Japan carmakers grapple with big salaries for IT staff
Big pay bumps are needed because the firms are chasing the same experts that everyone else needs: headhunter
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HEADHUNTER Casey Abel spent four months trying to hire a data-centre architect for a Japanese carmaker, 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 Mr Abel, managing director at recruiter HCCR KK, who has spent as long as a year trying to land some IT candidates. "You've got some engineers making 20 million yen (US$247,519) a year. Then you try to fit them in the traditional manufacturer-based salary structure where it should be seven to nine million yen."
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