Recruiting and Developing Web Talent through Regional and Global Hiring

「一方で、2028 年４月入社以降の新卒採用規模につきましては、AX 領域における人材需要の見通しを踏まえて改めて精査いたします。中途採用については、AX 領域の専門人材（AX コンサルタント、AX サービスエンジニア等）の獲得に絞り込み、量的な拡大を目的とした採用は抑制しております。」

「Regarding new graduate hiring, 244 people joined the company in April 2026, compared with 87 in April 2025. As profitability has improved and the shift toward on-site DX support positions has steadily progressed, we plan to expand hiring in line with the growth rate from the fiscal year ending March 2027 onward.」

「During the fiscal year, 87 graduate employees joined in April 2025, compared with 411 in April 2024. In anticipation of future profitability recovery and an accelerated shift toward positions supporting DX operations, the company plans to expand graduate recruitment again from the fiscal year ending March 2027, with 240 employees scheduled to join in April 2026.」

「Although 411 graduate employees joined in April 2024, from 2025 onward the company will restrain graduate recruitment within the growth rate of value-added revenue and seek to improve the proportion of graduates in its talent portfolio.」

「From the fiscal year ending March 2025, the company will restrain recruitment focused on graduates and make recovery of profitability its highest priority, changing from a front-loaded investment management model to a profit-focused management model.」

「As a specific measure, the company will restrain graduate recruitment until the target utilization rate of 90% for employees excluding first-year graduates and an operating margin of 10% are restored. For the fiscal year ending March 2025, graduate recruitment has been reduced to just over 400, compared with 585 in the fiscal year ended March 2024. Although the company aims for some improvement in the margin, idle costs are expected to continue, and the operating margin is not expected to recover to 10%.」

「The company recognizes the need to control idle costs to improve profitability. As a specific measure, it will restrain graduate recruitment until the target utilization rate of 90% for employees excluding first-year graduates and an operating margin of 10% are restored. For the fiscal year ending March 2025, graduate recruitment has been reduced to just over 400, compared with 585 in the fiscal year ended March 2024. Although the company aims for some improvement in the margin, idle costs are expected to continue, and the operating margin is not expected to recover to 10%.」

「The company is actively expanding graduate and mid-career recruitment to achieve its target growth rate of 25% in value-added revenue. During the cumulative first quarter, in addition to 585 graduate employees joining in April 2023, the number of mid-career hires reached 60, bringing the consolidated number of digital creators at the end of the first quarter to 2,579, up 567 from the end of the previous fiscal year.」

「By continuing to make these investments, the Group aims to expand its human capital over the medium to long term, establish a business structure with 25% revenue growth and a 10% operating margin in 2025, and grow into a company with 10,000 employees and operating profit of approximately ¥10 billion by 2030.」

「The Group shifted mid-career recruitment, which had been conducted separately by each in-house company through the fiscal year ending March 2022, to group-wide recruitment based on the Group's strategy from the fiscal year ending March 2023. Results are beginning to emerge from active recruitment investment, including hiring digital creators at a pace of more than 200 annually. This will accelerate further in the fiscal year ending March 2024, when the Group plans to expand mid-career recruitment more strategically. Although there is no change to the previous graduate recruitment and training model, from April 2024 the Group plans to restrain graduate recruitment until it is balanced with mid-career recruitment, increase the proportion of mid-career hires among all digital creators, and establish a foundation for improving service capabilities.」

「During the cumulative second quarter, the number of employees in the Group increased by 452 to 2,290, while the number of temporary employees (average headcount) was 43. This was mainly due to hiring associated with business expansion.」

「The Group is conducting ongoing recruitment as a front-loaded investment, anticipating a significant shortage of creators familiar with the internet and digital technologies. It recruits broadly from art and fine arts universities, colleges of technology, four-year universities and graduate schools. In April 2022, a total of 484 graduate employees, an increase of 120 from the previous consolidated fiscal year, joined the Group, including at regional offices. These graduate employees are scheduled to be assigned in July, with operations commencing sequentially.」

「A total of 484 graduate employees joined in April 2022 as planned.」

「During the cumulative third quarter, the number of employees in the Group increased by 352 to 1,828, while the number of temporary employees (average headcount) was 37. This was mainly due to hiring associated with business expansion.」

「The Group is conducting ongoing recruitment as a front-loaded investment, anticipating a significant shortage of creators familiar with the internet and digital technologies. It recruits broadly from art and fine arts universities, colleges of technology, vocational schools specializing in Web creativity, four-year universities and graduate schools. In April 2021, a total of 364 graduate employees, an increase of 128 from the previous year, joined the Group, including at regional offices. During the fiscal year, the assignment of graduate employees was brought forward, with operations commencing sequentially from June. A total of 481 graduate employees are scheduled to join in April 2022 as planned.」

「Recruiting and developing outstanding creators is important to the Group's business. In addition to recruitment at regional offices and graduate recruitment, the Group is focusing on rolling out its proprietary in-house training and education program, Members University. During the cumulative third quarter, in addition to hiring 138 graduate employees in April 2017, including at regional offices, subsequent mid-career recruitment and other measures increased the Group's employee count to 801 as of the end of December 2017, up 200 from the end of the previous fiscal year, and the total number of digital creators to 725, including 166 digital creators at regional offices.」

「The company recruits broadly from art and fine arts universities, colleges of technology, vocational schools specializing in Web creativity, four-year universities and graduate schools. In April 2021, a total of 364 graduate employees, an increase of 128 from the previous year, joined the Group, including at regional offices.」

「The company recruits broadly from art and fine arts universities, colleges of technology, vocational schools specializing in Web creativity, four-year universities and graduate schools. In April 2021, a total of 371 graduate employees, an increase of 135 from the previous year, are scheduled to join the Group, including at regional offices.」

「The Group actively recruited local talent through its Sendai and Kitakyushu offices, creators eager to improve their skills from art and fine arts universities, colleges of technology and vocational schools specializing in Web creativity, and producers who graduated from universities and graduate schools, in anticipation of the rapid future expansion of the digital economy and the resulting significant shortage of digital creators. As a result, it hired a total of 236 graduate employees in April 2020, an increase of 63 from the previous year, including at regional offices.」

「As a result, it hired a total of 173 graduate employees in April 2019, an increase of 13 from the previous year, including at regional offices.」

「During the cumulative third quarter, the number of employees in the Group increased by 248 to 1,264, while the number of temporary employees (average headcount) was 13. This was mainly due to hiring associated with business expansion. In addition, the Group advanced an office strategy to support employment for creators living outside major cities and enable flexible working arrangements suited to their lifestyles, opening new offices in Sapporo, Hokkaido, in October 2019 and Fukuoka, Fukuoka Prefecture, in November. It was also selected as a Telework Pioneer for its introduction and use of telework.」

「During the cumulative second quarter, the number of employees in the Group increased by 208 to 1,224, while the number of temporary employees (average headcount) was 12. This was mainly due to hiring associated with business expansion.」

「As a result, it hired a total of 173 graduate employees in April 2019, an increase of 13 from the previous year, including at regional offices.」

「In addition, anticipating the rapid future expansion of the digital economy and the resulting significant shortage of digital creators, the Group actively recruited local talent through its Sendai and Kitakyushu offices, creators eager to improve their skills from art and fine arts universities, colleges of technology and vocational schools specializing in Web creativity, and producers who graduated from universities and graduate schools. As a result, it hired a total of 173 graduate employees in April 2019, an increase of 13 from the previous year, including at regional offices.」

「During the cumulative third quarter, the number of employees in the Group increased by 186 to 1,005, while the number of temporary employees (average headcount) was 22. This was mainly due to hiring associated with business expansion.」

「In addition, anticipating the rapid future expansion of the digital economy and the resulting significant shortage of digital creators, the Group actively recruited local talent through its Sendai and Kitakyushu offices, creators eager to improve their skills from art and fine arts universities, colleges of technology and vocational schools specializing in Web creativity, and producers who graduated from universities and graduate schools. As a result, it hired a total of 160 graduate employees in April 2018, an increase of 22 from the previous year, including at regional offices.」

「In addition, anticipating the rapid future expansion of the digital economy and the resulting significant shortage of digital creators, the Group actively recruited local talent through its Sendai and Kitakyushu offices, creators eager to improve their skills from art and fine arts universities, colleges of technology and vocational schools specializing in Web creativity, and producers who graduated from universities and graduate schools. As a result, it hired a total of 160 graduate employees across the Group in April 2018, including at regional offices.」

「During the fiscal year, the Group hired 138 graduate employees in April 2017 in anticipation of the rapid future expansion of the digital economy and the resulting significant shortage of digital creators. In addition to recruiting local talent through its Sendai and Kitakyushu offices and creators eager to improve their skills from art and fine arts universities, colleges of technology, and vocational schools specializing in Web creativity, the Group actively recruited producers who graduated from universities and graduate schools. In its core EMC business, the number of digital creators increased to 525, up 24.4% year on year,」

「Recruiting and developing outstanding creators is important to the Group's business. In addition to recruitment at regional offices and graduate recruitment, the Group is focusing on rolling out its proprietary in-house training and education program, Members University. During the cumulative third quarter, in addition to hiring 138 graduate employees in April 2017, including at regional offices, subsequent mid-career recruitment and other measures increased the Group's employee count to 801 as of the end of December 2017, up 200 from the end of the previous fiscal year, and the total number of digital creators to 725, including 166 digital creators at regional offices.」

「In addition, to address the serious shortage of talent in the digital marketing market and achieve further business expansion, the Group is systematically securing outstanding Web talent through proactive graduate recruitment and training. As a result, it hired 138 graduate employees in April 2017, including at regional offices.」

「In addition, to address the serious shortage of talent in the digital marketing market and achieve further business expansion, the Group is systematically securing outstanding Web talent through proactive graduate recruitment and training. As a result, it hired 138 graduate employees in April 2017, including at regional offices.」

「In addition, to address the serious shortage of talent in the digital marketing market and achieve further business expansion, the Group is systematically securing outstanding Web talent through proactive graduate recruitment and training. As a result, it hired 95 graduate employees, including at regional offices, during the fiscal year.」

「During the cumulative third quarter, the number of employees in the Group increased by 214 to 580, while the number of temporary employees (average headcount) decreased by 74 to 4. This was mainly due to hiring associated with business expansion and the conversion of temporary employees to permanent employees.」

「During the cumulative second quarter, the number of employees in the Group increased by 196 to 562, while the number of temporary employees (average headcount) increased by 1 to 8. This was mainly due to hiring associated with business expansion and the conversion of temporary employees to permanent employees.」

「In addition, to address the severe shortage of talent in the Web marketing market and achieve further business expansion, our group is systematically pursuing the recruitment and training of talented new graduates, and hired 95 new graduates, including for regional offices, in April 2016.」

「Our group will focus on building a track record of delivering high-quality outsourced online business operations by establishing the EMC model, which comprehensively provides services for the rapidly expanding Web management work and engagement initiatives using social media in transactions with major high-quality corporate customers. We will earn the trust and satisfaction of corporate customers, secure and develop the human resources necessary for these efforts, and continue to invest actively in developing regional offices, securing personnel, recruiting global talent, and developing employees’ skills.」