EMPLOYERS IN JAPAN LEAST CONFIDENT ABOUT HIRING SKILLED TALENT COMPARED TO REST OF ASIA
Discover recruitment and salary trends, sector insights and more in our 2022 Hays Asia Salary Guide Launch Webinar

Over half of employers in Japan are not confident about hiring the skilled talent their organisations need in 2022, finds the 2022 Hays Asia Salary Guide. 

Now in its 15th edition, the Guide compiles and presents salary and sector overviews based on real data and a survey of skilled professionals across China, Hong Kong SAR, Japan, Malaysia, and Singapore. Over 9,500 responses were collected between October to November 2021.  

48% of employers said they were not very confident about hiring skilled talent while 7% said they were not at all confident. This was the weakest show of confidence compared to the rest of Asia. 

Grant Torrens, Managing Director of Hays Japan points out, “Given that Japanese employers demonstrated the strongest hiring appetites in the region, with 59% of employers saying they planned to increase permanent staff levels in 2022, this might make filling key roles more challenging in the coming months.”

Asked why they thought there were skill shortages in their organisations, most employers cited the lack of learning and development opportunities to upskill current employees as the top reason. Following closely behind were ‘higher compensation offered elsewhere’ and ‘brand identity, culture, or employer value proposition needs to be improved’. 

On the other hand, when it came to what was done to improve job prospects, Japan registered the least professionals who said they spent time developing their skills. 44% of professionals in Japan said they worked on their soft skills, while 23% said they spent time developing their hard skills. 

Given the shifting role requirements which are increasingly calling for new skill sets, Torrens emphasises the importance of upskilling. 

“Developing skill sets is paramount to success in our new world of work and it is the joint responsibility of employers and employees. Employers should offer more role-related training and development opportunities, and at the same time, employees should take the initiative to upskill themselves outside of work hours too.” 

For more 2022 trends and insights, download the 2022 Hays Asia Salary Guide.
Japanese： https://www.hays.co.jp/salary-guide
English： https://www.hays.co.jp/en/salary-guide

 

Discover recruitment and salary trends, sector insights and more in our 2022 Hays Asia Salary Guide Launch Webinar.

 

■English: TUE March 29th 2022, PM 2:00 - 2:45 JST 
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About Hays Japan
Hays Specialist Recruitment Japan KK ("Hays Japan"), established in Tokyo in 2001, is one of the largest foreign recruitment companies in Japan with three offices across the country (Head Office, Osaka and Yokohama).
 
At Hays Japan, our experts provide professional services across the private sector, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles, temporary assignments, recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) and IT solutions in the following 15 specialisms: Accountancy & Finance, Banking & Financial Services, Finance Technology, Digital Technology, Marketing & Digital, Human Resources, Information Technology, Insurance, Legal, Life Sciences, Office Professionals, Property, Sales & Marketing, Supply Chain and Manufacturing. This ensures a highly focused, fully tailored Specialist Recruitment Service, enabling us to power the world of work by serving thousands of companies and candidates in Japan.
 
About Hays
Hays plc (the "Group") is a leading global professional recruiting group. The Group is the expert at recruiting qualified, professional and skilled people worldwide, being the market leader in the UK and Australia and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe, Latin America and Asia. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. As at 31 December 2021 the Group employed c.12,100 staff operating from 254 offices across 20 specialisms.