Quote Originally Posted by Betelgeuzah View Post
Something temporary. The NPC's will be around for like two weeks. Hey cool, you got two weeks to join the company of your choice and then you're outta luck until next year! Of course!

This doesn't. Mean. A damn. Thing.
Actually, it could be something like

Recruitment event: You get to do a special event-only quest to join the company; in fact, this could even be the grand company "speech" mentioned by Yoshida.

After the event:

You just go to the company building and register up normally, no event quest for you.