Terrie's Job Tips -- Securing Your Position in Sales - Part One: Macro Factors

Submitted by Japan Inc on December 24, 2008

Today's column is for the sales people amongst us. The average smaller Japanese services company has somewhere between 30% and 50% of its employees working in sales, either as sales people and account managers or as support staff - so we're talking about a good chunk of the workforce.

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TT-499 -- Year-end Round Up of M&As, ebiz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on December 22, 2008

An end of year round-up of M&As in 2008

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JIN-494 -- Tankan survey says that manufacturers' confidence... tanks

Submitted by Japan Inc on December 17, 2008

Tough times knock sentiment, but it could be worse, right?

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Terrie's Job Tips -- How Important is Oseibo?

Submitted by Japan Inc on December 17, 2008

The tradition of giving a Year-end gift to ones clients, guarantors, landlords, professors, and other respected parties started way back in the mists of Japanese feudal history.

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TT-498 -- Car Sharing Gains Pace, ebiz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on December 15, 2008

Against a bleak backdrop of a failing auto industry, it appears that a silver lining can be found in a new system - car sharing.

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JIN-493 -- Lonely times ahead for the Otaku Prince

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Submitted by Michael Condon on December 10, 2008

Prime Minister Aso just keeps losing friends.

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Terrie's Job Tips -- Who is Really Unemployed?

Submitted by Japan Inc on December 10, 2008

Back in November, the government released statistics stating that Japan's unemployment fell a full 9% from 4% to just 3.7%. When I first saw this, I had just finished watching the latest TV news installment about how many more part-timers had just been fired by Japan's leading electronics and automobile makers. Talk about a contrast!

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TT-497 -- Metropolis Buys Kansai Scene Magazine, ebiz news from Japan

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Submitted by Terrie Lloyd on December 8, 2008

Who says print is dead? The future of publishing will lie in free papers and more engagement.

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JIN-492 -- An M&A Christmas

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Submitted by Michael Condon on December 3, 2008

With the yen strong and shareholder confidence lacking, Japanese companies are looking to buy up big in 2009.

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Terrie's Job Tips -- Is Taking Redundancy a Good Idea?

Submitted by Japan Inc on December 3, 2008

The Nikkei reported in November that Nikko Cordial Securities was planning to substantially reduce its 7,000-person work force by offering employees “early retirement” packages, otherwise known as redundancy packages in the West. Apparently employees aged 40 are the main target and given that the company has a strong seniority culture, it is understandable that it would make the offer to the older, more expensive employees first.

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