The number of people Japanese companies were planning to hire at the start of fiscal 2006 under their mid-career recruitment programs shot up 30.1 percent over a year earlier to 695,900, Recruit Co. said Wednesday.
The job placement ad magazine publisher said the findings, based on a survey it conducted in February and March, indicate that Japanese companies are facing worker shortages as a result of an economic rebound.
A Recruit analyst said the mid-career programs at big companies are "also designed to remedy" the shortages of young workers in their workforces.
The shortages have arisen from the companies' decisions in recent years to limit the number of fresh graduates from universities and colleges they employ prior to the start of their new business years.
The number of people which the companies whose workers on regular payrolls are 299 or less were planning to hire under such recruitment plans rose 26.5 percent to 546,600, Recruit said.
The number of mid-career recruits to be hired at firms with a regular payroll between 300 and 999 rose 37.5 percent to 59,800, while the number at firms with a regular payroll of over 1,000 jumped 51.6 percent to 89,600.
Recruit said the survey represented the firm's first-ever probe into Japanese companies' mid-career recruitment programs.
Recruit polled some 7,469 companies with a workforce of five persons or more. Of the polled, 4,068 responded.
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