就職難

しゅうしょくなん

Meanings

1. Noun difficulty of finding employment (due to a job shortage)

Kanji

• 就 take up. Read as シュウ.
• 職 job. Read as ショク.
• 難 difficult. Read as ナン.

Example sentences

• 近頃は就職難だ。
  Nowadays jobs are hard to come by.
• 深刻な就職難のしわ寄せが、そういった不法就労の外国人労働者にまで及んでいる。
  The serious job shortage is also affecting those illegal foreign workers.

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