By Taro Fujimoto/Japan Today

Kazuhiro Ohshima, Director of Center for International Exchange, Nihon Kogakuin College (Katayanagi Institute)

In Japan, 3,218 private vocational schools offer professional education in individual areas of industry. Currently, 23.1% of high school graduates study at vocational schools and 99.6% of them find employment after graduation. (more…)

One of the undoubted benefits of advertising positions you wish to fill on Internet-based job sites is that it gets the message – that you are looking to hire – out quickly and very efficiently to a tremendous number of candidates and results in a huge pool of potential hires being generated. (more…)

Recruiting isn’t easy. The process of finding good, suitable candidates doesn’t always run smoothly; nor does it always produce the results it is meant to – a fact to which countless horror stories attest. (more…)