Over the past three years, about two-thirds of domestically employed vocational high school graduates have been employed within the regions (city, province-level) of their high schools. 41.2% of the local government officers responsible responded that ‘preference for employment by local companies among vocational high school graduates is low.’ This is 31.4%p higher than the proportion of officers at the Office of Education who responded similarly, 26.9%p higher than the proportion of HR managers at companies who responded similarly, and 10.5%p higher than the proportion of heads of career departments at schools who responded similarly.
Local government officials responded that there was a weak demand for employment support to high school graduates within the local community and, in general, assessed low needs for employment support items to vocational high schools.
Although the rate of awareness of the central government’s high school graduate employment policy by local government officials was low at 14.9%, the response on the need for improvement in employment support for high school graduates by the local government was high at 80.0%.