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Recruitment Trends in Japan
Peter Firkola
This paper examines recent recruitment practices in large panies. It was found that many panies have adapted recruitment practices in varying degrees to deal with the changing economic environment. These changes include increasing the number of hires, diversifying hiring conditions, extending the recruitment schedule, and dealing with labor turnover issues. The implications of these changes and the impact panies and university students are then discussed.
JEL Classification: J21, J22, J23
Keywords: Recruitment, Personnel Management, Japanese-Style Management
1. Introduction
Over the past decade, panies had to adapt their management practices to deal with the changing economic environment. Recently, in panies, a large number of older workers were starting to retire just as sales and profits were improving. Also, an increasing number of young employees have been quitting their jobs within a few years of being hired. The issue of pany mismatch has e a serious concern for panies. These factors have led panies to reassess their various management practices such as recruitment.
This paper focused on recent recruitment practices in large panies. Although it is only one part of the personnel management system, recruitment provides insight into understanding the overall management system, and in particular, issues panies are facing and the amount of change taking place. Compared with other personnel practices in panies, information relating to recruitment tends to be more openly available panies and in the media. Information was obtained pany data, newspaper articles, company surveys, and government related data such as white papers.
This paper examined recent recruitment practices taking place in large panies. These panies tend to be the trend setters in terms of personnel practices in Japan. Small and medium-panies in Japan tend to emulate these pany management pra