India – Majority of services and manufacturing sector employers keen to recruit in the new year

Most, or 68%, of employers in India are keen to increase their resource pool in the services and manufacturing sector in the period of January-March 2023, according to a report from staffing firm TeamLease Services.

The report also showed that at the same time, approximately 77%, of services sector employers...

Hong Kong – Seasonally adjusted unemployment rate improves in quarter ending November

The seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Hong Kong stood at 3.7% in the period from September - November 2022, down from 4.1% during the same period a year ago, according to the latest labour force statistics published by the Census and Statistics Department.

At the same time, the seasonally adjusted...

Australia – Migrants held over a quarter of all jobs in 2019-2020, study finds

Migrant workers in Australia held 26.3% of all jobs in Australia in 2019-20 (5.3 million jobs, worked by 3.6 million migrants). This was slightly below their 29.8% share of Australia’s population, according to data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics.

Of the total number of jobs held by migrants,...

India – Indian Staffing Federation jobs rise 6% in September quarter (The Economic Times)

The number of jobs for Indian Staffing Federation members went up by 6% in the July-September quarter with addition of 78,000 new jobs compared to the April-June quarter, reports The Economic Times. The growth was buoyed by a rise in demand for workers across sectors on the back of a strong festive season....

Japan – Jaic revenue rises 18.9% as profits post gain

Jaic (7073: TYO), a Japan-based professional services firm primarily engaged in education-integrated recruitment services, reported revenue on Thursday for the first nine months ended 31 October 2022 of JPY 2.29 billion (USD 16.9 million), a rise of 18.9% over the previous year.

Hong Kong – Kanzhun Limited proposes dual primary listing on the stock exchange of Hong Kong Limited

Kanzhun Limited (Nasdaq: BZ), whose core product is Chinese job board Boss Zhipin, announced a proposed dual primary listing on the stock exchange of Hong Kong Limited (HKEX).

The company received a letter of approval, in principle, to the listing application from the HKEX on 15 December 2022 for the...

Japan – BeNext-Yumeshin subsidiary Open Up System to take over BeNext Solutions business

Japanese technical staffing firm BeNext-Yumeshin (2154: JP), announced a business transfer between subsidiaries of its company through an absorption-type company split.

The group’s system development business BeNext Solutions Inc. (BNS) will be transferred to Open Up System Co., Ltd., (OPS) which is...

Taiwan – 104 Corp November revenue rises 9.8%

Job board 104 Corp (3130: TAI) published a business update for the month of November 2022.

The group posted revenue in October 2022 of TWD 175.9 million (USD 5.7 million), an increase of 9.8% compared to the same period in 2021.

The accumulated revenue to October totalled TWD 2.01 billion (USD 65.3 million),...

World – Opaque algorithms impacting freelancers’ pay and reputation (Wired)

Some freelancers say decisions by algorithms are cutting their pay and they can’t fight back, Wired reported.

Wired suggested that freelancers in the gig economy are trapped in a Kafkaesque nightmare, at the beck and call of ever-changing user reviews, performance metrics, and opaque algorithms. Although...

Japan – IT workers needed but attracting Indian tech pros a challenge (The New York Times)

Japan needs tech workers, but the world’s third-largest economy faces some challenges when recruiting tech professionals from India, The New York Times reported. Pay in Japan tends to be lower and there are steep language and cultural barriers. Rigid corporate structures can also be a frustration,...