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50,000 'career counselor' posts to be created in 5 years.


TOKYO, Sept. 21 Kyodo

The government plans to create posts for 50,000 career counselors in the next five years to help people who are seeking jobs or want to change jobs, Health, Labor and Welfare Minister Chikara Sakaguchi Chikara Sakaguchi (坂口力 Sakaguchi Chikara, born April 1, 1934) is a Japanese politician.

He was born in Mie Prefecture and obtained an MD from Mie University.
 said Friday.

''We will create 10,000 career counselor posts in each year and 50,000 in five years. If necessary, we will do it ahead of schedule,'' Sakaguchi said in a speech at the Foreign Correspondents foreign correspondent
n.
A correspondent who sends news reports or commentary from a foreign country for broadcast or publication.

Noun 1.
  Club of Japan in Tokyo.

The labor ministry will seek budgetary allocations for the project in an extra budget to be submitted to the next extraordinary Diet session to be convened Thursday, Sakaguchi said.

Sakaguchi said there is no problem for people who want to change their jobs and know what to do next. ''But the problem is people who want to change their jobs but they don't know Don't know (DK, DKed)

"Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party.
 what to do next,'' he said.

The number of young people called ''freeters'' who do not take permanent jobs as well as people who are at loss after being dismissed by restructuring restructuring - The transformation from one representation form to another at the same relative abstraction level, while preserving the subject system's external behaviour (functionality and semantics).  have been on the increase recently.

Career counselors, newly envisioned posts in the public sector, will give advice for people to smoothly find jobs appropriate for them, according to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

3.
 the ministry's plan.

The ministry will consider introducing a certification system for the post of career counselor, he said. There are reportedly 170,000 to 200,000 career counselors in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. , he added.
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