What to Know and How to Apply for BizReach: A Game-Changing HR and Tech Company in Japan
Are you interested in Human Resource Management, Information Technology, or Design? If so, perhaps you would want to know more about BizReach, the leading company in employment agencies in Japan that continues to thrive through the power of technologies and skilled talents from different parts of the world.
Author: Saki Arimoto│ Published date: 21st January 2020
About BizReach
BizReach is a company that offers different services to job-seekers and companies in the form of websites and applications. It has made countless appearances on the media, discussing their innovation of promising services in the industry of human resources, and through their activities that engage international students. With its success, it has stayed in the market for a decade already.
Established in 2009, Soichiro Minami founded BizReach Co. Ltd. with the motivation to offer help to people looking for jobs through the use of the Internet.
As stated on their site, the company’s mission is
“To expand the options and possibilities in the world with the power of the Internet.”
Companies used to face difficulties in hiring highly skilled people and resorted to recruitment agencies. BizReach addresses this issue by creating a membership-based website where companies and job seekers can meet and match, among others.
The company launched the first ever job seeker-based website targeted to managers and global human resource managers. It now offers a wide variety of services and products to achieve its main goal, and some of them are listed below:
BizReach
A career-networking platform where companies and highly skilled people can connect online.
HRMOS
Pronounced harmos, it is another platform in collecting data about hiring processes, benefits, reviews and other significant information in recruiting. It makes easier for people who look for these through visualizing them in a clear and concise manner.
Calitore
Another product of the company, Calitore is a job search engine focused on job seekers in their 20s.
A complete list of services can be accessed here. Currently, the company has one subsidiary, Stanby, whose operations similarly focus on becoming the intersection between job seekers and companies through a job search engine. It was recently announced that there will be a new subsidiary which will be named Vision Incubation to reorganize the structure of BizReach.
In addition, BizReach will also be a subsidiary under a new company, Visional Company. For more details on this company shift, click here.
Investor Relations Information
In just over 10 years, BizReach has grown to a company made up of more than 1,300 highly skilled people, and 25 of them being the newly hired fresh graduates last year. The same people have contributed to its success in providing services to more than 9,100 companies.
Moreover, the company supports its employees in different spectacular ways. 40% of its employees transferred to other career paths, and the company is in full support in their decision with their system called “Hands Up!” where employees who desire to independently select another career within the company are allowed to do so. This encourages growth not only for the company, but also for its individuals.
The chart above shows that the average age of employees is 30.3 years old, and 33% of their employees are female while 67% are male.
The chart above displays the distribution of BizReach employees in each position. Consultants come in first at 48.3%, with engineers and designers coming in second at 25%, and with 13.9% falling under "others" (planning/assistant jobs).
BizReach boasts of diverse human resources. More than 30% of its employees are female despite the IT industry is said to be dominated by men. It also has a wide spectrum of job types, including consulting, customer service, marketing, human resource management, engineering, design and others.
Altogether, its success is reflected in its significant growth in sales. In 2019, its sales growth rate is reported to be at 37%. These sets of data undoubtedly exhibits great potential in the future.
Message from BizReach's CEO
The man behind the company's success is Soichiro Minami, the founder and current CEO of BizReach. Before the company’s establishment, he experienced the same struggles as most companies did when he was in the process of gathering his management team. There was no online platform that could have simplified this process so he had to resort to recruitment agencies.
Minami expressed emphasis on how important this part was as they were the building blocks to creating a successful company.
From this experience, the company also strives to provide founders of young companies and start-up companies services to simplify the recruitment processes and optimize resources which altogether lead to growth. This is just one example among countless ways the company makes a social contribution that is very unique to BizReach. (Photo source)
While the company has yet to open branches overseas, BizReach has hired a number of talents from different parts of the world and organized an event to gather international students across the globe, creating a very international business environment.
BizReach Employment Information
Want to be a part of BizReach?
BizReach hires 39 fresh graduates on average annually, and currently has a number of positions open to fresh graduates. The company offers 3 different fields of work, namely business, design and engineering. Also available to job-hunting portals such as MyNavi and RikuNavi, important information to those who are interested in applying are listed below:
In alignment with the mission of BizReach, the company is looking for proactive people who can make a difference by tackling social issues and making an impact in the endlessly changing markets and economies.
How to apply to BizReach
Business Jobs in Japan
The job positions include different fields of business: marketing, sales, human resource management, etc. For 2020 graduates, the schedule of events applicants are required to attend to is listed here.
- [For 2020 graduates] Click here to apply for entry sheets.
- [For 2021 graduates] Click here to apply for entry sheets.
Designer Jobs in Japan
This category requires skills in design production and may involve working with software like Photoshop, Illustrator, and the like. The job positions include graphic designers, experienced designers and designers. Click here to apply.
Engineering Jobs in Japan
This category revolves around decision-making using the power of technology. The job positions include machine learning engineers, QA engineers, and software engineers. Click here to apply.
As there is no specific deadline for these applications, it is highly recommended to apply as early as possible as entry will close when the company has reached its quota for entries. For a complete list of available job positions, you can access it here.
Last August, BizReach offered a five-day internship program to graduating in 2020 and 2021. They were tasked to create a blueprint that addresses issues existing in the actual business setting. Supported by advisors and mentors, participants were grouped by teams.
While BizReach has yet to offer internship programs this year, you can stay updated by checking this webpage. In the meantime, you may read about past participants’ experiences with their internship in BizReach here.
Other Resources
As BizReach specializes in recruitment, the company has provided helpful information ranging from current employees’ interviews and recruiting events to description of the BizReach culture and blogs discussing their current activities for those who are interested in joining the game-changing company. Click here to know more.
Now you have everything you need to know to apply for BizReach. And if you haven't considered it before, this Japanese company is definitely worth giving a try. Remember that just like BizReach, despite some companies not being popular, as a foreigner you still have so many options for jobs you might not have known about before.
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