{"id":4999,"date":"2026-11-10T16:16:21","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T07:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/?p=4999"},"modified":"2026-11-10T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T07:19:31","slug":"how-to-hire-senior-leaders-in-japan-6-steps-from-role-definition-to-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/2026\/11\/how-to-hire-senior-leaders-in-japan-6-steps-from-role-definition-to-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Hire Senior Leaders in Japan: 6 Steps from Role Definition to Offer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hiring a Country Manager, CFO, HR Director, or Supply Chain Leader in Japan? In this video, FocusCore Managing Director David Sweet shares six practical steps for getting a senior hire in Japan right, from agreeing on the mandate before the search starts to keeping your candidate through the counteroffer and notice period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"How to Hire Senior Leaders in Japan: 6 Steps from Role Definition to Offer\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PNlaPzN6rro?start=41&amp;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@focuscorejapan5139\/shorts\">Watch latest short videos here<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/drdavidsweet\/\">follow David on LinkedIn<\/a> for new episodes<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hiring a Country M&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_blocks_custom_css":"","_kad_blocks_head_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_body_custom_js":"","_kad_blocks_footer_custom_js":"","_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos"],"taxonomy_info":{"category":[{"value":24,"label":"\u52d5\u753b"}]},"featured_image_src_large":["https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/maxresdefault-1024x576.webp",1024,576,true],"author_info":{"display_name":"reili-fc-34975","author_link":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/author\/reili-fc-34975\/"},"comment_info":"","category_info":[{"term_id":24,"name":"\u52d5\u753b","slug":"videos","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":24,"taxonomy":"category","description":"","parent":0,"count":11,"filter":"raw","cat_ID":24,"category_count":11,"category_description":"","cat_name":"\u52d5\u753b","category_nicename":"videos","category_parent":0}],"tag_info":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5000,"href":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4999\/revisions\/5000"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/japan.focuscoregroup.com\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}