GAKUJO CO.,Ltd. (2301) Stock Price

Gakujō is a recruitment support company that serves second-career job seekers, people in their 20s and 30s looking to change jobs, and new graduates from universities and junior colleges. The company provides services including job posting and corporate PR placement, recruitment consulting, and staffing and temporary placement services. Gakujō operates three core business pillars: aggregate services for mid-career recruitment, aggregate services for new graduate recruitment, and customized individual services for new graduate recruitment.

The company's primary customers are corporations hiring young and mid-level talent, as well as public institutions such as local governments and government ministries, with recruitment managers as the main contacts. Revenue comes primarily from job posting fees, recruitment event booth fees, placement commissions, and fees from agent services and recruitment support contracts.

In the mid-career recruitment field, Gakujō supports job seeker and employer matching through services including "Re就活" for people in their 20s, "Re就活テック" for IT engineers, "Re就活30" for people in their 30s, job fairs, and agent services. In the new graduate field, the company creates connections through the student website "Re就活キャンパス" and job fairs. For customized services, it provides outsourced recruitment support tailored to each company's needs, including direct mail production and distribution, phone reception, and recruitment information management.

Based on its medium-term management plan (October 2024 – October 2026), the company aims to improve profitability, with a focus on operating income, and enhance corporate value. In the career recruitment sector particularly, the company has set a target of 30% annual sales growth, pursuing expansion through both workforce expansion and digital utilization. Specifically, the company plans to build a workforce of 500 employees by October 2026, while simultaneously advancing specialized talent recruitment and operational efficiency improvements.

The company has designated career recruitment as a priority investment area and is concentrating resources on enhancing brand awareness and brand strength of the "Re就活" series. Concrete measures include aggressive advertising investment to expand usage among both job seekers and employers, as well as implementing specialized sales processes to increase client retention rates and multi-service utilization. The company aims to differentiate itself from competitors by maintaining a strong presence in the young professional and mid-career segments.

The company is developing new services specialized in industries and job categories with growing demand to explore new markets. Building on existing services for IT engineers and professionals in their 30s, the company plans to expand its customer base—including public institutions such as municipalities and government agencies—through strengthened industry and job-specific matching, career fairs, and expanded recruitment outsourcing services. Through these initiatives, the company aims to achieve both social problem-solving through matching and revenue expansion.

The company is also investing in technological innovation to advance business digitalization and productivity improvements through data utilization. Specifically, the company will implement system improvements in customer and applicant management, and enhance matching accuracy through data analysis and automation of advertising effectiveness. Simultaneously, the company has designated personal information protection as a critical priority and will continue strengthening employee training, access controls, and log monitoring systems to ensure safe and trustworthy service delivery.