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就活 (shuukatsu) Japanese meaning: job hunting | Kotomora
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就しゅう
活かつ
の
ため
に
東とう
京きょう
へ
行い
っ
た
。
He went to Tokyo for job hunting.
I got sick from the stress of job hunting.
Usage patterns 就しゅう 活かつ をする to job hunt
Many students start job hunting once they become third-year university students.
就しゅう 活かつ を 始はじ める to begin job hunting
I was told it's better to start job hunting early.
就しゅう 活かつ が 終お わる for one's job hunting to be over
I finally finished job hunting after getting a job offer.
就しゅう 活かつ に 成せい 功こう する to succeed in job hunting
He succeeded in landing a job at his top-choice company.
就しゅう 活かつ で 苦く 労ろう する to struggle during job hunting
Many people struggled with job hunting during the pandemic.
Kanji 就 concerning, settle, take position 活 lively, resuscitation, being helped Related words 就職活動 is the full, formal term for the job-hunting process, while 就活 is its everyday abbreviated form used in casual speech and writing.
就活 is the casual, shortened form used mainly by students for the process of job hunting, while 就職 refers to the act or result of actually getting a job.
Written forms 就しゅう 活かつ Usage 99%
Standard abbreviation of 就職活動; widely used in modern Japanese.
しゅうかつ Usage 1%
Etymology Abbreviation of 就職活動 (しゅうしょくかつどう, 'job-hunting activities'), formed by taking the first kanji of each word.
