Recruitment of New High School Graduates as an “Asset Exchange Model”

Abstract

This study aims to clarify the practices and interactions in which the various actors constituting the local labor market support the employment of public high school correspondence course students and to make a tentative argument for a new model describing the recruitment of new high school graduates.

For a long time, recruiting new high school graduates has been understood as the “employment through school” model based on “performance relations,” that is, a screening model based on on-campus selection. However, this model has now lost its cogency, and a new model must be developed, especially for employment in high schools without sufficient resources such as correspondence high schools. In this study, we examine the ways in which each actor supports the employment of new high school graduates through interviews with various actors in the local labor market. The concluding section presents the possibility of constructing an “asset exchange model that differs from the conventional screening model.”