FirstPoint Japan

Event: Sick & Tired of Resume-Collecting Recruiters? Fire Your Recruiter & Take Control of Your Life!

3/19/2014

FirstPoint Japan's Publisher and the Founder of Career OverDrive! and SiliconEdge, James Santagata, will be presenting at the Foreign Correspondents' Club of Japan on April 17th, 2014.

Presentation Topic:
Sick & Tired of Resume-Collecting Recruiters? Fire Your Recruiter & Take Control of Your Job Search & Your Life!

(FYI: This is not a gratuitous beat down on recruiters, it's a hard-edged, constructive conversation to give job seekers the unadulterated truth along with immediately actionable, life changing information and know-how - all recruiters are more than welcome).

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Jun Kabigting (MBA/MS/HRMP) Joins FirstPoint Japan's Advisory Board

2/13/2014

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Jun Kabigting (MBA/MS/HRMP)

We're pleased to announce that Jun Kabigting (MBA/MS/HRMP) has joined FirstPoint Japan's Advisory Board as our resident expert on all matters related to Japanese HR.

Jun is an HRCI-certified HR Management Professional (HRMP) with more than 20 years of solid experience across the entire HR value chain of recruit, retain and release, most of them Japan-focused. He passionately believes in advancing the HR profession in Japan through continuing HR education, knowledge sharing, and use of HR best practices.

He has a solid experience as a trainer, HR consultant, and HR-focused executive search consultant. He also has experience in other HR fields like performance management, compensation & benefits design, organizational design and development, change management, as well as other HR generalist functions like employee relations, coaching, and career counseling. Jun likewise serves as legal resident Representative Director and/or External Director for other organizations as part of HRCKK's Corporate Governance services.
Jun Kabigting (MBA/MS/HRMP)

Jun holds an MBA (Major in International HR Management) from the University of Hawaii at Manoa and Japan Management Certificate from the Japan-America Institute of Management Science (JAIMS). He also holds an M.S. in Industrial Engineering (major in Production and Operations Research) from the prestigious University of the Philippines and received his Certificate in HR Studies from Cornell University’s School of Industrial Labor and Relations (ILR).

Learn More About Jun Kabigting

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(Expert Interview, audio): Challenges & Opportunities Facing Japanese HR Departments, Jun Kabigting

2/13/2014

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What are the challenges and opportunities facing Japanese HR departments, whether the firms in question be domestic (国内) or foreign-capitalized (外資系)?

Today we'll talk with Jun Kabigting, a Tokyo-based Japan HR expert.

Is Japan HR unique?
If so, what makes Japan HR unique?
What makes it different or unique compared to the US and say Western practices?
What about the ability to reduce a workforce or realign personnel, are there legal considerations?
How difficult is it to terminate an employee, even for "cause" or "performance issues"?
What are the direct and indirect costs of a mishire in Japan?
What are the biggest challenges now? -- For HR professionals and for organizations?
What challenges and also opportunities do you see on the horizon? -- For HR professionals and for organizations?

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Cecil John Howell Joins FirstPoint Japan's Advisory Board

11/15/2013

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We're pleased to announce that Cecil John Howell has joined FirstPoint Japan's Advisory Board.

Cecil has over 10 years of experience in Japan-Asia related HR (11 years Recruiting, 6 years Talent Management, 3 years in training and development and 2 years HR/GA) and heads one of the leading Fashion Boutique recruiting firms in Japan which focuses on all levels of staffing for retail fashion companies: Store & Back Office, Executive & Asia Pacific level.

He holds an Executive MBA with a focus on Human Resources from Chapman University and Bachelors from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in International Business with Minors in Music, Asian Studies and Computer Science. He also holds Japanese and Chinese language certificates form Nanzan University and the Beijing Language and Culture University respectively.

The Blue-Eyed Samurai – Kim Christian Botho Pedersen (Asia Biz)

9/27/2013

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FirstPoint Japan's Advisory Board member, Kim Pedersen, was just interviewed by Asia Biz's Howard Lim. This is a very fascinating interview as Kim is one of the few foreigners to have been educated in the Japanese public school system rather than shipping of to the English-language curriculum's found in the international schools.

Kim Christian Botho Pedersen is an enigma in all good sense of the word. He is Danish by blood, born in Denmark and moved to Japan at an early age. Instead of attending an International school – where most of the instruction is in English – Kim`s parents decided to send him to Japanese school. He is one of only a few foreigners who have attained “Native-level” Japanese in reading, writing, and speaking.

Kim runs his own consulting firm mx2 where he focuses on bringing technical and consumer products from Denmark and Europe to Japan. The company also offers a number of value added services to the Japanese market, including; market-research, Japan Country Manager, and inter-cultural communication consulting to bridge some of the gaps and misunderstandings that may arise from doing business between the East and West.

Can you find Kim? (click to enlarge)

What Is A Working Environment & Why Is It So Important? (Part 1) (Kim Pedersen / Roukan.com)

8/29/2013

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What Is Working Environment & Why Is It So Important? (Part 1)
By Kim Pedersen (Guest Blogger)

Kim Pedersen is an expert in Japan business and global working environments and the founder of Roukan.com (Roukan.jp localized for the Japanese market) as well as a member of the High-Impact Coaching Alliance's advisory board.

Why Is Working Environment (WE) So Important?
Well, the simple answer to this question is that it has a huge impact on a company’s profits. If a profitable organization is important to you then you should pay careful attention to your company's WE. This is just one of the reasons why WE is so important.

Another reason for its importance is that it influences an employee’s well-being to a very high degree. From a corporate standpoint, depending on how you understand and manage WE you can either increase the profitability and competitiveness of your company or you can risk being potentially sued and/or losing money through lack of employee engagement and reduced productivity, absenteeism and so on.

The funny thing about WE is that depending on which path you choose you will either receive all of the positive effects or all of the negative effects. There seems to be no middle ground in regards to WE. In practice, this means that you can choose to have very satisfied employees, a good working environment and higher productivity and profits or you can choose to have very unsatisfied employees, a bad working environment and the chance of litigation and resultant lower profits.

So what is your choice going to be?

We Welcome John Taylor To The FirstPoint Japan Advisory Board

8/22/2013

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We are pleased to welcome John Taylor, an online marketing and advertising expert, to the FirstPoint Japan Advisory Board.

John serves as FirstPoint Japan's online marketing and advertising adviser charged with promoting the website while building web traffic and share of mind.

John is a seasoned sales executive and consultant with experience in the US, Japan and Australia. He's an expert in online media and traffic analysis and previously worked as a senior manager at a major online market intelligence and insight software firm where he developed partnerships with some of the most heavily trafficked sites including MegaUpLoad, online gaming sites and well as dozens of other high profile and highly trafficked sites.

He currently works for a major Silicon Valley enterprise software company and is the founder of the Wider Sales Funnel, the premier platform for accelerating your business performance.

John is a native speaker of English as well as a native speaker of Spanish and currently resides in Sydney, Australia and previously resided in the US (California, Boston and Florida) and Tokyo, Japan

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We Welcome Kim Pedersen To The FirstPoint Japan Advisory Board

8/21/2013

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We are pleased to welcome Kim Pedersen a Business and Working Environment Consultant to the FirstPoint Japan Advisory Board.

Kim is a truly multicultural person with extensive experience living, working and doing business in and with Japan over the last 40 years. He is trilingual with native Danish and Japanese abilities as well as possessing fluent English. He also holds an export and marketing degree from the Danish Export Institute.

Kim has been working under both Japanese and Danish working environment (WE) at several different levels ranging from being employed as a commercial attaché at the Royal Danish Embassy, being a manager in a Japanese company as well as running his own businesses in Japan and Denmark.

Having seen and experienced both WE and having seen how beneficial a sound and healthy WE can be (as well as how damaging a bad WE can be) Kim has devoted much of his time to try to improve the Japanese WE through the launch and operations of roukan.com (and roukan.jp for the Japanese version).

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Event: Sick & Tired of Resume-Collecting Recruiters? Fire Your Recruiter & Take Control of Your Life!

Jun Kabigting (MBA/MS/HRMP) Joins FirstPoint Japan's Advisory Board

(Expert Interview, audio): Challenges & Opportunities Facing Japanese HR Departments, Jun Kabigting

Cecil John Howell Joins FirstPoint Japan's Advisory Board

The Blue-Eyed Samurai – Kim Christian Botho Pedersen (Asia Biz)

What Is A Working Environment & Why Is It So Important? (Part 1) (Kim Pedersen / Roukan.com)

We Welcome John Taylor To The FirstPoint Japan Advisory Board

We Welcome Kim Pedersen To The FirstPoint Japan Advisory Board

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