Enhancing Human Capital

Strengthening our human resources is indispensable for sustainably enhancing our corporate value. Specifically, we must cultivate strong individual talent and establish a robust organizational foundation. Through the initiatives outlined below, we will pursue these goals, thereby continuously enhancing corporate value and seeking to realize our Purpose.

Personnel Plan

Due to the nature of its business, JAFCO’s growth is heavily dependent on investment professionals and other individual talent. For this reason, one of our major business challenges is how best to recruit and nurture talented individuals. Our personnel recruitment and development initiatives are implemented in line with personnel plans that are linked to management and business strategies aimed at sustainable corporate value enhancement.

Recruiting Diverse Investment Professionals

In terms of our investment professionals, in addition to the ongoing recruitment of new graduates, we continue to hire investment professionals with wide-ranging experience, skills, and potential.

Nurturing Our Own Investment Professionals

Through our well-established, proprietary development model for investment professionals, we will continue to develop strong individual talent that can execute excellent investment deals.

Recruitment, Retention, and Development of Professionals Across All Domains

The operating environment of JAFCO and its portfolio companies is undergoing massive change. Therefore, in addition to investment professionals, we focus on recruiting, developing, and retaining professionals in areas such as portfolio company support, fund management, and corporate affairs.

Evaluation, Treatment, and Succession

To recruit, develop, and retain strong talent with diverse backgrounds, it is imperative that we set up frameworks for employee evaluation and treatment as part of our personnel system. Taking into account market conditions, we regularly review these systems. In addition, we are creating succession plans to develop talent for the next generation.

Refining Organizational Capabilities and Building Frameworks for Enhancing Fund Performance

We must also refine our organizational capabilities and build frameworks for enhancing fund performance. We believe that creating frameworks for accumulating and sharing knowledge as an organization and advancing systems for operational efficiency not only facilitates individual growth but also enhances our sustainability as an organization.

Creating Environments That Enhance Employee Motivation and Ensure That Employees Can Work in Good Mental and Physical Health

It is also important to build work environments that maximize the individual capabilities of our diverse talent and ensure that they can continue to draw on these capabilities to the greatest extent possible. Thus, our key priorities are to establish structures and frameworks that enhance employee motivation and ensure that employees can continue to work in good mental and physical health, while also accommodating employees at each life stage.

Fostering and Instilling a Culture of Continuous Enhancement of Strengths

Fostering a corporate culture that embodies our Purpose, Mission, Values, and Identity is also essential to cultivating strong talent and establishing a robust organizational foundation. To ensure our diverse pool of talent from various backgrounds can work together to demonstrate a strong performance, we must foster and embed this shared internal culture.

Model for Developing New Graduates and Young Employees

Our development model for new graduates and young employees is one of our unique initiatives. Through many years of continuous new graduate recruitment, we have accumulated a wealth of experience.

In addition to structured training programs, each young employee is assigned an instructor who supports them until they are ready to work independently. Private equity investment work does not have a set formula and it covers a wide scope of activities. As such, the quickest path to growth for new employees is to receive rapid feedback on their day-to-day work. Also, employees who achieve independence go on to serve as instructors, passing on their knowledge to the next generation. This process not only deepens their own understanding of the work but also fosters further growth. In the challenging field of developing investment professionals, we aim to enhance reproducibility through initiatives centered on our instructor system and on-the-job training.

Human Resource Business Partner Function

We have established an HRBP (Human Resource Business Partner) function at our Investment Division to enhance recruitment, onboarding, and talent development.

As the environment surrounding venture investment continues to change rapidly, cultivating exceptional talent takes time. By leveraging the expertise of our HRBP in personnel development and working closely with our partners in the Investment Division, we aim to consistently produce high-quality professionals.

At JAFCO, we are actively recruiting new graduates, particularly for our Investment Division, as well as experienced professionals who can make an immediate contribution to the Company.

By bringing together personnel with diverse backgrounds who apply their expertise and unique strengths, we believe the organization as a whole will adapt effectively to changes in the environment and societal values, ultimately driving improved performance. In our approach to hiring new employees, we focus on not only their suitability for our business but also their level of commitment and how strongly they relate to our Identity and Purpose.