Firms in Japan are likely to accelerate changes to their April recruitment schedules if the government decides to push the start of the academic year to September, following school closures due to the spread of COVID-19.
While most companies in the nation hire in line with graduations held in March, the government places restrictions on their schedules to prevent them from recruiting early in an attempt to monopolize the best students.
Companies can only hold information sessions from March of a student's third year in university, interviews from June of their fourth year and then make offers from October that same year.