Rebirth Tokyo 1986

Chapter 290 Good News in the Darkness
Since he had agreed to the principals' requests, after the Spring Festival, Masato Takeshita immediately sent the expansion content prepared last year to the company's senior management.

The main targets are Xinghai Technology, Xinghai Hi-Tech, Xinghai Life, as well as the persons in charge of operating systems, communication equipment, software engineering, etc. that have not yet been grouped.

As for Xinghai Entertainment and Xinghai Capital, they were just joining in the fun. The combined number of recruits from the two companies barely exceeded 200.

It was not enough to just distribute it to everyone, the young man called everyone together for a meeting.

“For a company, it is far from enough to just make money. It also needs to have a certain sense of social responsibility.”

"At a time when Japanese college students are having difficulty finding jobs, our group needs to demonstrate its dedication. So without much thought, I directly agreed to the requests of various universities to recruit more than 8000 college graduates and about 1 social jobs."

"Everyone must carry forward the spirit and recruit as many people as possible based on my regulations."

"Of course, we can't just recruit on a larger scale to complete the task. We must plan it in advance and fill in as many positions as the company needs as possible."

"Haven't Xinghai Hi-Tech and Xinghai Technology always complained about being short-staffed? And the CDMA technology communication project team that is following Qualcomm in developing technology has also been complaining about being short-staffed, hasn't it?"

"This time the company is giving you a chance. Please fill in the staff for me and try your best to make all the company's products world-class."

CDMA technology has just been developed, and Qualcomm does not have many core patents. Xinghai Group is now entering the market with a big investment, and it can at least get one-third of Qualcomm's market share.

If we can really come up with a basic patent that cannot be avoided, we may even have a chance to get more.

Masato Takeshita does not want his company to be strangled by Qualcomm in CDMA technology and become Qualcomm's money-making machine.

Hearing the serious and majestic voice of their president, everyone knew that the young man was serious.

Everyone sat upright, not daring to be as relaxed as they usually were in meetings.

Enrollment must be expanded to meet the president’s minimum requirements.

If that doesn't work, the new employees will be retrained and transformed into employees in computer, electronics and other engineering fields.

Yes, it means re-training after the transformation.

There is no way around it. The hardest hit area for unemployment in universities is students majoring in arts and science. Especially students majoring in arts, they are a serious drag on the schools.

The expanded enrollment is mainly aimed at students majoring in liberal arts and some science students.

Of course, this was 1993, and Japan’s tech industry as a whole was still making progress.

After 1995, no subject was useful anymore.

There are also a lot of unemployed people who study engineering, and the higher the education level, the worse it is.

Many doctoral students can only work as temporary teachers in schools with a meager salary, hoping to be successfully converted to full-time teachers one day.

How meager?

With an annual salary of just over 200 million, which is around Japan's poverty line, he is not as good as those high school graduates who do odd jobs.

You should know that the average salary in Japan is over 400 million yen.

Even the most ordinary waiter can earn at least 250 million yuan per year.

The salary of a PhD student is not as good as that of the lowest-level waiter. If it had not actually happened later, no one would have dared to believe it.

Simply magical.

Worse still, the Japanese economy continued to fail to improve, and the government’s funding for colleges and universities was further reduced. Finally, the policy was directly stipulated that temporary teachers would not have the opportunity to become regular teachers.

In this way, high-education poverty has gradually become a special term in Japanese society.

Together with female poverty, these are two special phenomena in Japan's employment ice age.

I can only say that this world is too crazy, and a high level of education can also be the cause of poverty.

After the meeting, Lou Gerstner took his own list to find Fujio Masuoka.

"Mr. Masuoka, you should have heard about the employment situation of Japanese college students, right?"

"Yes, someone from my alma mater asked me to recruit more graduate students and doctoral students this year."

Fujio Masuoka thought of his teacher's request and finally had to say hello to the recruiting department.

As long as people live in this secular world, they cannot avoid various circles and interpersonal relationships.

"It's like this. Our president is considering the employment difficulties of college students and plans to have the group accept more than 8000 college graduates."

Lou Gerstner showed an aggrieved expression, hoping to express his helplessness.

"so much?"

"Yes, that's all."

"Then let me think about it."

Fujio Masuoka is very considerate of others and he has never thought of blaming the chairman or the president.

"This won't work, and this won't work either. Well, it still won't work?"

After much thought, Fujio Masuoka felt that the room could not accommodate more than 8000 newcomers.

There are too many to manage. Recruiting them all to the lab at once is simply cheating people.

At this time, Lou Gerstner noticed that his words seemed ambiguous.

He quickly interrupted Fujio Masuoka's thoughts.

"It's not our company that has more than 8000 people. The entire group has recruited more than 8000 people, including more than 4500 people at Xinghai Technology."

"Is that so? That should be no problem. Xinghai Electronics and Xinghai Chip alone can accommodate another 3000 people this year. The remaining 1500 people can be easily absorbed by Xinghai Wafer, Xinghai Manufacturing, Xinghai Hardware and other companies."

"Ah That's good."

Lou Gerstner let out a long sigh, then remembered what the president had said not long ago.

"The president said that if the company can increase the number of people, it will do so. Now this is just a guaranteed quota."

Recruiting one more student may mean saving a family. Masato Takeshita hopes that Xinghai Group will be given a thumbs-up when people mention it in the future.

"Yes, no problem. I will try my best to determine the number of people for scientific research."

"Okay, we will also recruit more civilian staff."

Xinghai Technology also has clerical positions, but the number is small. And many of the clerical positions are converted from science and engineering men.

This is also the characteristic of Xinghai Technology, which is dominated by graduates of science and engineering.

Of course, at the highest level of Xinghai Technology, the strength of arts and sciences is roughly equal.

On the one hand, it is too scientific and the style can easily become cold and lose its humanistic care.

On the other hand, it is easy to focus only on technological innovation and ignore market development.

Of course, there are many disadvantages to a company dominated by liberal arts.

The most typical example is that the company does not focus on technological innovation and pursues profits too much.

The greatest truth is to combine the two into one and promote each other's development.

Xinghai Technology was busy due to an order from Masato Takeshita, and the same was true for Xinghai Life.

Matsumoto Manufacturing has generally confirmed that it can expand its recruitment to a relatively small extent. However, the situation is different for its two major subsidiaries, Xinghai Food and Xinghai Clothing.

Xinghai Food’s Pulse energy drink is expanding rapidly around the world and needs to recruit a large number of employees.

Originally, Kobayashi Hiroaki was going to proceed conservatively, but now that the president has made a request, he naturally has to recruit people according to a more optimistic plan.

The same is true for Xinghai Clothing. Thanks to the promotion of the minimalist trend, the company's eponymous brand has received maximum exposure.

It is not only popular in Japan, but also in Europe and the United States.

The company also needs to recruit enough people this year to operate and develop.

As for Xinghai Construction, it depends on how many rural orders the company can grab. The more orders it grabs, the more people it recruits; the fewer orders it grabs, the fewer people it recruits. In the end, Kobayashi Hiroaki simply calculated the number of people and found that it actually exceeded the target by more than 1000 people.

"Very good, I should be able to get the president's praise."

"Huh, you want to fight me? How is that possible?"

When Kobayashi Hiroaki thought of Suzuki Zensuke's dishonest hands, he wanted to cut them off as soon as possible.

In addition, other subsidiaries are also trying their best to recruit as many students as possible.

The final list submitted to the youth actually contained 11650 names.

"Great, then the company headquarters will recruit another 350 people to make it a perfect number."

Masato Takeshita suddenly developed obsessive-compulsive disorder and directly gathered a group of 1.2 people.

As for the social recruitment part, it is aimed at experts and experienced people, and we are not afraid of having too many people.

In addition, factories recruit mainly those with low education.

Of course, if highly educated talents are willing to work as screwdrivers, Xinghai Group will not reject them. In fact, it is relatively easier for them to get promoted and get a raise.

After determining the total number, the young man began to carefully consider the number of recruits each company would like to recruit.

"Xinghai Technology is indeed the biggest contributor, but I didn't expect Xinghai Life to be so good. The two companies have contributed nearly 9000 people, which is amazing."

"Xinghai Entertainment is also very good. They can offer more than 400 jobs. It should be that the game industry has made great efforts."

"Sure enough, the enrollment expansion is mainly focused on the gaming section."

The young man showed an expression that said "as expected" and then took a sip of red tea proudly.

“Companies like Xinghai Hi-Tech are also very good, recruiting more than 2000 people.”

As for Xinghai Investment, the young man glanced at it and ignored it. The number of recruits was too small, only the stipulated 50 people, so there was no need to care about it.

“It has great potential.”

The various businesses of Xinghai Group may seem insignificant and they are not making any money for the time being, but they require a lot of people.

It is estimated that soon, companies such as Xinghai Hi-Tech will compete with Xinghai Technology for talent.

"That's great, that's great. Xinghai Group will always be hungry."

Although Xinghai Group is already a large group with more than 10 employees, it is still in a period of rapid expansion and has a huge demand for employees.

The more than 2 people recruited this time (1.2 college graduates + general factory workers), plus the more than 2 people originally planned to be recruited, can still be easily integrated into the group.

This is also the advantage of being in a period of growth, as people won’t do too much dirty work.

Once the company's development reaches a bottleneck, it will not be as easy for new employees to integrate into the group as it is now.

Those who do a good job naturally need to be praised, so the young man directly convened a staff meeting and promoted the contributions of Lou Gerstner, Fujio Masuoka, Hiroaki Kobayashi and others to every employee through television.

At the same time, we also want to let everyone know that the company's further expansion is mainly to solve social difficulties, not because it really needs so many people.

Establish in the minds of employees the image that the company is a responsible company and the leader is a responsible leader.

Full of positive energy.

“I hope that the staff in charge of recruitment can identify potential talents as much as possible and not miss any potential talents.”

“The company needs more talents to promote development, and individuals also need the company as a big stage to realize their dreams.”

“We build each other up and create a better society.”

At the end, Masato Takeshita, who had been speaking without a script, spoke in a somewhat disorganized manner.

But no one cared. People just remembered that they must take this recruitment seriously.

Soon, as if by accident, the news that Xinghai Group was planning to recruit again after college graduates spread throughout all major media.

"Hello, I'm a reporter from the Asahi Shimbun. Is the news about Xinghai Group recruiting another 1.2 college graduates true?"

“Yes, the company does have this document meeting.”

"Okay, thank you. So when is the recruitment time and where is the recruitment location? What should I pay attention to during the recruitment process?"

Faced with a series of questions from reporters, the young lady from the publicity department, who had been prepared, responded patiently.

"The time is from 3 am to 17 pm on March 8th, and the location is Chiba Makuhari Messe."

"It's mainly about paying attention to safety and protecting your belongings, these are routine matters."

Chiba Makuhari Messe is currently the largest exhibition center in Japan. As for the larger Tokyo Exhibition Center, it had to wait until 1996 to open.

Masato Takeshita has spared no effort in promoting his own group.

"Okay, thank you. And then there's..."

At this time, Xinghai Group's External Propaganda Department became the busiest department of the company.

Not only the media and TV stations, but also many well-informed ordinary people used various methods to find the phone number of Xinghai Group and then made relevant inquiries.

There were housewives, middle-aged people who were working, and college graduates. Even some families who had received internal appointments could not help but call to inquire.

Xinghai Group's reputation in Japan has skyrocketed.

"Takeshita-kun, you really set off a big firework, and solved a lot of our problems."

Keizo Obuchi was very well-informed and even knew about this before the media.

"No, this is what we should do. The country is in trouble for the time being, and companies with good performance will naturally help."

It is a tradition among Japanese companies for companies with good performance to help companies with poor performance.

However, it was precisely this model of assistance that led to the rampant zombie companies in Japan.

Of course, nothing has happened yet and no one has noticed the harm.

Therefore, Keisuke Obuchi praised loudly: "Yes, that's the way it should be."

"If everyone helps each other, we can get through this crisis soon."

The young man responded cheerfully, "Yes, that's what I thought, so I recruited more graduates."

"You are indeed a role model for the nation. I hope Xinghai Group will continue to grow stronger."

"Thank you very much, thank you very much, you are really kind to me."

Because of the donations to China, the donations made by Youth and Xinghai Group over the years were exposed.

Everyone then realized that the Xinghai Group had donated more than 2 billion US dollars, and the young man himself had donated 600 to 700 million US dollars.

Since then, Masato Takeshita has been given the title of national role model.

Those who don’t know would think that he was the reincarnation of Yuan Shao.

The young man didn't want to dwell on this, so he quickly changed the subject and asked, "Senior Xiao Yuan called me suddenly, is there something wrong?"

"Is such that……"

It turned out that the internal admission results of the Faculty of Literature at Waseda University this year were too poor, and someone came to him for help, hoping to help recruit a few more students to the Faculty of Literature.

"No problem, it's a piece of cake."

"That's good. I can't help it. My classmate is begging me."

"Yes, I understand. I understand."

(End of this chapter)