The Diet on July 8 revised immigration laws to unify administrative work related to foreigners under the central government. The revision of the Basic Resident Registration Law will affect all foreigners who remain in Japan more than 3 months. The bills will abolish alien registration cards issued by local municipalities and instead (more…)

By Jenny Wells, PhD, Clinical Director, TELL Community Counseling Service

As HR managers and professionals, there is a current imperative to manage these difficult times where many companies are suffering financial losses or greater struggles than before. One of the human consequences is the increase in stress on those left behind, following redundancies or restructuring. Here is some helpful and practical advice for individuals, from Jenny Wells, Clinical Director of TELL Community Counseling Service. This is timely advice for individuals suffering from stress but equally applies to managers and HR professionals keen to understand their experience and how to support them. (more…)

Given recent economic forecasts for 2009, the doom merchants are having a field day, Yes, change is definitely on the horizon but with change comes opportunities. A positive attitude and a thorough reappraisal of recruiting activities will see your organization grow from strength to strength.

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Sometimes just posting a job vacancy on an Internet job site is not enough to make sure you find the right person your company needs; whether you need to fill one or 50 positions, our dedicated recruitment experts will create a hiring solution that best suits your needs and bring in even more resumes and top-quality candidates in response to your Job Postings. (more…)

Let’s take a look at what 2009 has in store for recruiters; what will be the top trends, hot topics and how best to approach them?

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Everybody needs health insurance, especially when they live and work abroad. However, insurance systems in foreign countries are often difficult to understand without native language proficiency and difficult to explain to foreign employees whose reference points are often the completely different schemes they are used to in their home countries. (more…)

When getting ready to interview candidates, it is always a good idea to have some effective questions prepared that will allow you to make the most of the time you spend with the candidate and make an informed decision on whether or not you would like to move forward with their candidacy and even offer them a job. (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…)

When placing an advertisement of any kind in any from of media it often isn’t enough for a lot of companies to just simply put an advert where there target audience might find it, more and more companies are using extra techniques to ensure that their advertisements get noticed. (more…)