Overview
- Nojima announced that two current part-time university students will become store managers with the appointments taking effect in October.
- The student managers will hold the same budget, hiring and operational authority and receive the same待遇 as ordinary store managers, the company said.
- Both appointees are third-year male students who already work about 40 hours a week and will lead small stores in Kanagawa Prefecture.
- Nojima employs roughly 10,000 people with about half of its staff made up of student part-timers and already has six part-time store managers, making this the first public appointment of current students to manager posts.
- Company officials say the change is part of a broader HR push to retain and recruit talent from its pool of experienced student workers and to create clearer paths from part-time roles into management.