Japanese Automakers Finding It Tough To Hire Talent On Prestige Alone

Headhunter Casey Abel spent four months trying to hire a data-center architect for a Japanese automaker, including five meetings with the client -- one with the top executive. In the end, the IT specialist joined an e-commerce company abroad for significantly more money.

“There’s just a massive mismatch in salaries,” said Abel, managing director at recruiter HCCR K.K., who has spent as long as a year trying to land some IT candidates. “You’ve got some engineers making 20 million yen ($170,000) a year. Then you try to fit them in the traditional manufacturer-based salary structure where it should be 7 to 9 million yen.”

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Dexter1 - 12/30/2016 7:19:13 PM

-3 Boost

I'm confused by the headline. What Japanese automaker has any prestige to offer?

Holydude - 1/7/2017 2:21:01 AM

+1 Boost

If you want to pay peanuts, all you'll get are a bunch of monkeys! All talents know what they're worth.