Attention young Japanese job seekers: Sony Corp. wants to get to know you.
The Japanese electronics giant is shaking things up in the way it will hire the incoming class of fresh entry-level suits, stepping out from the rigid recruitment system used by the country's most elite companies for generations.
Gone are the indistinguishable black suits requisite for interviews. Gone is the formulaic interview involving a table, a chair either side and rote answers. Gone is the hiring taboo on applicants who spent the year after college studying abroad instead of jumping into the job market.
The changes, announced in late December, are the company's attempts to distinguish the individuals from the masses. (Wall Street Journal)
Attention young Japanese job seekers: Sony Corp. wants to get to know you.
The Japanese electronics giant is shaking things up in the way it will hire the incoming class of fresh entry-level suits, stepping out from the rigid recruitment system used by the country's most elite companies for generations.
Gone are the indistinguishable black suits requisite for interviews. Gone is the formulaic interview involving a table, a chair either side and rote answers. Gone is the hiring taboo on applicants who spent the year after college studying abroad instead of jumping into the job market.
The changes, announced in late December, are the company's attempts to distinguish the individuals from the masses. (Wall Street Journal)