About Recruit
Founded in Tokyo in 1960, Recruit Group began by connecting university students and companies through job information, and built a business model that links individuals and businesses. It has since expanded from HR-related businesses into life-event and everyday-consumption domains, and more recently into SaaS-based support for small and mid-sized businesses.
From new grad to product manager — one route through Recruit, in the words of the person who took it. Watch on YouTube →
Our Vision
We envision a world where individuals and businesses can focus on what really matters. The more people are free to pursue their passions, the better our future becomes.
Our Values
Create new value that surprises the people we serve.
Respect the individual, and back the person who wants to take something on.
New business program
Ring is Recruit's internal new-business program, first launched in 1982. Employees across group companies can propose businesses beyond Recruit's existing domains.
Recruit Co., Ltd., FY2024. Figures do not cover the whole of Recruit Group.
Ring has helped turn employee ideas into businesses and services across education, weddings, HR, and more.
An online learning service offering video lessons and learning support for students and schools.
A bridal information service that helps couples explore wedding venues, products, and planning options.
A service connecting employers with former employees to support “comeback” hiring. Born from a Ring proposal and launched on a trial basis in 2022.
A program that has run for four decades keeps updating the way it supports new ideas.
An internal generative AI tool that helps employees refine early-stage business ideas anytime.
Working here
Recruit aims to create an environment where each person can work autonomously and flexibly. Alongside flexibility in how people work, Recruit provides opportunities and programs that support continued challenge and growth.
Flextime is available. For most roles, remote work does not require a specific reason or fixed number of days, and employees can choose among home, office, and other approved work locations depending on their work and team.
140 company holidays plus five designated paid-leave days. The Anniversary Allowance goes to employees with at least one year of service as of April 1 who take four or more consecutive paid-leave days; STEP Leave comes once every three years of service, counted in calendar days and subject to applicable conditions.
Through Will-Can-Must, employees periodically align their aspirations, strengths, and next challenges with their manager and current mission. Career Web carries internal openings; a move takes place when the employee and hiring team agree on the match following the selection process.
Onboarding and development vary by role, and details are provided on each course page. The published example for new-graduate engineers covers five areas — frontend, databases, infrastructure, data analysis, and security — alongside internal study sessions and events on technology and product development.
There is no single way to work at Recruit. Here are a few examples of how people combine their roles with learning, outside experiences, and responsibilities beyond work.
A Recruit data scientist pursued a doctoral program while continuing to work on real business problems. Through joint research with a university, academic study and day-to-day analysis informed each other.
A Recruit employee used time outside work to prepare for graduate school and continued studying psychology alongside her job. She describes the learning as broadening how she thinks and positively influencing her work.
A Recruit product manager also works with a smaller venture company on product improvement and data utilization. Moving between different scales and team environments brings new perspectives back to his product work.
A Recruit product manager also works as a graphic designer outside the company with approval. Experiencing both the person requesting work and the person creating it deepened how she collaborates with designers and engineers in her main role.
After maternity and parental leave, a Recruit employee returned to work and now leads a data team while raising a child. She describes shaping her work around family circumstances while continuing to take on demanding professional challenges.
Each example describes one person's situation at the time of publication, not a guaranteed arrangement. Side work requires prior approval.
Scale
¥3.697T
Annual revenue
45,586
Group employees
60+
Countries & regions served by the HR Technology marketplace
3
Strategic Business Units
218
Subsidiaries, plus 6 affiliates
See the full figures on Recruit Holdings Investor Relations →
Revenue for FY2025 (April 1, 2025 – March 31, 2026). Employee and group-company counts as of March 31, 2026. 60+ countries and regions refers to the reach of the HR Technology marketplace, not the number of group locations.
Businesses & brands
Recruit Group operates three strategic business units, each applying matching technology and data to connect millions of people and businesses across different markets.
Through brands including Indeed and Glassdoor, HR Technology operates a global two-sided marketplace connecting job seekers and employers in 60+ countries and regions.
Comprehensive staffing services across Europe, the US, Japan, Australia, and other Asia-Pacific markets.
Matching platforms across housing & real estate, beauty, travel, dining and more, plus cloud-based SaaS solutions that support business operations.
History
1960s
Started by opening up the job market. Recruit Group began in 1960 and launched a recruitment information publication for university students.
Digital shift
Moved from print to digital, then mobile, as information services evolved.
2012 / 2018
Expanded global HR technology through Indeed (2012) and Glassdoor (2018).
2013 onward
Expanded from matching into SaaS, beginning with AirREGI and a growing suite of tools supporting business operations.
2015 onward
Established Recruit Institute of Technology (now Megagon Labs) to advance research in AI, machine learning, sensors, and emerging technologies.
Today
Reimagining hiring with AI. Recruit Group is embedding AI and machine learning into real hiring products and workflows — from matching and sourcing to screening and outreach — in support of the “Simplify Hiring” strategy.
Read how AI is driving hiring outcomes →Research & Technology
Across Recruit Group, researchers, engineers, and data scientists work on AI and data from multiple angles — from research to technologies used in products and real business environments.
Research and applied technology spans dedicated research organizations and product / data science teams across the group.
