Skills Observatory · Japan talent marketAI will reshape the work.
See exactly which work — task by task.
The Skills Observatory deconstructs Japan’s finance, technology, HR, supply chain, marketing/CX, manufacturing & professional services markets into 1,605 live job postings, 14,084 tasks and 6,838 skills.
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Skills to build, by investment quality
live from today’s corpusSize = market demand (across roles) · color = investment type · number = quality score.
6 live postings · 67% sitting open past two weeks — ceiling, readiness and market assembled into the sourcing call above.
Computed from today’s corpus — every role inside gets this same read.
How we got this read
Five beats, ninety seconds, real data — the same walk that teaches the whole method: tasks → score → skills → ceiling → the read.
Refreshed weekly from Japan’s live job market — finance, technology, HR, supply chain, marketing/CX, manufacturing & professional services. Postings observed from Deloitte Tohmatsu · Amazon · KPMG Japan · RSM Shiodome Partners · Marriott International · Tata Consultancy Services Japan and dozens more employers.
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Evidence that drives better decisions
From hiring difficulty to skills investment and workforce planning — see the signals that matter.
Hiring difficulty
Hardest right now: Marketing & Communications Agencies — its live postings have been open a median 123 days.
Skills investment
Focus on skills with high demand and high investment quality.
Workforce planning
Environment readiness gates how much of the AI ceiling is realizable today — plan enablement and reskilling from it.
Methodology in the open
The analytical machinery follows published frameworks — Reinventing Jobs (Jesuthasan & Boudreau), The Skills-Powered Organization(Jesuthasan & Kapilashrami) and the SHRM BASK — applied to live Japanese market data. The full methodology, source attribution and data lineage sit one click away inside, because a recommendation you can't interrogate is just an opinion.
The market is already moving. See it.
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