Our Efforts toward Gender Parity
Recruit Group remains focused on achieving gender parity by the end of FY2030. While each of our business units operates in a unique context, they are adopting strategies to fulfill our shared sustainability goals, in full compliance with all local laws.
HR Technology SBU
Indeed, a part of HR Technology SBU, upholds Inclusion & Belonging as a core value. It believes that by embracing various perspectives and experiences, it can create a better workplace, make more effective decisions, and foster greater innovation. The company aims to create a workplace where everyone feels valued for who they are, has a sense of belonging, and has equal opportunities for growth.
Staffing SBU
Staffing SBU has already achieved gender parity among all employees and in managerial positions. The only remaining challenge toward gender parity is in senior executives. To achieve this goal, the SBU has been implementing various leadership development programs across its operating companies.
CEO Challenge
CEO Challenge is an internal leadership development program for senior key talent, including women, to learn how to address a business problem and provide a solution by approaching real social or business cases. Each team entering the challenge is asked to address the following criteria during its business proposals: close the opportunity gap, inspire new ways of working and celebrate inclusion and belonging. Through the process, coaching, strategic workshops and mentoring opportunities are provided to help them bring their ideas to life.
Since the start of the program in 2020, nine teams entered the Challenge and five projects have continued as real business programs. In the 2024 Challenge, seven more teams joined the competition.
Succession Planning
Staffing SBU is advancing succession planning for its senior executives, including CEOs of major subsidiaries and SBU executives, while annually assessing if they were able to list senior executive candidates with various skills and backgrounds. The SBU also supports leadership development through 360 feedback assessments, and by providing opportunities for mentoring and coaching alongside specific development programs when required.
Mentor Me
Mentor Me is a global mentorship program started in 2023 to develop senior leaders, which include women, and digital talent capability. Participants who aspire to become leaders are linked to colleagues in the senior leadership level of Staffing SBU to benefit from their experiences and gain new perspectives on their own career development. Since the start in February 2023, the program has already engaged over 100 participants worldwide from the Staffing SBU.
Marketing Matching Technologies SBU
Recruit, a major subsidiary of Marketing Matching Technologies SBU*2, is committed to achieving both job satisfaction, which leads to career and evolution for all employees, and a flexible work environment suiting individual needs.
In terms of providing a flexible work environment, Recruit has been advancing initiatives since 2006 to provide an environment and opportunities where all employees can fully demonstrate their abilities. As a result, there is virtually no gender disparity in both years of continuous employment and the ratio of employees working while raising children.
Furthermore, following the announcement of Recruit Group's gender parity goals in 2021, Recruit has accelerated efforts to create a fair workplace where all employees, including women, can fully realize their potential and find greater meaning in their work. In addition to company-wide initiatives such as clarifying management requirements and implementing the "Co-AL" program, each organization has developed its own "Three-Year Inclusion Promotion Plan" led by responsible officers, integrating these efforts into their business and organizational strategies. As a result, the percentage of women in management positions increased from 26.3% in 2021 to 35.1% by FY2025.
“Co-AL” Program
Recruit offers programs with the aim of creating various types of leadership among its employees.
The “Co-AL” program systematizes Recruit’s long-standing employee development methods. It involves having multiple managers understand each employee’s values and motivations, and to create career plans that leverage individual differences.
- On this webpage, the number of years stated are reflective of the number of Recruit Holdings fiscal years, which begin on April 1 each year and end March 31 of the following year. All figures displayed here are approximate.
- Matching & Solutions Strategic Business Unit (SBU) was renamed Marketing Matching Technologies SBU in FY2025.