HUMAN RESOURCES INFORMATION FORUM LUNCHEON
| Date: |
Thursday, April 5, 2007 |
| Time: |
12:00 to 13:30 |
| Venue: |
HSBC Building (Map: http://www.hsbc.co.jp/jp/about/map.htm)
10F, Multi-Purpose Room, 3-11-1 Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku |
| Cost: |
Y4,000 (Payable at the door) |
Profile of the Global Professional and the
Difficulty of Finding Such People in the Japanese Market
Guest Speaker:
Ms. Sakie T. Fukushima, Regional Managing Director-Japan
Korn/Ferry International
(This presentation was conducted in English)
The hiring of key senior personnel is crucial to a firm's success. With the increasingly complex and international nature of the markets, finding the ideal “global professionals” to help run a Japan-based business can be a challenge. Ms. Fukushima spoke on the current conditions in the recruiting market for senior professionals here in Japan, identifying the characteristics that make up a successful global professional, touching on the difficulty in finding them in Japan, and proposed steps that can be taken by HR divisions to mitigate these problems.
Ms. Fukushima is one of Japan's best known executive recruiters. Her practice focuses primarily on placing executives in senior management positions in American and European multinational corporations operating in Japan. Her writings have appeared in various Japanese and English-language publications, and she frequently speaks at seminars, conferences and on television discussion programs. Ms. Fukushima was educated at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (Ed.M., 1978) and at the Graduate School of Business Administration at Stanford University (MBA, 1987). She was the first woman to join the boards of Sony and Kao, and currently sits on the boards of Benesse, Sony, and Korn/Ferry International.