This article was translated from Japanese by Claude Code.
I remembered a senior colleague at the company saying “This looks interesting,” bought it, and read it. After reading it quickly, here are my impressions and three highlights.
Content#
The content addresses how companies can survive in today’s challenging recruitment and labor shortage environment (due to population decline), introducing effective methods and approaches through examples from Recruit. The writing style often follows a pattern of “In this situation, approach B is more effective than approach A,” but as stated in the book’s afterword:
I wanted to summarize universal and systematic thinking about HR and hiring
I felt the book emphasized the “thinking” about HR and hiring.
Recommended For#
Those who have managed HR and hiring for many years might find some familiar content, but for those currently in HR or hiring roles, employees involved in these areas, or those who will take such positions in the future and are interested, I’d recommend reading it. I also found the section near the end about hiring international talent personally interesting.
Finally, I’ll close by highlighting three passages from what I underlined that were particularly impressive.
3 Highlights#
Organizational structure must change to match business strategy. However, what’s difficult is that organizations have “inertia,” making change difficult.
Installing systems alone won’t be effective without a foundation to support them. The most important part of building that foundation is the “who” in “who,” “what,” and “how.”
It’s generally said that “for an organization to adapt to environmental changes, it needs to create diversity within the organization equivalent to the external environment.”