Sales and marketing professionals should see a much welcomed increase in hiring this quarter, predicts recruiting experts Hays in Japan.
The latest Hays Quarterly Report reveals demand for digital marketing experts, sales professionals in retail and business-to-business professionals (B2B) in smaller companies is set to rise over the April to June period.
“We saw a slowdown in hiring last quarter so the predicted increase in recruitment activity is hopefully a sign of a positive trend for sales & marketing professionals,” says Marc Burrage, Managing Director of Hays in Japan.
“The recruitment of digital marketing candidates has remained strong and will continue over the quarter,” says Marc. “Companies across most sectors in Japan are making a significant investment in developing their digital infrastructure generating increasing recruitment activity for talent with digital marketing skills.”
“Those highly skilled in using tools such as Google Analytics and Adobe Analytics to perform data analysis and data mining are always in high demand and this will continue over the quarter and beyond,” he says.
Hays also predict strong demand for candidates with B2B sales experience as well as independent sales managers with entrepreneurial and bilingual skills. Most of the demand for independent sales manager roles is from companies with lower profiles looking to grow.
In retail, the opening of the urban development and shopping complex project Ginza Six in Tokyo’s Ginza District has major fashion retailers on the hunt for quality in-store sales staff this quarter.
“Employers across all sectors continue to prefer to hire Japanese candidates with local professional experience for sales & marketing roles rather than returning Japanese expats or overseas candidates,” says Marc.
On the candidate side, Hays is seeing an increase in sales & marketing candidates undertaking an MBA to advance their careers.
Greater work-life balance continues to be a hook employers can use to attract the best talent. Candidates with English language skills are also looking for opportunities to use their language skills at work in the hope of securing a role with an overseas office in the future.
Please visit hays.co.jp to read the full Hays Quarterly Report.
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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 Asia Pacific and one of the market leaders in Continental Europe and Latin America. The Group operates across the private and public sectors, dealing in permanent positions, contract roles and temporary assignments. As at 30 June 2016 the Group employed 9,214 staff operating from 252 offices in 33 countries across 20 specialisms. For the year ended 30 June 2016:
– the Group reported net fees of £810.3 million and operating profit (pre-exceptional items) of £181 million;
– the Group placed around 67,000 candidates into permanent jobs and around 220,000 people into temporary assignments;
– 22% of Group net fees were generated in Asia Pacific, 45% in Continental Europe & RoW (CERoW) and 33% in the United Kingdom & Ireland;
– the temporary placement business represented 58% of net fees and the permanent placement business represented 42% of net fees;
– Hays operates in the following countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Chile, China, the Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Hungary, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Luxembourg, Malaysia, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UAE, the UK and the USA.