Although job hunting is one of the most important activities of our lives, itﾕs amazing how little "smarts" people put into making sure that they get the right job. The procedure usually is to go to a job Web site, or read the Monday edition of the Japan Times, and after seeing an ad that looks interesting, go to the company's Web site. If all the available literature looks good, then there's a frantic rush to create the world's best resume and send it in by registered mail. And then what?...

Getting a job that you really want in a foreign multinational company requires a lot of thought and planning. In a tight labor market in particular, you want to make sure that the quality of your resume gets you into the first round of interviews. And I can tell you that for some of the really attractive jobs, companies are getting up to a thousand candidates. So, how do you make yourself stand out and be noticed -yet not overstep the bounds? Since most multinationals in Japan are...

In today's troubled economy, one type of employee that has borne the brunt of all the head-cutting at most major Japanese corporations over the last 3 months is those people over 50 years old. Here at DaiJob.com, we are being inundated with resumes from highly skilled and highly experienced people who are on the wrong side of 50 and have already been fired or soon will be...

If you were asked, "Which period between 1940 and now led to the largest loss of male workers from Japan's economy?" You probably would answer World War II, since during the period 1939 through to the surrender in August of 1945, around 2,000,000 soldiers, over 3% of the population, perished in the pursuit of Emperor and empire. However, in fact the period of greatest loss (but not necessarily loss of life) of males from the Japanese workforce is...