Japan Post Corp. will recruit private-sector experts in financial and international parcel delivery services before the privatization of postal services begins in 2007, company officials said.
Finding experts who can help the postal corporation compete with private-sector companies is a pressing task for the company, which is largely staffed at present by officials from the Japan Post public corporation, they said.
Japan Post Corp., which was officially transformed Jan. 23 into a joint-stock corporation, will become a holding company in October 2007 with four postal services companies operating under its wing.
Three of the four companies will provide postal delivery, savings and insurance services, respectively, and the fourth will manage the national network of post offices.
Most of Japan Post Corp.'s 45 employees previously worked for the public entity.
With the birth of the new corporation, they became private-sector employees. Japan Post Corp. eventually plans to increase the number of employees to 100.
The corporation will solicit applications from private-sector financial and parcel-delivery experts on the company Web site, officials said.
Given the potential difficulty of recruiting people from the financial industry, Japan Post Corp. may ask the megabanks Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., Mizuho Financial Group Inc. and Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group Inc. to provide it with staff on a temporary basis, the officials said.