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Asian Founders at Work: Stories from the Region’s Top Technopreneurs
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Asian Founders at Work: Stories from the Region’s Top Technopreneurs

by Ezra Ferraz, Gracy Fernandez
December 2019
Beginner
272 pages
8h 31m
English
Apress
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© Ezra Ferraz, Gracy Fernandez 2020
E. Ferraz, G. FernandezAsian Founders at Workhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5162-1_14

14. Akiko Naka: CEO and Founder, Wantedly

Ezra Ferraz1  and Gracy Fernandez1
(1)
Makati City, Philippines
 

In 2010, Akiko Naka founded Wantedly in Tokyo, Japan. Originally conceived as a question-and-answer site similar to Quora, Naka eventually pivoted Wantedly into a social recruiting site built around casual office visits.

Job seekers could meet HR representatives at the office for a chat, and if there was mutual interest, proceed to a more formal interview. The experience was designed to find the kind of culture-fit employees who not only perform better, but stay longer.

Naka taught herself to code to build the original version ...

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