Japan's once-dominant carmakers face big pay hikes to lure tech talent
TOKYO -- 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.”
(AutoNews.com)
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