The Leadership Japan Series By Dale Carnegie Training Japan

Hey Boss, Your Nightmare Begins Now!   Here is a collection of indicators that should send a shiver down the spine of all employers in Japan.  The average job securement rate of graduating University students in April 2015 was 97%.  Also keep in mind that this is already a relatively small pool of higher education talent, from which we want to recruit.  In 2013, figures showed that only 50% of High School Graduates went to University compared to an OECD average of 62%. There is no major change in the offing though, because currently 99% of High school graduates found a job upon graduation.    Official numbers also tell us that over the last 20 years, the number of 15 to 24 year olds has halved.  From another angle, the number of Japanese turning 20 was 2.76 million in 1976 and in 2015 it is 1.26 million.  So youth recruitment demand is likely to outstrip supply, forever!   They are just not making enough future workers here.  The required birthrate for stopping population decline is 2.1 but currently Japan is