Among high school-educated new recruits, 39.9% start their first job as non-regular employees. By gender, the rate is higher for male graduates (48.9%) than female graduates (33.6%).
Once such obstacles as military duty are resolved, 32.2% of males move from non-regular employment to regular employment, which is higher than females with 24.5%.
Of the new recruits who graduated from general high schools, 27.3% were over-educated and 29.0% were over-skilled given their current job, whereas the respective figures were lower at 18.1% and 22.7% in the case of people who graduated from specialized vocational high schools.
16.2% of the high school-educated recruits participated in the Employment First-University Later program, and only 6.6% received financial support from their employers for participating in the program. Meanwhile, only 31.1% experienced earning a degree contributed to a pay rise or promotion.