Hupro Inc

Hupro Inc (株式会社ヒュープロ) is a Japan-based recruitment and human resources company. It provides career advisory and consulting services, handles recruitment for professional and management/back-office departments, and develops recruitment-related platforms, serving both individual professionals and employer companies in Japan.

The company states that its initial focus is on changing hiring in the licensed-professional (士業) and corporate administration/management-department segment, with a stated longer-term intent to extend into additional business lines and to expand across Asia and internationally. Internally the organization is structured into sales (corporate sales, career advisors, consultants), a development department covering front-end and back-end engineering, product management and UI/UX and graphic design, a marketing department covering web marketing, editorial/content planning and user activation, and corporate functions including HR, accounting and finance, labor relations and legal.

Business model

Hupro operates recruitment and human resources services, combining career advisory and consulting for candidates with recruitment services for companies hiring into professional and management departments, and building recruitment-related platforms.

Traction

The recruiting site reports 95 employees, an average employee age of 26.5 years, and 300.1% growth between the fiscal year ended March 2022 and the irregular nine-month period ended December 2022. It also reports a 19% average annual pay-raise rate, a 22.6% rate of internal position changes within the first year of employment, and that 87.8% of employees joined without prior staffing-industry experience.