Learn why the TOEIC® tests are successful tools for more than 10,000 of the world's top organizations.
The Challenge
The Dai-ichi Mutual Life Insurance Company® has assets of more than 30 million yen (about US$384,000) and over 8 million clients. The organization needed to develop the English-language skills of their employees for better business communications.
The Solution
Dai-ichi Mutual management introduced the TOEIC® Listening and Reading test as a training tool for their new hires to assess the skills of current employees.
The Results
According to Takanori Kodama, Staff Manager at the Human Capital Development Center, the TOEIC test has become a fundamental part of language training for new hires, but it is more than an English-language study tool. In 2008, 2,200 staff members with less than 20 years’ service were required to take the test. Starting in 2009, all employees with less than 15 years’ service were required to take the test annually. The company’s objective is to develop a corporate culture of language learning.
