Talent Acquisition and Placement
Formulation of the guiding principles for recruitment
In 2023, we formulated the "The Kuraray Group Recruitment Guiding Principles" with the aim of ensuring that each has the necessary human resources through a consistent process to achieve the company’s growth. These guiding principles cover the process of recruiting employees across Kuraray Group, and should be applied to the systems, processes, and decision-making by each group company and organization for talent acquisition, recruitment, and onboarding. Specifically, it includes defining the requirements for necessary talent and positions, ensuring transparency and fairness in the recruitment process, thoroughly complying with laws and regulations, and establishing a clear onboarding process to ensure new employees can smoothly adapt to their duties.
Furthermore, while the competencies required vary depending on the purpose of recruitment, position, and role, the guiding principles also set out three core recruiting factors to utilize during the recruitment process—Collaboration, Initiative, and Challenge-Driven—to consider whether candidates embody Kuraray's competencies.
Flexible expatriation system (Promotion of global mobility)
Under the existing expatriation system, the opportunities to be assigned overseas were limited to non-Japanese employees due to cost issues and their own family situations. To be more flexible and to increase diversity within the group, "STEP (Short-Term Expat Policy)" for six months to less than one year has been started. Moving forward, we will accelerate global exchange of talents not only from Japan to overseas, but also from overseas to Japan and among overseas countries.
Global Succession Planning
To fully utilize our talents globally while supporting the business needs, a globally integrated talent infrastructure is needed. We are developing a common global structure and talent database so that the succession planning, which was previously done separately by each affiliate company, to be done on a global basis.
In 2024, we have started the Succession Planning globally for senior manager posts in each business and introduced a system to confirm the readiness of successors and discuss talent development plans at Talent conference. In the future, we will make use of this system to strategically recruit and assign talents across the organization.
