Market insights, Japan hiring guides, and perspectives from the field.
Most hiring mistakes from foreign founders trace back to one assumption: that the playbook that worked elsewhere will transfer to Tokyo. It will not. Here is what we tell founders before their first Japan hire.
Choosing between retained and contingent search is usually framed as a tradeoff between cost and precision. In Japan it is closer to a tradeoff between getting the right leader and getting no one at all.
