Fact-finding Survey on Job Changing Activities of Accounting and Finance Professionals

Rex Advisors Co., Ltd. (https://www.career-adv.jp/), which provides job change support specializing in accounting and finance professionals, conducted a "Fact-finding Survey on Job Changing Activities of Accounting and Finance Professionals" and compiled 534 valid samples.

For this survey, we utilized the survey panel of PRISMA Co., Ltd. (https://www.prizma-link.com/).

The full text of the survey results is available on Rex Advisors Co., Ltd.'s survey report page (https://www.career-adv.jp/report/research_04/).

Survey Results Summary

・ Common triggers for job changes among accounting professionals are "interpersonal relationship troubles" and "salary increase," both at 20%. "Increase in workload" and "resignation of superiors or colleagues" follow at 10% each.

・ Over 40% of job seekers experienced a change in their "most important factors" when choosing a workplace through their job search activities.

・ 18% of the total achieved career advancement through job change activities, and 25% achieved career advancement through promotion after changing jobs, with a total of 43% achieving career advancement through job changes.

Changes in positions before and after job change for accounting professionals who changed jobs within the last 3 years

Motives and Triggers for Job Change

・ 40% of job changers were dissatisfied with their previous salary, and more than half of them (22% of job changers) cited salary as their biggest dissatisfaction.

・ Aside from salary, dissatisfaction with working style (39% of job changers), dissatisfaction with personnel evaluation (32% of the same), and dissatisfaction with job content (30% of the same) were among the top dissatisfactions with their previous job.

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