Building a Workforce of 10,000 Digital Creators

「The number of DCs at the end of the consolidated fiscal year was 2,456, down 171 from the end of the previous fiscal year. Although headcount declined as the organization shifted to a leaner structure for growth and optimized its workforce composition by restraining new graduate hiring, the overall utilization rate rose 6.6 percentage points year on year to 83.1%.」

「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.」

「To achieve the workforce of 10,000 set out in VISION2030, we have actively made upfront investments in recruitment, mainly of new graduates, targeting 25% growth in value-added revenue, a key performance indicator defined as revenue generated from internal resources after deducting outsourcing and purchases. During the consolidated fiscal year, we continued hiring new graduates at a rate exceeding the growth rate of value-added revenue.」

「The number of digital creators rose 24% from the end of the previous fiscal year to 2,012, while the utilisation rate declined.」

「Against the backdrop of digital-economy expansion and the shortage of IT talent, we have set a target growth rate of 25% under VISION2030. Although the consolidated number of digital creators, mainly new graduates, was sufficiently secured at 2,020, up 24.5% from the end of the previous fiscal year, utilisation declined because the sales structure of the core EMC business was dependent on existing customers, delaying the development of new customers, while the non-Web operations area among large EMC-business customers, identified as a growth area, was still under development.」

「Accordingly, we plan to continue our existing policy of aggressively expanding mid-career and new-graduate recruitment, our group's largest area of upfront investment, toward the group workforce of 10,000 set out in the new long-term vision, VISION2030.」

「To make a continued contribution to creating a sustainable society through the EMC business and the digital-creator staffing business, our group will expand recruitment of talented digital creators who are highly motivated to improve their skills and deeply identify with our mission, with the aim of building a group workforce of 10,000. At the same time as focusing on new-graduate recruitment, regional recruitment and the development of training programmes, we will create an environment in which the digital creators belonging to our group can work happily and will actively develop new businesses.」

「To achieve this goal, we will expand recruitment of talented digital creators who deeply identify with our group's mission and are highly motivated to improve their skills, with the aim of building a group workforce of 10,000. To this end, we will focus on new-graduate recruitment, regional recruitment and the development of training programmes,」

「To address the full-scale development of the digital economy and the severe shortage of digital creators, our group will actively recruit and develop talented new graduates and people from regional areas to secure the human resources needed to build a workforce of 10,000 digital creators in the future and achieve further business expansion.」