This report analyses the situation in regard to job-seeking among doctoral graduates, based on a survey that was conducted in February and March 2011. The results show that about one third of respondents (ordinary doctoral graduates who have experience of job-seeking during their doctoral course, N: 1,055) have at least one institution outside Japan in mind as a candidate employer when they became doctoral students, and at least half the respondents simultaneously consider many kinds of institution in Japan (including universities, private companies and public research organizations) as places of employment. In fact, however the ratio of respondents applying for posts in foreign institutions is around one in eight doctoral graduates, and the ratio who simultaneously apply for jobs in many kinds of domestic institutions is also low (one in four doctoral graduates). Furthermore, the period spent in job-seeking differs depending on whether the graduate is seeking work within educational institutions and private companies, and different institutions require differing ratios of time to be spent in applying for work.
Analysis of job-seeking attitudes and activities of Doctoral Graduates from universities in Japan during Fiscal 2010[RESEARCH MATERIAL No.212](Japanese)