Disrupting Japan issue # 17 | From Salarymen to Freelancers – Japan’s New Economy
" Your CV looks impressive as it seems you've acquired a wide range of valuable working experiences in the past however one generally thinks that this is not generally well seen in Japan. Sorry" .
““ 日本企業は、海外の企業と比べて長期的に従事することに大きな価値を見出す傾向があり、
書類選考の際も、ご経歴より先にまず求職者様の履歴書・職務経歴書の社数を確認し、合否を決められることが多々あります。
こういった日本企業の採用基準や、考えなどを事前にラベリ様にご説明できておらず、
書類選考結果について誤解を招くようなことがあったこと、深くお詫び申し上げます。
誠に申し訳ございませんでした。””
That is precisely the sort of leitmotiv your typical candidate will most likely hear whenever he or she will start looking for {what seems to be pretty legitimate elsewhere} "another job". Well, luckily for those candidates i.e. for US, things have gradually started to change and we can only hope this trend will keep going.
In this new Disrupting Japan episode, Tim Romero interviews Koishiro Yoshida, founder of CrowdWorks, who took CrowdWorks from idea to IPO in less than three years, and today both CrowdWorks and crowd-sourcing in general are seen as essential to Japan’s future economy.
“Of course, since so much of modern business culture in Japan is based on the idea of belonging to a specific company, the move to large-scale freelancing will lead to large social changes as well. Both good and bad.”