Full-Time Position (2027/2028 Start): Human Resources (Entry-Level)

You will start your career at the front lines of recruiting, HRBP, and similar roles at Recruit Holdings or one of its operating companies, then gain experience in HR strategy, HR operations, and other departments.

At Recruit, which upholds "Bet on Passion" (respect for the individual), you will be involved in the core work of maximizing the potential of people and organizations.

In the future, we expect you to lead areas such as formulating recruiting and HR strategy in Japan and globally, organizational development and HR system design across the group, reforming HR operations infrastructure using AI and IT, and supporting management and businesses as an HRBP who drives business growth. Regardless of years of experience, you will have opportunities from early on to take a proactive, central role in high-impact projects. The experience of talking with diverse stakeholders across the organization and leading organizational change while overcoming conflict can lead to significant growth as an HR and management professional.

• Recruiting (new graduate and mid-career) / Talent management
• HRBP (Human Resources Business Partner)
• HR strategy and system design / Organizational development (OD)
• HR operations / HR tech and AI promotion

• Recruiting and talent management: Discover and attract diverse talent who will lead the group's future, and plan and run next-generation leader development programs
• HRBP: Stay alongside business organizations of several hundred to several thousand people, designing organizational structures linked to business strategy, staffing, and promoting leadership development
• HR strategy and system design: Plan and revise evaluation, compensation, and grade systems for the entire global group (revenue of about JPY 3.7 trillion in FY2025) or for domestic businesses
• Global HR: Collaborate with overseas group companies, including Indeed in the U.S. and in Europe, and build global HR platforms and policies
• HR tech / AI-driven business reform: Advance HR data using generative AI and agentic AI, and carry out fundamental reform of recruiting, evaluation, and labor operations

Regardless of age or year of joining, if you keep creating impact on the organization and business, there are cases of people being appointed manager or global project leader in their twenties.

Recruiting → Strategy & Global (example)

Year 1: Assigned to the New Graduate Recruiting department. Planned tactics for building the applicant pool in Japan, and handled operational improvement agendas in the HR Tech department.

Year 2: Assigned to the recruiting strategy team, overseeing overall recruiting strategy, headcount, initiatives, and budget. Also served on the Global Recruiting Team.

Year 3: Managed promotion strategy for the Global Recruiting Team. Led, in discussion with management, changes to the organizational structure for global business expansion and the recruiting of next-generation leaders.

Year 4: Launched an internship program and a global hackathon aimed at recruiting and developing next-generation leaders, in collaboration with Indeed in the U.S. Involving Indeed's HR department and executives, took full responsibility for global recruiting strategy, from planning to execution, across Japan and the U.S. Also worked on a project to consider introducing a new selection process for the AI era.

Recruiting → HRBP → HR PdM → Strategy & Global (example)

Year 1: Assigned to the New Graduate Recruiting department. Handled running company information sessions and planning tactics for building the applicant pool in Japan. Through conversations with about 100 candidates a month, learned the essence of candidate evaluation.

Year 2: Assigned as HRBP for the HR business. As a partner to the business head, designed and executed an HR strategy working backward from business goals (workforce planning → recruiting → development → placement → turnover). Promoted to manager in Year 6; in a merger of multiple operating companies, worked with the executive board to oversee the integration of different HR systems.

Year 8: Launched a product management organization for HR functions. After building a data foundation, led the transformation of HR functions, including AI-powered support for transfers and placement and more advanced talent development processes, and received a company-wide award.

Year 11: Integrating experience in recruiting, HRBP, and PdM, appointed department head overseeing new graduate recruiting strategy. Responsible end to end, from identifying and developing future executive candidates to creating succession plans.

• Want to aim for HR that goes out to the front lines and engages thoroughly with them, rather than armchair management discussion and strategy
• Want to persistently produce results that directly connect to the growth of management and the business, as an HR professional
• Want to gain major growth experience from your twenties, with discretion, by engaging with a wide variety of stakeholders and leading organizational change and consensus building

• People who can ask essential questions about people and organizational issues, and lead to insight and solutions in a structured, logical way
• People who embrace diversity and can persistently involve others without fearing complex consensus building or conflict
• People who are highly sensitive to change and want to evolve the organization by actively adopting technology and new methods rather than being bound by existing frameworks

If you are interested in multiple positions or are unsure which course to choose, you can select multiple courses in the application form. You are also welcome to discuss which position suits you best during the selection process.

Based on your preferences and aptitude as discussed during the selection process, we may suggest a course or position different from the one you selected in the form.

Tuesday, November 24, 2026, 13:00 JST (Japan Standard Time, UTC+9)

(= Monday, November 23, 2026, 20:00 PST / 23:00 EST)

Information on the selection steps will be sent to those who have completed their entry.

By collaborating with internal and external specialists to drive our business forward, we have high expectations for talented individuals who will become the driving force in continuously creating innovative services worldwide.

We look forward to receiving your applications.

• Degree-seeking students enrolled at universities outside Japan
• Applicants who meet the following:

• Insight and negotiation skills in joint projects and negotiations with diverse stakeholders
• Logical thinking and structuring ability to structure HR issues, estimate the impact of initiatives, and make data-based proposals to management and the business
• Comfortable working in both English and Japanese (business-level English communication)

• Majors or interest in human resource management, organizational behavior, business administration, psychology, labor economics, or industrial and organizational psychology (I/O Psychology)
• Experience in data analysis and People Analytics using Python, R, SQL, Tableau, etc.
• Knowledge and experience of research methods such as survey design, qualitative interview analysis, and organizational diagnostics
• Experience designing HR business processes and automating work using agentic AI tools such as Claude Code
• Practical internship experience in HR (recruiting, training, HRBP, system design, etc.) or organizational consulting
• Experience leading recruiting activities, organization launches, or community management at startups or student organizations

Tokyo (possibility of working in other areas, including overseas, in the future)

After joining Recruit Holdings Co., Ltd., you will, in principle, be assigned to one of the following Recruit Group companies:

Recruit Co., Ltd. / Indeed Recruit Partners Co., Ltd. / Indeed Recruit Technologies Co., Ltd. / Indeed Japan K.K.

The standard working time is 8 hours per day, but employees have autonomy and discretion over their daily working hours and start and end times.

• Monthly salary: JPY 387,500 and up (base salary: JPY 300,000 + grade allowance: JPY 87,500) + bonus
• Example annual income: JPY 5,700,000 and up
  • The grade allowance (JPY 87,500) corresponds to 35 hours of overtime pay per month
  • Premium pay (late-night work allowance, holiday work allowance, overtime allowance, and additional premium allowance) is paid in accordance with the "Employee Salary Regulations"

• Revision of monthly salary: twice a year (April and October)
  • Base salary and grade allowance are determined by Mission Grade and, in principle, revised in April and October (Mission Grades may go up or down).
• Bonus: twice a year (June and December)
  • In the first year, a bonus is paid only once, six months after joining.
  • Bonus amounts may vary depending on company performance.
• Initial Mission Grade: determined and presented during the interview process according to each individual's skills and experience
  • The Mission Grade is a system under which a grade is set every six months according to the value of the role (expected results) an individual takes on. A distinctive feature of Recruit is that grades are set based on the results expected of the role, with high expectations built in, rather than on an assessment of an individual's current ability. Because grades are determined by expected results, regardless of years of service or experience, individuals who take on high-value roles are given high Mission Grades, allowing them to take on challenges beyond their current limits.

For details: Talent Development & Growth Support | Recruit Co., Ltd.

https://www.recruit.co.jp/people/career/

15 days are granted in the first year (of which 5 days are designated days off).

Thereafter, days are granted each year according to length of service (maximum 25 days).

By allowing employees to choose their own working days, we make it easier to balance work and personal life. In addition to national holidays and paid leave, we have increased the number of annual days off that employees can schedule themselves, for a total of 145 days. This averages 2.8 days off per week over the year.

(Details: https://www.recruit.co.jp/people/workstyle/)

To encourage the use of annual paid leave, employees with at least one year of service who take four or more consecutive days of paid leave receive an allowance of JPY 50,000 per fiscal year.

A paid long-term leave of up to 28 consecutive days, available to any employee with at least three years of service after completing the probationary period.

It can be taken again every three years thereafter.

Special leave for family events (marriage, bereavement) / relocation leave / F Leave (menstrual leave) / maternity leave (before and after childbirth) / work-related injury leave / leave to care for a sick child / family care leave / lay judge duty leave / adjustment leave after overseas business trips

1. Entry: submit the application form
2. Document screening
3. Interviews (multiple rounds) + coding test
   • Details will be provided only to candidates who pass the document screening.
   • We plan on roughly 3–4 interviews. However, depending on each candidate's circumstances, we may ask for additional interview time to deepen mutual understanding.

Details will be provided to those who have completed their entry.