JILPT Research Eye
A series of labor-related information (evidence) that contributes to the formation of labor policies.
April 23, 2018 updated
Companies that Promote Employees’ Career Self-Reliance and Specific Initiatives
Senior Researcher, Department of Career Development
The concept of career self-reliance has been focused these days in the discussion on corporate personnel, labor management, and employees’ career formation, and has become one of the main topics in the field. Career self-reliance is defined as a “(personal) life-long commitment to developing one’s own career and continuing to learn new things in a rapidly changing environment,” (Hanada et al. 2003) and from the perspective of the company it is regarded as “transforming the structure of the personnel management and training system from the previous top-down organizational paradigm to that of career design and formation by the individual employee” (Hanada 2006).
