Recently, I have been getting requests from companies outside Tokyo looking for skilled staff. Although these are name-brand firms and they normally would get oodles of responses from applicants in Tokyo, for some strange reason positions outside Tokyo seem to be of little interest - in fact, the further away from Tokyo the job is...

One of the most important people in my team is my Personal Assistant (PA). Notice that I didn't call her a secretary. In a smaller company like DaiJob.com, staff often bear multiple responsibilities and almost certainly have to have a wider range of skills than in larger firms. This point of being able to do a lot of different tasks within the job description is...

Although no one seems to have the real numbers, from what I can gather there are about 50,000 tertiary students studying in North America every year. Of this number, about 4,000 are doing an MBA or other Masters course. Outside the USA, there are probably another 30,000 people studying in similar ratios in Europe, Asia, and Oceania. That's quite...

If you're a bilingual software engineer, a bilingual senior manager, or a high-powered sales person, don't bother reading this. However, if you're one of the "rest of us", then listen up. Like many people in the recruiting business, I've been getting calls on a daily basis from highly qualified people who didn't plan to be on the job market, but who now are. Many of these people have very specialized experience that was essential to their previous company, but...