Survey on New Graduate Recruitment Plans for Spring 2023 (Preliminary Results) — published on Nikkei/Nikkei Business Daily/Nikkei MJ

Major companies' plans for hiring college graduates in spring 2023 will increase by 18.3% compared to the spring 2022 forecast. The highest growth in these years after the Lehman Brother's collapse, improving significantly from last year's 4.4% increase. Talents in the science and engineering field — those who will play the leading role in digitalization and carbon-zero — grew by 23.8%, excessively above the 15.9% increase in the humanities majors. The non-manufacturing sector was up 18.4%, a significant growth from the 3.2% of the previous year, reaching the same level as the manufacturing sector.