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Japan has some pretty strict quarantine procedures for allowing foreign workers to enter the country these days. How are companies getting new employees into the country safely and without putting tons of resources into adhering

Have you ever made a bad hire? We all have. Before we begin, I would like you to answer this one question survey. When you make a bad hire, what annoys you the most? Loss

Before the current pandemic, I only did face-to-face interviews. By doing so, I had a very good feeling for who the person was. I knew what they looked like, how they would be in front

Everyone knows that employee referrals are the best way to hire. Your employees are not going to introduce and welcome a psychopath to work at their own company. As the referred person already is acquainted

The Summer heat continues to linger on and many of us foreigners consider this to be the most unbearable season in Japan. A Japanese English school owner (female) asked me the best way to tell

“Is it OK for me to ask for a photo with the job application?” is a question that I get from many employers in Japan familiar with hiring foreigners. They wonder if it will make

Recently I was helping a small independently-owned English conversation school in Yokohama hire teachers. The part-time position was just your average part-time teaching position with limited benefits and average (perhaps slightly lower) hourly pay. The

It’s your job to hire the right people – it’s our job to make it easier. It does not matter how many filters and screening functions we add to JobsinJapan.com, the hiring manager is going