Embedded hiring & RPO for Japanese-speaking talent
We work inside your HR team as your recruiters, and we are strongest where hiring is usually lost: giving Japanese-speaking candidates a reason to choose you.
Unlike an agency matching many companies with many candidates, we work for you alone.
The challenge
In any market there are only so many people who work fluently in Japanese, and almost all of them are employed and already hearing from other companies. More sourcing will not close that gap. What moves a candidate is a specific reason to join you — and that reason has to exist before the first message goes out.
Selection & Attraction
Every hire is two matches: your requirements against a candidate's experience, and a candidate's priorities against what you offer. With Japanese-speaking talent, the second match is usually what decides it.
WHAT WE WANTYour requirements
WHAT WE HAVEWhat you offer
WHAT THEY WANTWhat they're looking for
WHAT THEY HAVETheir skills and experience
SELECTIONAssessDo candidates have what you're looking for?
ATTRACTIONAttractDo you offer what candidates are looking for?
Selection is well covered: structured interviews, scorecards, calibrated panels. Attraction gets talked about and rarely gets a system behind it, which is why strong companies still lose candidates they should have won.
That is the part we have built a method for.
See the Attraction TableOur Method
Decide why a Japanese speaker should choose you — before you contact the first one.
The Attraction Table is our own method. It takes what is true about your company, backs it with evidence, and translates it into what a candidate personally gains. We then write it in Japanese, so none of it is lost on the way.
The strengths in your sales deck become reasons to work for you once they are told from the candidate's point of view. “We're a large company,” for example, becomes “you'll work on large-budget projects” and “your job and career path are stable.”
01
FEATURE
Your business, roles, team and ways of working. We identify what makes your company distinctive.
02
EVIDENCE
We back each feature with facts and real stories. Specifics are what make it believable.
03
BENEFIT
What each feature means for the candidate personally, from career and work to life outside work, framed around how they make decisions.
Outreach, interviews, the way an offer is presented: all of it draws on the same reasons to choose you. Your hiring managers, your recruiters and we ourselves tell the same story, in English or in Japanese.
Our Goal
Every candidate you want to hire has decided to join by the day the offer arrives. That is the state we work toward. During the process, we connect what each candidate is looking for with what you can offer, so the offer only confirms a decision they have already made.
Results
CASE 01
Hiring software engineers against better-known competitors. We put what only this company could offer into words, and used it in every conversation with a candidate.
100%
Offer acceptance rate
Two years running: hiring targets met, and every candidate offered a role accepted
CASE 02
Japanese-speaking hires for offices outside Japan. We led the hiring end to end, from breaking down the requirements to outreach, interviews and acceptance. Across the six years, offer acceptance held at 90%.
6×
Outreach reply ratecompared with before we started
A rate that was already a little above the industry average, multiplied six times
A major Japanese information services company
Four years inside the group-wide HR function, supporting both experienced and graduate hiring
A fast-growing AI company
Reaching foreign engineers around the world and winning their applications to the head office in Japan
An early-stage AI startup
Starting with no one in HR, hiring the first HR lead and then helping build the HR team
A food-tech startup tackling the world's food supply
Joining at the founding stage, before anyone was in HR, to build and hand over a talent attraction strategy and set up the HR function
Services
We take a seat in your team, own the process from strategy to signed offer, and hand back everything we build along the way.
You keep it. It goes on working for every role you hire after we leave.
Advice is not the deliverable. We stay accountable until the offers are signed.
The pipeline of Japanese-speaking candidates, and the way of working, stay inside your company.
We run the day-to-day hiring as part of your team: pipeline, scheduling, candidate care, reporting.
We find Japanese speakers wherever they live and write to them in Japanese, in a way that gets read and answered.
With the Attraction Table, we set out why a candidate should choose you, for this market and this role.
Who to go after, where they are, what to say first, and what a realistic timeline looks like.
We tune the process, and coach your interviewers, so the appeal survives every stage of the loop.
We teach your recruiters the method, including what lands differently with Japanese-speaking candidates.
Expertise
日本語人材
Japanese nationals and fluent Japanese speakers, wherever they live — in Japan, across Asia, and further afield. Bringing them to a new country is part of the conversation we have with them.
ハイレベル人材
Engineers, consultants, corporate planning and other roles where the shortlist is small and every candidate has options.
Our Name
The Japanese word for HR, jinji (人事), is written with the characters for “people” and “matters.” Unlike Human Resources or Human Capital, it puts the focus on what people do.
A world where HR truly works, with energy and purpose: that is what the name JINJIWORKS stands for.
Company
Careers
You would work inside our clients' hiring teams: talking with candidates one by one, and putting what makes a job worth choosing into words.
We would love to hear from you if you have hiring experience and enjoy long conversations with candidates.
Get in touchContact
Not finding Japanese speakers for a role? Reaching them, but losing them at the offer? Send us the role and where hiring is stuck, and we will come back to you.
We are working on a full slate of projects at the moment, so a reply may take a little time. Urgent requests and job applications are answered first.