- Title: JAPAN: JAPANESE FIRM HOLDS JOB INTERVIEWS ON TOP OF MOUNT FUJI.
- Date: 23rd August 2005
- Summary: (L!3) SHIZUOKA PREFECTURE, JAPAN (AUGUST 23, 2005) (REUTERS) 1. LV/ZOOM IN/GV: MOUNT FUJI SEEN FROM THE ROAD SIDE 0.18 (L!3) ON TOP OF MT. FUJI, JAPAN (AUGUST 24, 2005) (REUTERS) 2. JOB APPLICANTS WALKING UP MT. FUJI 3. VARIOUS OF JOB APPLICANTS WALKING UP MOUNT FUJI 4. WOMAN TAKING IN OXYGEN FROM A CANISTER 5.
- Embargoed: 7th September 2005 13:00
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- Location: ON TOP OF MT FUJI, SHIZUOKA PREFECTURE, JAPAN
- Country: Japan
- Reuters ID: LVAZPXVK868SEJH1K7DG8VAMM5S
- Story Text: Japanese firm tells young job hunters to climb Mt Fuji if they want
work.
Some young Japanese graduates have been asked to literally climb a
mountain to get their first job.
One of the country's top Internet apparel retailers wants to make
sure new employees have what it takes to scale the heights of business by
interviewing them at the summit of the 3,776 meter (12,388 foot) Mt. Fuji.
Twenty job-seekers were asked to assemble at the peak of Japan's
most famous landmark for a dawn interview on Wednesday (August 24, 2005).
"We decided to interview these people in the hope that those
who would take part in climbing Mt. Fuji and would want to be interviewed in
this gruelling environment, would be interesting youths who have a passion for
what they want to do," said Daiji Kanda, CEO of Image Net Co.
The company received 100 job applications for the four openings
they advertised. However only 50 people decided to apply when they found out
the interview would be at the top of Japan's tallest mountain.
But on the eve of the interview, only 20 actually turned up to
start the climb and nine people dropped out half-way up the mountain. Only 11
people made it to the interview table.
Keisuke Niwa, who got one of the four jobs, said he had been drawn
to the company's originality.
"When I heard the interview was on top of Mt. Fuji, I
wondered what kind of company this was that would come up with such an idea.
So I came here wanting to find out and see for myself what this company was
about and what made it come up with such an interesting idea," he said
after his interview.
But not all had a good time.
"Actually I have never climbed Mt. Fuji before, so I actually
came with the simple idea of wanting to climb the mountain. But I was not
properly prepared. When we climbed the mountain for the sunrise this morning I
got drenched and it was a pretty tough experience for me," said Koji
Hiroichi, a 24-year-old business student.
The company hopes to hire more people next year and the interviews
may be held abroad.
"I would like to do (the next batch of interviews) at the top of Ayers
Rock in Australia," said Kanda.
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