What Shukatsu Kaigi does

Shukatsu Kaigi (就活会議株式会社) operates Japan's largest review and recruitment platform targeting new-graduate job hunters. The platform aggregates company reviews, ES (entry sheet) submissions, and interview experience reports from students, with cumulative metrics of 1,148,547 ES/interview records, 342,207+ pass-through ES records, and 145,461 registered companies. The company reports that 1 in 2 Japanese job-hunting students use the platform and that more than 200,000 students register annually. Core products include the flagship Shukatsu Kaigi review site, a free job-posting tier (0円求人), a performance-based recruiting service (350,000 yen per hire), a database promotion service (300,000 yen per month) that delivers 21,000+ monthly student registrations, a 1,200,000 yen annual recruiting package, and a B2B candidate delivery service.

The business monetizes through a tiered B2B model. Companies begin on the free posting tier (1,321 cumulative contracts), then convert into paid services for targeted candidate sourcing and outcome-based hiring. The candidate database is also monetized through subscription marketing access and via integration with Indeed for job distribution. In 2024 the company launched Shukatsu Kaigi AI (QA Lab), a natural-language Q&A feature that lets students query the accumulated ES and interview corpus. The platform covers all eight regions of Japan with no international expansion.

Shukatsu Kaigi is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Port Inc. (TSE: 7047), a Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed group that operates approximately 10 employment-media subsidiaries. The company is headquartered at Shinjuku Front Tower in Tokyo and is led by Representative Director Yuta Akajiro (赤塩 勇太). Stand-alone financial metrics are not publicly disclosed; revenue, headcount, and growth are reported through the parent group.

Name

Shukatsu Kaigi

Legal name

就活会議株式会社

Website

https://syukatsu-kaigi.jp

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Shukatsu Kaigi operates Japan's largest new-graduate job-hunting review and recruiting platform, aggregating company reviews, ES submissions, and interview reports used by 1 in 2 Japanese job-hunting students, and monetizes via free postings, performance-based recruiting, database subscriptions, and an AI Q&A feature.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Job Recruitment Platform

NAICS

Employment Placement Agencies and Executive Search Services (56131), Employment Placement Agencies (561311)

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Talent Acquisition (Recruiting) & Applicant Tracking (ATS) (BPACAPAD)

Keywords

• Job hunting reviews
• New graduate recruiting
• Company employee reviews
• Entry sheet database
• Recruitment marketplace

Headquarters

HQ city

Tokyo

HQ country

Japan

HQ region

Asia

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Free Job Posting (0円求人): Companies can post jobs and manage applications completely free of charge. Basic features include company page creation and applicant management at no cost.
2. Performance-Based Recruiting (成果報酬型): Companies pay 350,000 yen per successful hire (per person). This is the primary revenue stream for the recruiting service with no upfront or listing fees.
3. Promotion Package (プロモーション): Initial fee of 1,200,000 yen per graduate year for annual coverage with extended placement periods up to 2 years and early cohort outreach.
4. Database Promotion Service (送客支援サービス): B2B service helping companies acquire job-hunting students for their services. Starting at 300,000 yen/month with performance-based pricing for results achieved.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Shukatsu Kaigi operates an online job-hunting platform that aggregates employee reviews, entry sheet (ES) examples, interview experience reports, and real-time selection status updates for new graduate job-seekers in Japan. Around this content platform, it sells four commercial offerings to employers: free job posting with search engine syndication, performance-based recruiting at ¥350,000 per hire, multi-year promotion packages at ¥1,200,000 per graduation year, and a database promotion service starting at ¥300,000/month for new-graduate service providers. An AI-powered Q&A feature retrieves synthesized answers from the proprietary review and ES database.

Product overview

就活会議 (Shukatsu Kaigi) is a student job-hunting (就職活動) platform operated by 就活会議株式会社, a group company of port Inc. (listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange and Fukuoka Stock Exchange). The platform is built as a multi-product ecosystem comprising the core review and information site (就活会議), a free employer job posting service (0円求人), a paid results-based recruitment service (リクルーティング), a B2B referral/traffic service for corporate clients (送客支援サービス), and an Indeed-powered internship discovery portal (就活会議Jobs). The products share a unified student database of over 200,000 registered users and leverage accumulated student behavioral data (application histories, company research activity) to power both consumer-facing features (company reviews, QA labs) and employer-facing recruitment tools. The platform's AI capability is limited to a text-based knowledge retrieval Q&A tool (就活会議QAラボ).

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Shukatsu Kaigi (就活会議) main platform Core review and job-hunting information platform for new graduates, providing company reviews from current and former employees, entry sheet (ES) examples, interview experience reports, and real-time selection status updates. Free for university, junior college, vocational, and technical college students to research employers and prepare for hiring processes.

Quantifiable outcome

• 1 in 2 job-hunting students use Shukatsu Kaigi
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers7 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration3 records

AI capability2 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• IndeedcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerJobs portal (jobs.syukatsu-kaigi.jp) operates in partnership with Indeed. Job listings are automatically distributed to Indeed, Google Jobs, and Yahoo Jobs through this integration, expanding reach to job seekers across major search platforms.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• OpenWork (Vorkers): Employee review platform operated by WORKPORT/Culture Builders. The most comparable content-driven review platform, though it skews toward working professionals rather than new graduates; competes with Shukatsu Kaigi for employer branding budgets and corporate review-mindshare.
• OneCareer (ワンキャリア): Japan's leading direct competitor in the new-graduate job-hunting content and event space, offering company information, internship listings, ES/interview experience sharing, and selection status updates. Closely comparable audience (就活生), product mix (review/ES library + corporate services), and Japanese-language content moat.

Broad incumbents

• Bizreach: Premium mid-career recruitment platform operated by BizReach. Differentiated by experienced-hire focus, but shares the B2B recruitment SaaS/agency model with Shukatsu Kaigi's enterprise services and competes for HR-tech wallet share in Japan.
• Mynavi (マイナビ): One of Japan's largest recruitment media conglomerates, offering new-grad job boards (マイナビ新卒), agent services, and HR media. Competes for the same corporate recruiting budgets as Shukatsu Kaigi's paid performance and promotion packages.
• Indeed Japan (Recruit): Global jobs aggregator owned by Recruit, which auto-distributes Shukatsu Kaigi's job listings through integration. Competes as a job-discovery destination but complementary rather than purely substitutional given Shukatsu Kaigi's review/ES depth.
• Rikunabi (リクナビ): The dominant Japanese new-graduate job board operated by Recruit, reaching the broadest base of employers and students via campus recruiting and media partnerships. Overlaps significantly in new-grad employer services and ES/interview content, but at much larger scale and with a broader portfolio beyond reviews.
• Glassdoor Japan (Indeed/Recruit): Global employee-review platform (now under Indeed/Recruit), directly competing for company-review traffic and salary transparency demand. Part of the same parent as Indeed, creating a multi-tier competitive overlap with Shukatsu Kaigi's review library.
• en (エン・ジャパン): Japanese HR media company operating job boards (エン転職), recruitment agency services (AMS), and HR tech (人事のミシュラン). Competes for employer recruiting budgets across mid-career and new-grad segments.
• Wantedly: Japan-focused recruitment platform combining job listings with employer branding through employee stories. Mid-career-leaning but expanding into new-grad, directly overlapping Shukatsu Kaigi's employer branding and review-driven positioning.

Emerging players

• OfferBox (オファーボックス): Reverse-recruitment platform for Japanese new graduates where companies send offers/scouts to students based on profile data. Overlaps in employer→student targeting and shares the new-grad funnel with Shukatsu Kaigi.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xtwitter.com/syukatsukaigi
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@shukatsu_kaigi

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Subsidiaries10 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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