んだ経済の回復や人手不足を背景に、２年連続で前年を上回った。
　企業の採用意欲が高まり、早期に内定を得た学生が増えたとみられる。ただ、コロナ禍直前の３年前の水準（７６．８％）には届かなかった。（2022/11/18-15:00）

Jobs were informally offered to 74.1 pct of job-seeking university students set to graduate next March as of Oct 1., up 2.9 percentage points from a year before, a survey by the labor and health ministries showed on Friday.
   The share of students landing jobs rose for the second straight year against a backdrop of labor shortages and an economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.
   While companies' increased willingness to hire is believed to have allowed more students to get jobs early, the share with offers fell short of 76.8 pct three years ago, just before the pandemic began.
   Both male and female students fared better than a year before, with 72.7 pct and 75.7 pct offered jobs for after graduation, respectively.
   The share was up 2.7 points at 73.5 pct for those majoring in humanities and social sciences and up 4.0 points at 76.6 pct for science majors.