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Episode Summary
Welcome to another episode of the Japan Scalers Podcast. Today, we are joined by Ray Sato, one of the co-founders of Grow, a fast-growing company offering recruitment services and startup consulting.
In this episode, we’ll explore Ray’s experience working at Uber Eats, where he played a key role in scaling their recruitment efforts. Ray shares valuable insights on topics ranging from recruitment in Japanese company culture to his journey as a recruiter across various organizations.
Join us as Ray Sato shares his inside knowledge on Japanese companies’s recruitment culture.
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Show Notes
0:00 intro
3:40 Ray’s story at UberEats
7:31 Services of UberEats
10:16 Ray’s competitive advantages
17:17 Uber’s competitive close rate
21:15 Challenges Ray faced in phrase one & how did he overcome
33:21 Advice from Ray
42:37 OKR & KPI
45:50 Pipeline acquisition and the recruitment internal processes
52:42 Employee value proposition (EVP)
59:52 Fintech companies’ ratio of support to sales
1:00:21 4 stages
1:12:37 What is Grow?
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