Finding Jobs and Reading Job Listings

You registered as a job seeker on the Hello Work Internet Service (ハローワークインターネットサービス) without visiting an office. Which statement about your status is correct?

1. Registration can only be done at an office, so the online entry is just a temporary record and you cannot even search job listings
2. You can register, but you become an "online registrant" (オンライン登録者) and some My Page functions are unavailable; after being checked by staff at Hello Work, you become a "registered user" (利用登録者)
3. Registering online gives you every My Page function right away, exactly the same as registering at an office
4. People without a My Number Card cannot register as job seekers online

Which statement correctly describes Hello Work's "online self-application" (オンライン自主応募)?

1. A service in which Hello Work staff check your preferences and send matching job listings to your My Page
2. A function that lets you apply from My Page to every job listing registered with Hello Work
3. A function that automatically issues a Hello Work referral letter when you apply from My Page, so the application counts as a job referral
4. A function for applying directly from My Page to a listing you found yourself, without a Hello Work referral; only listings that accept self-applications are eligible

Which statement about the "online Hello Work referral" (オンラインハローワーク紹介) available through My Page is correct?

1. Only registered users are eligible, and the application deadline for a referred listing is one week in principle
2. Anyone with My Page, including online registrants, is eligible, and there is no application deadline
3. Only registered users are eligible, but you can apply to a referred listing at any time until the listing is withdrawn
4. It is a service in which you choose a listing yourself, and Hello Work then sends you a referral letter for it

Which statement about private employment placement agencies (such as recruitment agencies) is correct?

1. No license is needed to start the business, so anyone can freely provide job placement
2. Job seekers usually pay a registration fee when they sign up, regardless of the type of job
3. A license from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare is required, and fees may be charged to job seekers only in limited cases, such as entertainers and models, or managers earning more than 7 million yen a year
4. In principle, the agency collects a success fee from the job seeker, a percentage of annual salary, when a job offer is made

On a Hello Work job listing, how should you read the amount shown as the pay received every month?

1. It is the base salary only and does not include allowances or fixed overtime pay
2. It is take-home pay, after income tax and social insurance contributions have already been deducted
3. It is the total of base salary, fixed allowances and fixed overtime pay, and income tax, social insurance contributions and so on will be deducted from it
4. It is the maximum you can receive in a month, including commuting allowance and expected overtime pay

A job listing says: "Base salary 180,000 yen; fixed overtime pay 40,000 yen (for 20 hours a month)." Which statement correctly describes this fixed overtime pay?

1. It pays 20 hours of overtime in advance as a fixed amount; it is paid even in months with no overtime, and overtime beyond 20 hours is paid separately
2. No matter how many hours of overtime you work, overtime pay stops at 40,000 yen
3. It is paid only in months when you actually work overtime, so the 40,000 yen is not paid in months with no overtime
4. Having fixed overtime pay means you must always work up to 20 hours of overtime every month

On a Hello Work job listing, the field for the two-days-off-a-week system (週休二日制) says "Other" (その他). How should you read this?

1. It is a full two-days-off-every-week system, with Saturday and Sunday always off
2. It is not a two-days-off system; you get only one day off a week
3. The company does not set days off, so you can choose any two days each week
4. It is a two-days-off system other than the full weekly type, so you do not necessarily get two days off every week

A job listing says: "Probation: yes (3 months). Monthly salary 190,000 yen during probation; 200,000 yen after formal hiring." Which statement about this wording is correct?

1. Since the probation salary is 190,000 yen, it means the salary after formal hiring has not been decided yet
2. Because conditions differ during probation and after formal hiring, it shows each set of conditions separately
3. Listings with a probation period do not need to state the salary during probation, so this wording includes unnecessary information
4. It is normal to learn the conditions during probation only after you join the company

For job listings from April 1, 2024 onward, which set of working conditions was newly added to the items shown on a job listing?

1. The scope of possible changes to duties, the scope of possible changes to the workplace, and the criteria for renewing a fixed-term contract (including any cap on total contract period or number of renewals)
2. Wages, working hours and days off
3. The scope of possible changes to duties, the scope of possible changes to the workplace, and the company's sales and number of employees
4. Hours covered by fixed overtime pay, the probation period, and measures against secondhand smoke

The annual paid leave field on a job listing says "At hiring: 0 days; after 6 months: 10 days." How should you read this?

1. It is a record showing that employees at this company actually take an average of 10 days of paid leave a year
2. You can use 10 days of paid leave right after joining
3. It shows the number of days you are able to take, not the number of days actually taken
4. It means paid leave can be used only on days the company designates