METI will Hold a Symposium titled “Career Changes for Human Resources Who Develop Growth Fields, and Potential for New Growth in Business Development Utilizing Various Active Human Resources”-Leading Skillful and Experienced Human Resources to Play an Active Role in Growing Industries-

In recent years, various factors, such as economic globalization as well as the low birthrate and aging population, have dramatically changed not only economic, industrial and social structures, but also industries that are expected to grow greatly in the future. Under such circumstances, human resources who have various skills and experience are considered to have great potential to promote new growth in companies as well as to develop their personal careers by utilizing their successful career changes to new growth fields, such as health care, environment and energy, and global issues.

To explore such potential, METI will hold a symposium to share opinions from experts and people involved in related businesses. In the symposium, such people will exchange views on the creation of social environments, companies' measures to recruit and utilize human resources, personal-based awareness-rising, and ideal re-education, which are necessary for smooth career changes for such human resources and companies' cultivation of new business potential. METI is looking forward to seeing you there.

1. Date: 14:00-17:00 (open at 13:30), Thursday, March 14, 2013

2. Venue: Event hall, Belle Salle Kudan
   Address: Third floor, Sumitomo Realty & Development Kudan Building, 1-8-10, Kudan-kita, Chiyoda Ward, Tokyo

3. Capacity and expected attendees
   Capacity: 400 (free of charge)
   Expected attendees: People involved in company management and planning, those in charge of human resources, those involved in human resource business, and others

   Note: We will close applications when the number of applicants reaches full capacity.

4. Outline of the program

   for details, please see the Appendix(PDF:1,169KB) (in Japanese)

   Keynote speech

   Speaker: Mr. Shunsuke Takahashi, project professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University

   Topic: Career changes for human resources who develop growth fields, and the role to be played by companies-Presentation on careers in the 21st century (pending)

   Reports on case studies

   Topic: Measures for securing and utilizing human resources for companies in growth fields

   Expected speakers: Two persons from companies in growth fields (pending)

   Panel discussion

   Topic: Career changes for human resources who develop growth fields, and potential for new growth in business development utilizing various active human resources (pending)

   Facilitator: Mr. Tomohiro Sudo, chief researcher, Intelligence HITO Research Institute Ltd.

   Expected panelists

   People from companies in growth fields and human resources businesses, and METI officials

Note: Please note that the program and speakers may be changed due to unavoidable reasons.

To apply for the symposium and for details of the program, please visit the following URL:

http://www.mizuho-ir.co.jp/seminar/info/2013/meti-jinzai.html (in Japanese)

February 15, 2013

Human Resources Policy, Economic and Industrial Policy Bureau