The role of recruit agencies for Working Japanese Women in Singapore Yoshimichi YUI Hiroshima Univ'

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The role of recruit agencies for Working
Japanese Women in SingaporeYoshimichi YUI
(Hiroshima Univ.)
The 4th International Conference On Population
geographies 12th. July 2007 The Chinese
University of Hong Kong
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What is Human Resource business in Japan ?

• temporary staff employment agencies
• dispatching regulated by the Law for Worker
  Dispatching Undertakings
• recruit agencies
• regulated by the Employment Security Law.
• as fee charging employment placement bodies
  matching between those seeking workers and those
  seeking jobs

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Service Menu of Recruit Agencies in Singapore

• Sales Collecting job information from client
  companies
• Consultation Matching between job offers and
  job seekers Quite high ratio in women
• Staff education/training
• Others Translation service etc.
• (In Singapore, many job offers for translation )

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Recent Tendency of Human Resource Business in
Japan

• Liberalization by the deregulation in 1999
• influenced by economic globalization
• Increasing, recruiting white-collar workers,
  engaging in clerical and engineering works.
• Diversified job market
• increasing mid-career recruitment and job
  change, headhunting, and reemployment support for
  the middle-aged or elderly people.

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Recruit agencies business contents
http//www.singaweb.net/
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Network of recruit agencies
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Registration condition
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Information of recruitment agencies in Singapore
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Information on job offer in web site
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Characteristics of job offers from Japanese and
foreign companies from interview with recruit
agencies in Singapore

• 1. Japanese companies seek more traditional
  Japanese female employees than real Japanese.
• (a great sensitivity to tea serving, and
  arrangements ).
• 2. Japanese companies request for personnel
  thriving on adversity, in negotiation and trouble
  with local employees and customers.
• (Familiar with Singaporeans ordinary behavior
  characteristics)
• 3. Understanding in culture of the company
  concerned, and in corporate culture are important
• 4. Foreign-affiliated companies also need
  language proficiency for negotiation with
  Japanese-owned companies.
• Demand for call centers and customer service

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Characteristics and image of registrants
according to interview with recruit agencies
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Concluding and remarks the role of recruitment
agencies in Singapore

• high demand of Japanese women in Japanese
  companies well attitude for Japanese
  companies
• arrangement ability of Japanese women
• high job turnover in Singapore
• both Singaporean and Japanese
• (Japanese women tend to go back Japan till
  35 yrs old)
• Personnel outsourcing
• major Japanese-owned firms
• Japanese companies depend screening
  on recruit agencies
• Small and medium-sized enterprises
• with few applicants even for advertised
  job in the newspaper, and without HR specialist
  screening personnel, also have to depend on
  recruit agencies