Neo Career Co., Ltd.
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Japanese human-resources services group offering recruitment support, job-seeker placement and business outsourcing in Japan and Asia.
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Company profile
researched Aug 2026Neo Career Co., Ltd. (ζ ͺεΌδΌη€Ύγγͺγγ£γͺγ’, NEO CAREER CO., LTD.) is a Tokyo-based human resources services company headquartered in the Shinjuku Sanei Building, 1-22-2 Nishi-Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo. Established on 15 November 2000 with capital of JPY 100,000,000, it is an unlisted company led by President and CEO Ryoichi Nishizawa, with Yasunari Obitsu as Director and COO and Takahisa Nara, a former Sumitomo Mitsui banker who joined in 2022, as Director and CFO.
The group organises its activities into three areas: recruitment support (new graduate, mid-career and part-time hiring, plus specialist fields such as nursing care, childcare and engineering, delivered through services including the "Minna no Saiyobu" agency series, the "Bee" job database and the "Nice! Kaigo" caregiver service), employment support for students and job seekers (media and agency services such as unistyle, Shushoku Agent neo, Rikei Shushoku Agent neo, Daini Shinsotsu Agent neo and the childcare job site Hoiku Fine!), and business support/outsourcing (including the NeoShare sales outsourcing and inside-sales/telemarketing services, facility operations and HR Tech-based recruitment operations support). Company materials describe roughly 30 businesses spanning recruitment consulting, media operation, staffing and dispatch.
Subsidiaries and group companies include Axas Inc. (engineering and technical support services), digsy Inc. (a special-purpose subsidiary for employment of people with disabilities, established July 2023), Furusato Kaitaku Lab, Inc., Neo Construction and OA Soken. The company states a purpose of "engaging sincerely with people to open up the future" and a vision it terms "renpo keiei" (mountain-range management).
Founding story
Neo Career was founded on 15 November 2000 in Tokyo. Ryoichi Nishizawa, born in Hokkaido in February 1978, joined an investment company as a new graduate in 2000 and in November of that year co-founded Neo Career, becoming a director; he was appointed President and CEO in 2002. The company began with mid-career recruitment support and job advertising, adding mid-career placement and engineer dispatch in 2001.
Business model
Neo Career sells recruitment and staffing services to employers β job advertising agency work, recruitment consulting, paid employment placement and temporary staffing under licence (Temporary Staffing Agency Licence HA-13-070366; fee-charging employment placement licence 13-Yu-070309) β while operating job-seeker-facing media and agency brands that supply candidate flow. It also sells business-process outsourcing such as sales outsourcing and inside sales, and HR Tech-enabled recruitment operations support, and runs facilities including serviced housing for the elderly and home-care/nursing operations through group companies.
Revenue is generated from recruitment advertising and agency fees, placement fees, temporary staffing and dispatch billing, outsourcing/BPO service contracts and subscription-style HR software and media services. Reported net sales were JPY 50.8 billion for the fiscal year ended February 2024 and JPY 48.2 billion for the fiscal year ended February 2026.
Traction
Reported net sales were JPY 50.8 billion for the fiscal year ended February 2024 and JPY 48.2 billion for the fiscal year ended February 2026, with net income of JPY 421.19 million and total assets of JPY 13.97 billion for the period ended February 2026. Headcount was 3,891 as of end-June 2020, 3,887 as of 29 February 2024 and 3,651 as of 28 February 2026. Overseas operations are described as 21 bases in 10 countries. The Bee job database won "Leader" status in the ITreview Grid Award 2026 Spring for a fourth consecutive period, and the company was certified as an Indeed "Platinum Partner" in 2026.
Latest developments
In October 2025 Neo Career transferred its childcare-worker staffing business to Leverages Career (Levwell). In August 2026 it made Risaie Inc., an akiya (vacant house) regeneration business in Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido, a subsidiary, and participated as main sponsor of NAKASHIBETSU FUN FES. 2026. Group special-purpose subsidiary digsy was certified as a "DX Certified Business Operator" by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry in August 2026. Earlier partnerships include agreements with Executive Tailor (December 2024) for executive placement targeting people in their 40s and with Excomglobal (February 2025) on fertility-treatment health support services.
βΈFull profile β market position, technology, go-to-market, geography, history, risks & controversies
Market position
Neo Career positions itself as a comprehensive human resources services company operating around 30 businesses across the hiring lifecycle, with group revenue in the tens of billions of yen and roughly 3,600-3,900 employees. It is privately held and has received industry recognition including the HR Award 2016 professional category, an excellence award in the 2nd HR Technology Awards (2017) and an HR Challenge Award in 2018.
The company spans the full recruitment value chain β employer-side advertising, agency and staffing services alongside its own candidate media β and specialises in hard-to-fill occupational segments such as caregiving, childcare and engineering. It complements these with HR Tech products, outsourcing services and an Asian network operating under the Reeracoen brand that supports cross-border job changes.
Technology
Neo Career applies HR Tech to recruitment and recruitment-operations support, operates the Bee job database service, and has developed products including a prepaid fintech service. Its cloud back-office software business (jinjer, jinjer Meeting, jinjer Sign) was spun out into jinjer Inc. in 2021 and the business transferred to it in November 2021. The group has also adopted AI tooling internally, reporting a 50% reduction in advertising report production effort using an AI service for around 200 ad campaigns per month.
Go-to-market
The company combines a direct consulting and sales force across domestic offices (with locations added in Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka from 2009) with owned job-seeker media and agency brands, business alliances with technology and service partners, and channel accreditation such as Indeed "Platinum Partner" status. Overseas it goes to market under the Reeracoen brand through local subsidiaries.
Employers in Japan hiring new graduates, mid-career and part-time staff, including sectors with acute shortages such as nursing care, childcare and engineering; small and medium enterprises using outsourced sales and back-office services; and job seekers, students, second-time new graduates and foreign nationals seeking work in Japan or elsewhere in Asia.
Geography
Headquartered in Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, with domestic offices including Osaka, Nagoya and Fukuoka. Overseas operations run under the Reeracoen brand, described as 21 bases in 10 countries, established progressively from Singapore (2011) and Thailand (2012) to Indonesia and the Philippines (2013), Vietnam and the Philippines (2014), Malaysia, Taiwan and Thailand's Eastern Seaboard (2015), Hong Kong and Shanghai (2017), plus China (Shanghai) operations from 2013.
History
After starting in mid-career recruitment advertising in 2000, Neo Career added placement and engineer dispatch (2001), new graduate recruitment support and advertising (2004) and new graduate placement (2005). It moved its head office from Shibuya to Akasaka, Minato-ku in January 2004 and to Shinjuku in November 2011. Subsidiaries Axas Consulting Japan (now Axas Inc.) and Shukatsu College were established in 2007; general staffing began in 2010, alongside the merger of Shukatsu College into the parent and the M&A-based addition of Shushoku Agent Inc. The "Nice! Kaigo" caregiver dispatch business launched in 2012, the same year Cosmo Scientific System joined via M&A; that entity merged with Axas Consulting Japan in 2013 to form Axas Inc. Overseas expansion under the Reeracoen brand ran from 2011 to 2017. Neo Construction and OA Soken were established as subsidiaries in 2019, jinjer Inc. was spun off in 2021, a new corporate statement including a purpose was set in 2022, and digsy Inc., a special-purpose subsidiary for employment of people with disabilities, was created in July 2023.
Risks & controversies
Reported net sales declined from JPY 50.8 billion for the year ended February 2024 to JPY 48.2 billion for the year ended February 2026, and headcount fell from 3,887 (February 2024) to 3,651 (February 2026). The company has divested businesses, including the jinjer cloud services in 2021 and the childcare staffing business in 2025. Its Japanese-language Wikipedia entry carries notices questioning sourcing and notability. Operations depend on temporary staffing and fee-charging placement licences that require periodic renewal.
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Key figures
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Timeline Β· 18
launches, deals, and filingsGroup special-purpose subsidiary digsy was certified as a "DX Certified Business Operator" by the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Neo Career made Risaie Inc., a company engaged in vacant-house regeneration in Nakashibetsu, Hokkaido, a subsidiary.
The Bee job database service received the top "Leader" rating in the job database category for a fourth consecutive period.
Neo Career was certified in the highest category, "Platinum Partner", under Indeed's certified partner programme.
Neo Career transferred its nursery/childcare-worker temporary staffing business to Levwell (Leverages Career).
Neo Career partnered with Excomglobal and began internal adoption of health support services for fertility and infertility treatment.
Alliance to strengthen placement of executive-level talent such as management and CxO roles for candidates in their 40s.
Neo Career established digsy Inc., a special-purpose subsidiary promoting employment of people with disabilities.
Former SMBC banker Takahisa Nara joined Neo Career in 2022 as Executive Officer and CFO and later became Director and CFO.
Neo Career transferred its jinjer cloud back-office services, jinjer Meeting web conferencing and jinjer Sign electronic contract businesses to jinjer Inc.
Alliance aimed at improving efficiency of HR and contract business processes.
Alliance focused on improving cash flow and providing management support for small and medium-sized enterprises.
Neo Career carried out a third-party allotment of new shares, raising a total of JPY 4.5 billion including borrowings and other financing.
Joint development of new services and business models combining InsurTech.
Neo Career implemented a third-party allotment of new shares together with a transfer of shares, raising a total of JPY 800 million.
Neo Career set up its first overseas entity in Singapore under the Reeracoen brand.
Co-founder Ryoichi Nishizawa became representative director, President and CEO.
Dated company events from announcements, filings, and press; legal rows summarize public dockets and regulator releases.
βΈResearch sources Β· 7
primary sources listed
- Company Outline - neo careerneo-career.co.jp Β· web
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Frequently asked questions
- What does Neo Career Co., Ltd. do?
- Japanese human-resources services group offering recruitment support, job-seeker placement and business outsourcing in Japan and Asia.
- Who are Neo Career Co., Ltd.'s investors?
- Neo Career Co., Ltd.'s investors include Globis Capital Partners.