UNIQLO adopts new approach to recruitment in Japan
TOKYO —
UNIQLO has adopted a new method of recruiting people in Japan that replaces its previous, more conventional style of recruitment of university graduates. The change comes just as UNIQLO prepares to recruit from both current university students and recent university graduates for positions starting from 2013.
The company said it also welcomes applications from people of all nationalities, whether they are recent graduates or mid-career professionals.
The new UNIQLO hiring initiative is an important departure from the conventional Japanese recruitment process; it gives individual job-seekers more time to seriously think about their career paths, ensuring a more open application process that will be driven more by the needs of the individuals, rather than solely serving the aims of the company.
UNIQLO said it wants to break free from the conventional approach to clothing in order to truly talented people throughout the world. The company said it is seeking new recruits who are willing to take on the challenge of changing the world for the better.
More specifically, the company plans to hire 500 people in Japan, including university graduates, mid-career professionals, and even “dainishinsotsu,” the Japanese term used to describe ‘second-generation graduates’ who have been out of school for up to three years and already have some work experience.
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badmigraine
Improving on the conventional recruitment paradigm is nice of course. But why the ridiculous proposition that people willing to take on the challenge of changing the world for the better would ever consider employment at a mass-market, for-profit clothing company to achieve this goal? The message to young recruits is "when applying to Uniqlo, you have to lie about how much you care to change the world for the better...AT UNIQLO..." The message to young recruits is, you need to lie and fake everything in the working world. Like the basic startpoint in the corporate world is, you must debase and perjured yourself to stay employed. But then again, such self-effacing, masochistic drones might be useful rank-and-file employees..
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Ranger_Miffy2
Seems like a step in the right direction to me.
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badmigraine
Maybe because their options are limited these days when jobs are hard to come by? I don't see how you get the message that you are getting from this. We all exaggerate on resumes and in interviews, don't we? Or is it only me?! The point is Uniqlo is thinking outside the Japanese box by not only hiring newbies fresh out of university. Can *you *offer these people better jobs?
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ushosh123
How is this ground breaking? Do companies have posters up that say if you're not a fresh grad, don't bother sending your resume? Seems standard practice to me, you open the avenues and if the candidate is right for the company, you hire them. You don't limit yourself to one single avenue of recruitment, or better yet, what they are doing now, limit yourself to multiple avenues of hires.
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MaboDofuIsSpicy
Yes ushosh123. They are limited.
Personally, I would not to work for a clothing store that has ugly clothes like UNQULO
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wtfjapan
wow need a uni degree now to be a checkout clerk at uniqlo. must be paying really good money 850/hr, makes all those years of study worth while hey!!!???
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