Japan's Top Employer of Choice: Nitori's Secret to HR Marketing Success
๐ Summary
Japanese furniture company Nitori revolutionized every stage of recruitment by viewing job seekers as customers. Through HR marketing that consistently delivers on its growth promise, it leaped from 28th place in employer preference in 2014 to become Japan's top employer for three consecutive years starting in 2023.
๐ Why It Matters! (Significance and Context)
Amid concerns that future labor shortages will intensify due to demographic shifts and low-growth trends, talent acquisition strategies relying solely on compensation are reaching their limits. In this context, Nitori Japan's case—achieving unparalleled top employer preference in the recruitment market despite being a furniture retailer with relatively poor working conditions and low perceived growth opportunities—offers an effective solution for the impending talent acquisition crisis. Crucially, Nitori's success highlights that a shift in perspective—viewing job seekers as customers—is key to building recruitment branding, providing a vital lesson for Korean companies.
๐ฅ Key Takeaways
1️⃣ Implementing a recruitment strategy thoroughly focused on job seeker needs
- By redefining the purpose and content of its internship program to focus on exploring aptitude and career paths—the primary concerns of university students—rather than merely promoting the company or adding color to the recruitment process for talent acquisition.
- They fostered the perception that ‘starting your job search at Nitori is a good idea,’ turning it into a popular program attracting over 30,000 applicants annually for early recruitment rounds. This naturally guides interns to recognize growth opportunities within Nitori.
- They actively leveraged data analytics to innovate the recruitment process, using it as a foundation to meticulously understand job seekers' needs and correct inefficient practices.
2️⃣ Approaching successful candidates from a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) perspective
- Treating successful candidates as customers, we focused on enhancing the density of experience at customer touchpoints by approaching issues from a CRM perspective.
- Assigning a dedicated recruiter per successful candidate to provide close management, including feedback on selection results, information on growth opportunities based on strengths and weaknesses, and alleviating the anxieties of new graduates.
- Providing close management without pressuring them to join, objectively considering better options together, and putting into practice the belief that a satisfying experience leads to a positive company image and increased future applicants.
3️⃣ Building Trust Through Cultivating High-Quality Professional Recruiters and Consistently Delivering on the ‘Growth Promise’
- Recruiters are primarily selected from talented individuals with 3-5 years of experience who demonstrate high loyalty and a strong understanding of job seekers' perspectives. They are then trained to deeply engage in the entire recruitment process with expertise, separated from their regular duties during this period.
- As the embodiment of the ‘Growth Promise’, trust is built by fulfilling the commitment through job rotation training after joining. Opportunities for job rotation across 63 job types are provided in their 20s, while opportunities to excel as specialists based on expertise are offered in their 30s and beyond.
- We establish a member-driven development system, including creating a ‘30-Year Career Plan’. We execute training investment at five times the average of Japanese listed companies, internalizing the EVP of providing growth opportunities.
๐ In summary
Nitori's success in HR Marketing points the way forward for companies in an era of low growth and intensifying talent acquisition challenges. Nitori overcame its weakness as a furniture retailer by adopting a thoroughly marketing-oriented perspective, viewing job seekers as ‘customers’. By analyzing customer needs, it restructured its internship program into a platform for career exploration, attracting potential applicants. Furthermore, it enhanced its corporate image through genuine sincerity—providing CRM-based close management via dedicated recruiters to successful candidates without pressuring them to join. Most crucially, it consistently delivered on the ‘growth promise’ made during recruitment after hiring through initiatives like job rotation training and establishing long-term career plans, thereby building trust. Through these four core elements—data-driven recruitment strategy, long-term, consistent execution, company-wide capability utilization, and establishing a clear EVP—Nitori successfully built its recruitment branding and solidified the foundation for maintaining its position as the top employer of choice.
๐ท️ Keywords
#HRmarketing #Nitori #jobpreference #recruitmentbranding #jobseekercustomerperspective #CRM #growthpromise #jobrotation #EVP #talentacquisition #recruiter #datadrivenrecruitment
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๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก ์ฑ์ฉ์ ์ ๋จ๊ณ๋ฅผ ํ์ ํ๊ณ ์ฑ์ฅ ์ฝ์์ ์ผ๊ด๋๊ฒ ์ค์ฒํ๋ HR๋ง์ผํ
์ ํตํด 2014๋
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์ ํธ๋ 28์์์ 2023๋
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๐ ์ ์ค์ํ๊ฐ! (์๋ฏธ์ ๋งฅ๋ฝ)
์ธ๊ตฌ ๊ตฌ์กฐ ๋ณํ์ ์ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐ์กฐ๋ก ์ธํด ๋ฏธ๋ ์ธ๋ ฅ๋์ด ์ฌํ๋ ์ฐ๋ ค๊ฐ ์ปค์ง๋ฉด์ ๋ณด์์๋ง ์์กดํ๋ ์ธ์ฌ ํ๋ณด ์ ๋ต์ ํ๊ณ์ ์ง๋ฉดํ๊ณ ์๋ค
๐ฅ ํต์ฌ ํฌ์ธํธ (Key takeaways)
1️⃣ ๊ตฌ์ง์ ๋์ฆ์ ์ฒ ์ ํ ์ง์คํ ์ฑ์ฉ ์ ๋ต ๊ตฌ์ฌ
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. ์ฑ์ฉ ํ๋ก์ธ์ค ํ์ ์ ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๋ถ์์ ์ ๊ทน ํ์ฉํ์ฌ ๊ตฌ์ง์์ ๋์ฆ๋ฅผ ๋ฉด๋ฐํ ํ์ ํ๊ณ ๋นํจ์จ์ ๊ดํ์ ์์ ํ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ผ๋ก ์ผ์์
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2️⃣ ํฉ๊ฒฉ์ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ๊ด๊ณ ๊ด๋ฆฌ(CRM) ๊ด์ ์์ ์ ๊ทผ
ํฉ๊ฒฉ์๋ฅผ ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ผ๋ก ๋ณด๊ณ , CRM ๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ฌธ์ ์ ์ ๊ทผํ์ฌ ๊ณ ๊ฐ ์ ์ ์์์ ๊ฒฝํ ๋ฐ๋๋ฅผ ๋์ด๋ ๋ฐ ์ฃผ๋ ฅํจ
. ํฉ๊ฒฉ์ ํ ๋ช ๋น ์ ๋ด ๋ฆฌํฌ๋ฃจํฐ๋ฅผ ๋ฐฐ์นํ์ฌ ์ ํ ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ ํผ๋๋ฐฑ, ์ฅ๋จ์ ์ ๋ฐ๋ฅธ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ ์ฐ๊ฒฐ ์ ๋ณด ์ ๊ณต, ์ฌํ ์ด๋ ์์ ๋ถ์๊ฐ ๊ฒฝ๊ฐ ๋ฑ ๋ฐ์ฐฉ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํจ
. ๋ฐ์ฐฉ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ํ๋ ์ ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ํ์ง ์๊ณ , ๊ฐ๊ด์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ ์ข์ ์ ํ์ ํจ๊ป ๊ณ ๋ฏผํด์ฃผ๋ฉฐ, ๋ง์กฑ์ค๋ฌ์ด ๊ฒฝํ์ด ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง์ ํฅํ ์ง์์ ์ฆ๊ฐ๋ก ์ด์ด์ง๋ค๋ ๋ฏฟ์์ ์ค์ฒํจ
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3️⃣ ์์ง์ ์ ๋ฌธ ๋ฆฌํฌ๋ฃจํฐ ์ก์ฑ ๋ฐ '์ฑ์ฅ ์ฝ์'์ ์ผ๊ด๋ ์ค์ฒ์ผ๋ก ์ ๋ขฐ ๊ตฌ์ถ
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. '์ฑ์ฅ ์ฝ์'์ ์ค์ฒด๋ก์, ์ ์ฌ ํ ์ง๋ฌด ์ํ ๊ต์ก์ผ๋ก ์ฝ์์ ์ดํํ๋ฉฐ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํจ
. 20๋์๋ 63๊ฐ ์ง์ข ์์ ์ง๋ฌด ์ํ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ, 30๋ ์ดํ์๋ ์ ๋ฌธ์ฑ์ ๋ฐํ์ผ๋ก ์คํ์ ๋ฆฌ์คํธ๋ก์ ํ์ฝํ ๊ธฐํ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํจ . '30๋ ์ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด ํ๋' ์๋ฆฝ ๋ฑ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์ ์ฃผ๋์ ์ก์ฑ ์ฒด๊ณ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ณ , ๊ต์ก๋น ํฌ์์ก์ ์ผ๋ณธ ์์ฅ ๊ธฐ์ ํ๊ท ์ 5๋ฐฐ์ ๋ฌํ๋๋ก ์งํํ๋ฉฐ ์ฑ์ฅ ๊ธฐํ ์ ๊ณต์ด๋ผ๋ EVP๋ฅผ ๋ด์ฌํํจ
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๐ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๋ฉด
๋ํ ๋ฆฌ์ HR๋ง์ผํ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ ์ฑ์ฅ๊ณผ ์ธ์ฌ ํ๋ณด๋์ด ์ฌํ๋๋ ์๋์ ๊ธฐ์ ์ด ๋์๊ฐ ๋ฐฉํฅ์ ์ ์ํ๋ค. ๋ํ ๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฐ๊ตฌ ์ ํต์ ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ฝ์ ์ ๊ทน๋ณตํ๊ธฐ ์ํด ์ฒ ์ ํ ๋ง์ผํ ๊ด์ ์์ ๊ตฌ์ง์๋ฅผ '๊ณ ๊ฐ'์ผ๋ก ์ธ์ํ๊ณ , ๊ณ ๊ฐ์ ๋์ฆ ๋ถ์์ ํตํด ์ธํด์ญ ํ๋ก๊ทธ๋จ์ ์ง๋ก ํ์์ ์ฅ์ผ๋ก ์ฌํธํ์ฌ ์ ์ฌ ์ง์์์ ๊ด์ฌ์ ๋์ด๋๋ค. ๋์๊ฐ ํฉ๊ฒฉ์์๊ฒ ์ ๋ด ๋ฆฌํฌ๋ฃจํฐ๋ฅผ ํตํ CRM ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋ฐ์ฐฉ ๊ด๋ฆฌ๋ฅผ ์ ๊ณตํ๋ฉด์๋ ์ ์ฌ๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ํ์ง ์๋ ์ง์ ์ฑ์ผ๋ก ๊ธฐ์ ์ด๋ฏธ์ง๋ฅผ ๋์๋ค. ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํ ๊ฒ์ ์ฑ์ฉ ์ ์ ์ํ '์ฑ์ฅ ์ฝ์'์ ์ง๋ฌด ์ํ ๊ต์ก ๋ฐ ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ์ธ ์ปค๋ฆฌ์ด ํ๋ ์๋ฆฝ ๋ฑ ์ ์ฌ ํ์๋ ์ผ๊ด๋๊ฒ ์ค์ฒํ์ฌ ์ ๋ขฐ๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๋ค๋ ์ ์ด๋ค. ๋ฐ์ดํฐ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ์ฑ์ฉ ์ ๋ต, ์ฅ๊ธฐ์ ๊ด์ ์ ์ผ๊ด๋ ์ถ์ง, ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ ์ฌ์ ์ญ๋ ํ์ฉ ๋ฐ ๋ช ํํ EVP ํ๋ฆฝ์ด๋ผ๋ ์ด ๋ค ๊ฐ์ง ํต์ฌ ์์๋ฅผ ํตํด ๋ํ ๋ฆฌ๋ ์ฑ์ฉ ๋ธ๋๋ฉ์ ์ฑ๊ณต์ ์ผ๋ก ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ณ ์ทจ์ ์ ํธ๋ 1์๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ๋ ๊ธฐ๋ฐ์ ๋ค์ก๋ค.
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๐จ์ฃผ์: ์ด ๋ธ๋ก๊ทธ ์๋ฃ๋ ์ ์๊ถ์ ์ํด ๋ณดํธ๋ฉ๋๋ค. ๋ธ๋ก๊ทธ์์ ๋ค๋ฃจ๋ ๋ด์ฉ์ ํฌ์ ๊ถ์ ๋ฅผ ๋ชฉ์ ์ผ๋ก ํ์ง ์์ผ๋ฉฐ, ํน์ ๊ธ์ต ์ํ์ ๋งค์ ๋๋ ๋งค๋๋ฅผ ๊ถ์ฅํ์ง ์์ต๋๋ค. ํฌ์ ๊ฒฐ์ ์ ์ ์ ์ผ๋ก ๋ณธ์ธ์ ์ฑ ์ ํ์ ์ด๋ฃจ์ด์ ธ์ผ ํ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๋ธ๋ก๊ทธ์์ ์ฑ ์์ง์ง ์์ต๋๋ค.