Toyota's Employment Plan for Clerical Work

(Oita Godo Newspaper, March 9^th 2010, evening paper)

Toyota Motor Corporation announced its employment plan for the year 2010 (the new employees will start working from April 2011). Because of the unclear future due to the critical condition, Toyota announced that they plan to hire 1,200 people.

The recruitments fell dramatically from 1,376 people. Every year depending on the condition and needs, the number of mid-career recruitments will vary, just like the recruitment after the economic bubble burst in the year 1994.

Toyota suffered in deficit, because of the large-scale recall problem (free recollection and repair of defect cars from all over the world), its sales is severely affected but that. Toyota cut its personal expenses; it aspires to quickly recover to its former self who had a lot of achievements. However, as the leading company in Japan, Toyota's current bad condition has made an impact on other companies as well, resulting in the difficult period for job-hunting.

In 2009, Toyota hired 143 new employees, concentrating on junior-college graduates and technical school graduates. Including university graduates, higher vocational school graduates and mid-career recruitments, Toyota hired 460 people which are less than the actual 516 people.

Recruitments from junior colleges, technical schools, and high schools were 500 people in average. Toyota will increase the recruitments for technology-savvy talents in Toyota Manufacturing Academy from year to year.

Comments:

It was indeed unfortunate that there was a defect in their products. However, human beings can never be perfect. Although it was surprising and disappointing to know that a big company's products were faulty, we should give them the chance to repair the things that they need to, and the chance for them to come back to the market. I believe this is just a normal cycle when a company experiences downfalls at times. The business will return to normal, and also the employment rate, since Toyota cares a lot about its employment condition.

NUGROHO Katarina Marsha Utama

Indonesia

Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University, APM3