Print media and conventional job-placement agencies are still the main players in connecting jobs to seekers, but the Internet is slowly emerging as an alternative.
"We tell our client companies that we will make life easier for them by doing most of their work to hire people," said Michael Nishi, president of Asia-Net, an online recruitment agency based in Tokyo.
Asia-Net is one of an increasing number of online recruiting agencies that post job opportunity advertisements on their Web sites and accept resumes via e-mail.