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Year: 2020

Appearance on Lydia Beukelman’s ‘Business Success Japan’ podcast

11/23/202212/18/2020 by Paul

I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Lydia Beukelman, a US-based corporate Japanese instructor, for her ‘Business Success Japan’ podcast. We spoke about culture, burnout and life in Japan. … Read more

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Profile #5: James Ryland – Head of HR at Wellington Management

11/25/202210/22/2020 by Paul

Paul: James Ryland and I met at 8:25 am on Monday, November 15th, 1999. I remember the date and time well as it was my first day of work in … Read more

Categories Profiles, Recruitment Tags Human Resources, Living in Japan Leave a comment

Profile #4: Ji Youn Yoo – In-house recruiter at Google

11/25/202210/13/2020 by Paul

Paul: Ji Youn Yoo is an in-house recruiter at Google’s Tokyo office in Shibuya Stream. We worked together a few years ago in the IT team of a recruiting agency … Read more

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Profile #3: Asumi Saito – co-founder of Waffle.org

11/25/202209/10/2020 by Paul

Paul: Asumi Saito is a young data scientist turned non-profit organisation founder from Tokyo. We met over Skype in 2017 when Asumi had just finished her master’s degree at the … Read more

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Profile #2: Gerard Noakes – In-house recruiter at Indeed

11/25/202209/05/2020 by Paul

Paul: Gerard Noakes is an in-house recruiter at Indeed’s Tokyo office. We met in the summer of 2016 when Gerard joined the recruiting agency I was working at. His first … Read more

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How to Write an IT Resume for Japan – A Guide

11/11/202208/30/2020 by Paul

I’m often asked how to write an IT resume for the Japan market. Over the past 20 years, I’ve read thousands of resumes written by IT people from all over … Read more

Categories Guides, Recruitment Tags CV, Living in Japan, Resume 1 Comment

Profile #1: Andy Hall – Tilting at GameDev Windmills

11/25/202208/26/2020 by Paul

Paul: Andy Hall is an indie game developer, originally from the US. Now living in Kawasaki, Japan, Andy and I met in early 2000, when Andy joined a Tokyo-based IT … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Coding, Indie Games, Living in Japan 1 Comment

50 is the new 40 (unless you’re job hunting)

11/23/202208/21/2020 by Paul

I originally wrote this piece for LinkedIn and it received far more exposure than anything else I’ve ever written for the platform (almost 40,000 feed views so far). The topic … Read more

Categories Recruitment Tags Ageism, Living in Japan, Rants 1 Comment

Employer Branding. When donuts are just not enough.

08/04/202208/21/2020 by Paul

All the Employer Branding activities in the world will not help you hire the best talent if your current employees think you’re a crap place to work. Posting photos of … Read more

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Do call me, I won’t call you…

08/04/202208/20/2020 by Paul

I saw an advice post that a “busy” recruiter wrote: If I don’t get back to you in 2 WEEKS send ME a follow-up email. This recruiter was very busy … Read more

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