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Profile #8: Sylvain Pierre – Entrepreneur & co-founder of Le Wagon Tokyo

12/28/202502/03/2021 by Paul

Paul: Sylvain Pierre is an entrepreneur, co-founder of the Le Wagon Tokyo coding bootcamp, and Tokyo resident since 2016. We talk about how Sylvain got into entrepreneurship, his experiences in … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Coding, Entrepreneur, Living in Japan

Profile #7: Andrew Bishop – APAC Head of Human Resources and Chief of Staff

12/28/202501/27/2021 by Paul

Paul: I met Andrew Bishop way back in 2000 when we worked together in the IT recruiting team at PANACHE, a Tokyo-based technology, staffing and services company. We’ve been friends … Read more

Categories Profiles, Recruitment Tags Human Resources, Living in Japan

Profile #6: Misha Yurchenko – Author, Blogger and Entrepreneur

12/28/202501/07/2021 by Paul

Paul: I met Misha Yurchenko for the first time a couple of years ago after coming across his excellent newsletter (you can find it and more of his writing at … Read more

Categories Profiles Tags Entrepreneur, Living in Japan

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

04/27/202412/18/2020 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

Categories Recruitment Tags Living in Japan, Podcast

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

12/28/202510/22/2020 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

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

08/05/202510/13/2020 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

Categories Profiles, Recruitment Tags Google, Living in Japan

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

12/28/202509/10/2020 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

Categories Profiles

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

12/28/202509/05/2020 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

Categories Profiles, Recruitment Tags Living in Japan

Profile #1: Andy Hall – Tilting at GameDev Windmills

08/05/202508/26/2020 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

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

08/05/202508/21/2020 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 Living in Japan, Rants

Employer Branding. When donuts are just not enough

08/05/202508/21/2020 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

Categories Recruitment Tags Rants

Do call me, I won’t call you…

08/05/202508/20/2020 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

Categories Recruitment Tags Rants
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