Trends in Corporate Hiring of Recent Graduates: Focus on Developments since the Global Financial Crisis  

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Nagano, Hitoshi

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Japan Labor Review vol. 11 no. 02 (2014), page 23-36.
Topik: Japanese Companies; Global Financial Crisis; Hiring Practices; Human Resources
Fulltext: JLR42_nagano_open.pdf (1.25MB)

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What sort of trends can be seen in Japanese companies’ hiring practices since the global financial crisis of 2008? The author sought to clarify this issue through quantitative analysis, employing a questionnaire survey, and qualitative analysis based on interviews conducted at 17 companies. The findings clearly showed stagnation in hiring of mid-career human resources and increased preference for hiring of new graduates. As the globalization of business progresses, Japanese companies are hiring a growing number of international students and personnel with high levels of language proficiency, but they still make recruitment of new graduates the mainstay of their hiring practices. As to why companies gravitate toward hiring young people fresh out of school, the so-called “white cloth” analogy holds that these new graduates are the equivalent of white cloth that can be dyed any color, and are thus preferred by companies seeking to imprint their in-house standards and corporate culture. The results of the author’s analysis point to the validity of the “white cloth” analogy. While corporations are likely to hire more mid-career human resources as the economy improves, it appears that they will continue to rely primarily on hiring of new graduates to meet their human resource needs.

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