Instructor@Sapporo Gakuin University
In the third year of my residence in Sapporo City, the family of Doctor S==, a Doctor of Jurisprudence, moved into the house across the road. He found my experience in assisting the senior job applicants by having them learn the structure of the labor market. He soon determined to introduce me to the department chair, who had long been anxious about the decreasing employment rate of the graduates.
I had no experience of being a student of any Japanese college and had a slightest idea on the situation of the labor market for the new college graduates. I did a thorough research by interviewing the faculties, the students, the employed graduates, the quit graduates, and the managers who had their new college graduate employees quit from them. I found a wide moat between what the graduates imagine as good place to work at and the reality.
I constructed a curriculum for the students to provide them with the broad and sometimes poignant knowledge about the reality of both their future workplaces and their career building alternatives. The class was initially a mandatory course for the freshmen law students. The classroom was often filled with more than 200 students. The students’ evaluation at the semester end over the lecture quality continued to be the top of all the courses in the department.
The sequel course for the sophomore students started from Apr. 2005. The school determined to expand the course for the students of almost all the departments from Apr. 2006. As my client companies in Tokyo gradually increased, I decided to quit the college instructor job. The total number of the enrolled students in my classes altogether reached more than 4000. The six year experience of continuous mass education was rare to have. The profound and practical expertise on the college graduate labor market has been valuable enough to later bring me many planning jobs of the college graduate recruitment.