SKILLSFORGE · JAPAN TALENT-MARKET OBSERVATORY
AI will reshape the work.
See exactly which work — task by task.
SkillsForge deconstructs 362 live job postings across Japan's finance, technology and HR markets into 3,058 tasks and 1,752 skills, scores each for AI exposure — and turns the evidence into the decision HR actually owns: Buy, Build, Borrow, or Bot.
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Refreshed twice a month from Japan's live job market — finance · technology · HR.
One question — “what do we do about AI?” — answered for the seat you sit in.
TALENT ACQUISITION
Your hardest hires, ranked
Which roles are genuinely scarce right now, who you're competing with for them — and when hiring is the wrong lever entirely.
TALENT MANAGEMENT & L&D
A build agenda worth funding
Skills ranked by investment quality: the durable ones worth building, the fast-decaying ones worth renting, and the commodities worth skipping.
HR DIRECTORS
The whole portfolio, one view
Every role's Buy / Build / Borrow / Bot read side by side — and which single system investment unlocks the most AI value across the function.
Not another AI think-piece.
Task-level evidence
Judgments built from real postings deconstructed into 3,058 tasks — not job-title guesswork.
Realizable, not theoretical
AI exposure is a ceiling. Six organizational enablers gate what AI actually delivers — we score both, and show the gap.
A recommendation, not a score
Every role ends in a sourcing call — Buy, Build, Borrow, or Bot — with the reasoning laid out, ready for the room.
Alive, not a report
The market is re-scanned twice a month. Postings age, scarcity shifts, and every read updates with the evidence.
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.
362live postings say more about AI's trajectory in Japan than any forecast. Sign in and read them the way your workforce plan needs.