It's been while since Japan began to see decline in students studying abroad. Now Chinese are the largest among international students studying in the U.S. The inward tendency has become the tendency of Japanese students.
Studying abroad widens your view of the world. If you stay long enough, you start to understand why things go in what direction and how. You may question why your home country do or doesn't do in this way or that way.
One of my major question is, why Japan still maintains simultaneous recruitment of newly graduate. I do know it was ideal for recovering Japanese economy. But, now the growth stopped or even declined, but the tradition continues. It is widely discussed that this employment style does not fit with current Japanese economy. But, companies keep doing anyway. It looks like they don't know any other way to hire.
This produces discrimination in age. Older graduates, with higher degree and more experience, are shut from the opportunity simple because they have already graduated. Only because you study abroad and could not make it on the recruiting schedule, you lose the opportunity even if you may be able to bring new idea, different view into the company. It's discrimination. If a company recruited in this style, you will be accused of violation of civil rights laws.
I join the argument that the fear of not being on schedule keeps students from studying abroad. Many are caught in finding jobs and forget about academic work and your dream. Instead of choosing what you want to do in career, employers have a say and give you training in what they want you to do. And that's bad because this gives companies a whole lot of power in your life.
My parents seem misunderstanding my dream. They think that I want to make a living with helping other. That's not wrong, but it's more than that. They think I can help others even if I work in a big private company. Maybe. But that's not totally true. Private companies' ultimate purpose is to make profit and distribute to stockholders, sometimes even by taking advantage of the weak. Great Recession are triggered by loans made for those who could not pay back. As a result, a lot of people lost jobs and houses.
That's not what I want to do. I want to work for an organization whose purpose is to make the world better place to live. I do understand I need to feed myself, but I want to utilize what I have learned for good cause, not just making money.
Any system made by human is not perfect. But this Japanese recruiting system should be removed, ASAP.
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