Japan RPO Coaching & Consulting [For RPO Vendors]
1. Japan RPO Market Overview
Japan is arguably the most difficult recruiting market in the world given the candidate constrained market along with the competition for candidates, and the numerous cultural barriers faced.
When providing an RPO in the Japan market, the work doesn't become any easier compared to agency-side recruiting -- it actually becomes many times more difficult and complex while each mistake has the potential to be very costly.
2. What We Do
We offer proven, hands-on Japan RPO coaching, consulting and training services to help you streamline, troubleshoot, benchmark, and vastly improve the performance of your onsite teams, client accounts, sourcing center/teams, and client relations.
3. Who Benefits from our Japan RPO Coaching, Consulting & Training?
4. Our Japan RPO Services
- Japan-based RPO Firms under performing operations, low margins or losses.
- Japan-based Recruiting Agencies expanding into the Japan RPO market or looking to do it right, while minimizing risks & losses and driving to success from the start.
- Overseas RPO Firm With Japan RPO Clients that have successful overseas operations but underperforming or failing Japan operations.
- Overseas RPO Firm Entering the Japan RPO Market and looking to minimize risk and losses while driving success from the very start.
4. Our Japan RPO Services
- On-Demand: Focused training and coaching for specific pain points and sticking points to add immediate value.
- Benchmarking & Gap Analysis: Teams, operations and clients, performing Gap Analyses and Solutions Identifications,
- Review & Consult: RPO SOW and contract terms, KPI's, development & deliverables.
- QBR (Quarterly Business View): Preparations, analysis, review, role plays & practice runs (from all angles, local stakeholder, through regional and global).
5. Our Japan RPO Experience
We have provided hands on consulting, coaching and management services to some of the most demanding RPO clients in Japan.
Our systems and approach are informed by 12 years of Japan-based Recruiting and HR consulting experience with 5 of those years focused specifically on Japan RPO and High-End Japan HR engagements at the most demanding clients including Investment Banks, Professional Services and Consulting firms.
In some cases, we have been asked to come in and turn around a failing RPO account (including at a Global award winning RPO firm). In other cases, we have been asked to come in after a previous RPO provider failed and was terminated and then we have immediately turned around the entire account, transforming it into a profitable, well- run and well-regarded account.
We have worked RPO's across all major industries and market segments. In total we have directly managed or advised over 17 Japan RPOs ranging from from local one-country RPOs to Regional and Global RPO's, and dozens of HR consulting engagements.
Our experience and record of success encompasses all manner of RPO scopes and deliverables ranging from MSP's through multi-person onsite RPO's using both client-provided technology and third-party provider technology.
We have provided hands on consulting, coaching and management services to some of the most demanding RPO clients in Japan.
Our systems and approach are informed by 12 years of Japan-based Recruiting and HR consulting experience with 5 of those years focused specifically on Japan RPO and High-End Japan HR engagements at the most demanding clients including Investment Banks, Professional Services and Consulting firms.
In some cases, we have been asked to come in and turn around a failing RPO account (including at a Global award winning RPO firm). In other cases, we have been asked to come in after a previous RPO provider failed and was terminated and then we have immediately turned around the entire account, transforming it into a profitable, well- run and well-regarded account.
We have worked RPO's across all major industries and market segments. In total we have directly managed or advised over 17 Japan RPOs ranging from from local one-country RPOs to Regional and Global RPO's, and dozens of HR consulting engagements.
Our experience and record of success encompasses all manner of RPO scopes and deliverables ranging from MSP's through multi-person onsite RPO's using both client-provided technology and third-party provider technology.
6. Our Talent Technology Experience & Implementations
From our initial work in Silicon Valley on the industry side of software and enterprise application development, vendors and clients have been surprised that our expertise on i18N / L10N (especially with Japan/Japan and CJVK, DBCS issues), system integrations and product launches through the entire software product lifecycle is not only on par with their own experience but often surpasses it.
Our Talent Technology Implementation Management experience includes:
Our Talent Technology Implementation Management experience includes:
- SAP Field Glass: Vendor management system at top Investment Bank with replacement and/or integration of critical but brittle legacy applications.
- SAP Success Factors: Global data networking and communications company.
- Lumesse Talent Link: Their first ever Japan-based and Japanese language implementation -- included driving the L10N efforts and managing all risks.
7. Our Japan RPO Results
We have established our reputation on results, and results are what we are most proud of. We consistently receive the highest feedback & reviews from clients, consultants, candidates + stakeholders across Industries.
- Expanded RPO from narrow MSP in Mid-office space, moving into broader MSP across Infra group and special global cost reduction projects yielding additional revenue.
- Turned around previously failed account from cancelled vendor, taking the failed account, making it profitable, completing first year and renewing into the second year.
- Rebuilt broken RPO account, taking the failing account and generating hockey stick growth in 3 months.
- Solved a professional consulting firm's New Grad Hiring for tech positions and forced corporate clarification on hiring requirements for tech roles..
- Prevented a global vendor management system implementation from sinking the local RPO and creating legal exposure and generating losses.
- Took a broken system implementation, separating it from the RPO and dragging it over the finish line while driving the actual RPO operations to success.
- And many others...
