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How three women shattered glass ceilings to become the first female chief economists at global banks
There's a particular telephone conversation that HSBC Global Chief Economist Janet Henry has down pat. Here's how it goes: "You get a call from a headhunter," she says. Then Henry inevitably finds herself saying, "No, I'm not interested." But it doesn't end there. "They always ...
Japan faces challenges as it moves to accept more foreign workers
Japan's move toward opening its doors to more foreign workers is widely seen as a must to better cope with an expected shrinkage in the working population. Potentially broadening the scope of non-Japanese workers accepted into a country that for years has kept a firm ...
U.K. Cabinet ministers were infuriated this week by an apparent government breach of a protocol that prevents ill or heavily pregnant politicians from being forced to attend Parliament to vote, to the disadvantage of a representative currently on maternity leave. Pro-EU Liberal Democrat Deputy Leader ...
Shareholder meetings: What's your version?
Regardless of our employment status, it is imperative for us to constantly think how we can increase our value.
Japan mega-bank MUFG considers job cuts in overseas brokerage business
Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc. is considering job cuts at its securities operations overseas to keep them profitable. The brokerage arm of Japan's biggest bank may reduce its head count in the U.K. and the U.S., reflecting market conditions, Mitsubishi UFJ Securities Holdings Co. CEO ...
Applications for career-track jobs in prefectural governments drop for seventh consecutive year
The number of people seeking career-track jobs at prefectural governments has fallen 7.2 percent from the previous year to 59,801, down for the seventh consecutive year, a survey says. Thirty-seven of Japan's 47 prefectures are facing year-on-year drops in career-track applicants, the results of the ...
New graduates hope for work-life balance rather than boardroom role
Working long hours to move up the job ladder is a lower priority for newly employed graduates in the nation, according to a recent survey published by the Japan Productivity Center (JPC). The 50th edition of the annual research, released Thursday, showed that over 40 ...
Japan's real wages were flat in April from a year earlier, while nominal wages grew 0.8 percent for the ninth consecutive monthly increase amid a recent rise in base salaries, the labor ministry said Wednesday. The average of total cash earnings, including base and overtime ...
Nearly 98,000 disabled people hired via Hello Work offices in 2017, up 4.9%
The number of disabled people who found jobs through the Hello Work chain of public job placement offices stood at 97,814 in fiscal 2017, up 4.9 percent from the previous year, government data show. The figure rose for the ninth year straight and set a ...
Data shows women still struggling to advance in Japan's corporate world
Only a tiny fraction of female workers have been able to snag top roles at public, private and nonprofit organizations in Japan, according to data from Teikoku Databank Ltd. released earlier this week. The percentage of company presidents who are women was just 7.8 percent ...
Record 98% of Japan's university graduates land jobs amid recovering economy
Aided by firms’ increasing appetite for recruitment, the rate of university students seeking jobs also increased to 75.3 percent, the highest on record.
University students in Japan getting luckier with early job offers, survey finds
Nearly 20 percent of the nation's job-hunting university students had secured informal offers for next spring as of April 1, a private survey shows. The 19.9 percent figure is 5.4 points higher than a year ago, according to the survey by job data provider Recruit ...
