The number of students applying to construction firms is currently decreasing, raising concern for why people do not gather easily in the construction industry. In this research, it set up a hypothesis that “university education” and “recruitment activity of construction firms” influences the problem, and it verified by interview to construction firms and giving questionnaire surveys to students. As a result, the influence of “university education” was not observed, but the influence of “recruitment activity of construction firms” was observed. [This abstract is not included in the PDF]