In May 2024, global job seeker trends were more active overall, especially in “sales” with a significant increase to 43.5%.

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Two months have passed since the start of the new fiscal year, and it is time for new employees, career hires, and new members who have joined the team due to departmental transfers and other reasons to gradually get used to their jobs. On the other hand, many new employees seem to experience a reality shock resulting from the gap between the ideal they had envisioned before joining the company and the reality after joining the company. In many cases, “onboarding” (the process of encouraging new members to settle into the organization and nurture them so that they can be immediately effective) is left to the field, and those in leadership positions may be struggling with this issue.
In previous columns, we have discussed examples of onboarding in other countries, and all of these companies are working on this issue on a company-wide basis. It seems that in order to improve retention rates and reduce early turnover, it will become increasingly necessary to support the entire organization.
Let's take a look at what happened to the “Trends in Global Human Resources (*1)” in May 2024.

(1)*Trends in Daijob.com registrants with a history of job applications and scout "interested" responses, focused on personnel with a business level or higher in both English and Japanese.

Main Topics

• Overall, compared to the same month last year, “Sales” increased significantly to 43.5%.

• Overall, “Electrical/Machinery,” “Consulting,” and “Creative” increased markedly to over 40% year over year.

■Overall activity increased compared to the previous month, with “Sales” in particular showing a significant increase of 43.5%.

Sales” (+43.5%) was followed by ‘Admins’ (+28.2%), ‘Service/Retail’ (+27.9%), and ‘Electrical/Machinery’ (+23.7%), all of which showed an increase of more than 20%. On the other hand, “Finance/Insurance/Real Estate,” which had been active since January, was the only occupation to slow down this time.

■ Overall, “Electrical/Machinery,” “Consulting,” and “Creative” increased significantly by 40% or more compared to the same month of the previous year.

Electrical machinery and equipment (+ 43.1%), Creative (+ 42.6%), and Consulting (+ 41.1%) showed significant increases in activity, with over 40%. In consulting, the year-on-year growth has been positive since the same month of March 2024. On the other hand, the year-on-year changes in “Education/Training/Languages” (-11.7%), “Admin” (-4.5%), and “Other” (-10.9%) continued to slow down from the same month in November 2023.

May saw an overall increase in activity despite the Golden Week holiday. One of the reasons for this was a career fair held on May 24th, specializing in IT, electrical, and mechanical engineers. Companies recruiting not only engineers, but also sales and creative professionals, exhibited at the fair, and we believe that the increase in registrations was the result of our promotional efforts. The Career Fair has achieved a “90% or more chance of meeting prospective job seekers” for seven consecutive fairs. Please consider the next Career Fair in September as one of your recruitment measures.