Challenges in Securing and Developing Highly Skilled Personnel
First written in FY2021. 8 of 15 entries say "Worsened", first in FY2024-Q1. Latest entry: 2026-10-14.
The whole theme swung hardest in 2026: 34 of 109 companies on the "Worse" side.
- FY2025WorsenedAnnual report
「However, as the population continues to age and decline, competition for talent across industries and business sectors is intensifying, and the shortage of highly skilled IT personnel is becoming more severe.」
The disclosure states that the shortage of highly skilled IT personnel and intensifying competition for talent have become more severe than previously recognized. It also outlines recruitment investment and hiring initiatives focused on priority areas for FY2026. - FY2025-H1RestatedAnnual report
「Demand for the use of generative AI has recently strengthened rapidly, particularly, but IT and digital talent remains in short supply and recruitment conditions remain challenging.」
The disclosure states that demand for generative AI is strengthening while the shortage of IT and digital talent and challenging recruitment conditions persist. - FY2024WorsenedAnnual report
「IT and digital talent remain in short supply, and the supply-demand gap is widening. As a result, development fees in the IT industry trended upward, while recruitment conditions became increasingly challenging.」
The shortage of IT and digital talent and the widening supply-demand gap continued, with development fees rising as recruitment conditions became increasingly challenging. - FY2024-Q3WorsenedAnnual report
「IT and digital talent remain in short supply. Against a backdrop of a widening supply-demand gap and rising wages, development fees for system software are trending upward, while recruitment conditions remain challenging.」
Recruitment conditions remain challenging amid the continuing shortage of IT and digital talent, a widening supply-demand gap and rising wages, making the risk of failing to secure personnel more apparent. - FY2024-Q2WorsenedAnnual report
「For mid-career recruitment, the company has been revising job descriptions in each business division, seeking to increase the number of applicants and prevent mismatches after joining. However, recruitment in the target segments remained difficult. Ahead of the second half of the fiscal year, the company is identifying issues and reconsidering its future recruitment policy.」
Although the company is revising recruitment conditions and taking other measures, mid-career recruitment in the target segments has become difficult, making the risk of failing to secure personnel more apparent and severe. - FY2024-Q1WorsenedAnnual report
「IT and digital talent remain in short supply. Against a backdrop of a widening supply-demand gap and rising wages, development fees for system software are trending upward, while recruitment conditions remain challenging.」
The company identifies the shortage of IT and digital talent, the widening supply-demand gap, rising wages and challenging recruitment conditions as external factors. - FY2023RestatedAnnual report
「Securing and developing talented personnel will be essential for the Group to further expand its business and provide higher-value-added services.」
The company continues to identify securing and developing personnel needed for business expansion and higher value-added services as a risk with a medium likelihood of occurrence and a high impact. - FY2023-Q2MitigatedAnnual report
「For mid-career recruitment, the company conducted direct-recruiting outreach and strengthened cooperation with existing agencies, enabling it to secure several people amid intensifying competition for IT talent.」
Strengthened recruitment methods enabled the company to secure several mid-career hires, advancing efforts to address the insufficient recruitment and development of highly skilled DX personnel. - FY2023-Q1MitigatedAnnual report
「The company is also making steady progress in strengthening its pool of personnel with DX certifications so that it can handle large-scale projects, and expects sales to continue expanding.」
The company is making steady progress in strengthening its workforce of employees with DX qualifications to support large-scale projects, addressing the risk of insufficient recruitment and development of personnel. - FY2022-Q3MitigatedAnnual report
「Applications for mid-career positions were more than double the previous fiscal year, enabling the company to secure several promising employees.」
The company disclosed progress in addressing the recruitment of highly skilled personnel through an increase in applications and the hiring of several people. - FY2021First statedAnnual report
「If the recruitment and development of personnel do not progress as anticipated by the Group, the Group's business and performance may be affected.」
The company identifies securing and developing engineers, technical sales personnel and project managers as key risks to business expansion.