Climate Change Data

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Climate Impact & Sustainability Data (2023-03, 2023-03 to 2025-03, 2024-03 to 2026-03)

Reporting Period: 2023-03

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Career Education
  • Labor Market Issues in Japan

Social Achievements

  • Operates a career education platform for university students to help them design their careers and contribute to solving social issues related to career education in Japan.
  • Aims to increase the number of thriving new employees through OfferBox to improve labor productivity and contribute to economic growth in Japan.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Realize Vision 2030: A platform enabling everyone to take actions to maximize their lifelong career potential.
Medium-term Goals:
  • Achieve ¥74.8 billion in consolidated revenue by March 2025
  • Achieve ¥104.8 billion in consolidated revenue by March 2026
Short-term Goals:
  • Achieve 20,000 OfferBox placements by 2027

Environmental Challenges

  • Success-based revenue from OfferBox was stagnant due to early career activities of students.
  • PaceBox launch was delayed due to release delays and business operation setup delays.
  • Overall sales fell short of expectations.
  • Increased costs due to M&A and other unexpected expenses.
  • Mid-career business launch was delayed due to organizational issues.
  • Mismatch between job postings and applicant pools in the mid-career business.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Focused on increasing sales of early fixed-price OfferBox plans to recover from the shortfall.
  • Concentrated management resources to improve investment efficiency.
  • Limited investment in PaceBox to what is necessary for platform establishment and aimed for early launch.
  • Refined investment risk by reviewing development methods for new business development.
  • Narrowed down the applicant pool and concentrated resources to address the mismatch between job postings and applicants in the mid-career business.
  • Expanded sources of applicant inflow and strengthened the organizational structure to resolve organizational issues.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

The company's initiatives contribute to SDG 8 by addressing labor market challenges in Japan and promoting career development.

Reporting Period: 2023-03 to 2025-03

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • 働きがいと経済成長の両立

Social Achievements

  • フリーロケーション制度、スーパーフレックス制度、ニューノーマル支援金、ワクトレ(ibook、研修費補助制度)の導入による多様な働き方の実現

Governance Achievements

  • コーポレートガバナンスの強化、株式報酬の導入

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Vision2030:生涯のキャリア・ポテンシャルを最大化するためのアクションをあらゆる人が実行できる、プラットフォームを実現する。
Medium-term Goals:
  • 2025年3月期連結売上高97.2億円、連結営業利益19.8億円(営業利益率20.3%)
Short-term Goals:
  • 2026年卒で2万人の採用決定人数

Environmental Challenges

  • 日本の労働人口減少、事業の寿命と働く期間の逆転、人生100年時代のキャリア形成、労働生産性の低さ、経済成長率の低迷、新卒市場における企業と学生間の情報の非対称性、転職市場における構造的課題
Mitigation Strategies
  • OfferBoxによる新卒採用ミスマッチ解消、HRtech×People Analytics領域における新規事業投資、エコシステム構築に向けたM&A、PaceBoxによる若手向け転職サービスの提供、適性検査eF-1Gによる採用効率化、定着率向上、従業員への投資によるエンゲージメント向上、コーポレートガバナンス強化

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • 8

一人ひとりが持つキャリア・ポテンシャルを引き出すことで、働きがいと経済成長の両立に貢献する。

Reporting Period: 2024-03 to 2026-03

Environmental Metrics

ESG Focus Areas

  • Career Education
  • Workforce Development
  • Social Impact

Social Achievements

  • Operates a career education platform for university students to help them design their careers.
  • Partners with various companies to provide career education content.

Climate Goals & Targets

Long-term Goals:
  • Realize Vision 2030: Create a platform where everyone can take actions to maximize their career potential throughout their lives.
Medium-term Goals:
  • Achieve profitability in the mid-career business by FY2025.
Short-term Goals:
  • Improve matching efficiency in the new graduate business to achieve 20,000 placements by 2027.

Environmental Challenges

  • Delayed launch of mid-career business due to release delays and organizational challenges.
  • Synergy creation challenges.
  • High costs associated with the job cafe business.
Mitigation Strategies
  • Refocusing on target customer segments to improve matching efficiency in the mid-career business.
  • Strengthening organizational structure to address challenges.
  • Improving matching efficiency in the new graduate business through functional improvements and data utilization.

Supply Chain Management

Climate-Related Risks & Opportunities

UN Sustainable Development Goals

  • SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth

The company's career education initiatives contribute to SDG 8 by promoting decent work and economic growth through workforce development and improved career opportunities.