"Encourage Growth"
（Three Pillars ⑴）
Amid the dramatic shifts taking place in the social conditions and economic environment in which the Bank is situated, employees must precisely address the increasingly complex needs of our customers. For this purpose, every employee must consider their own careers, strive to grow, provide customer-oriented services, and develop professional human resources who are willing to take on the challenge of enhancement areas . Under the belief that the very growth of a diverse range of human resources is a source of competitiveness, the Bank provides active support for career development.
In addition, from the dual approach of recruitment and developing existing human resources for the enhancement areas in the Medium-term Management Plan, the Bank strives to secure personnel in specialized fields, and is advancing active recruitment of outside human resources along with the acquisition of knowledge and know-how in specialized fields.
Development of Autonomous Employees
As individual values and careers diversify, we recognize the need to review the traditional company-led deployment of human resources and human resource development.
The Bank provides opportunities for employees to gain awareness and learn in order for them to consider a vision for their future selves, and to execute plans to achieve this vision of their own accord.
The Career Design Guidebook provides a career challenge system and internships within group companies to help employees think about their careers and take on the challenge of their own careers.
Along with revising the existing management stance and shifting to a servant leadership style that draws out the capabilities of employees based on relationships of trust, the Bank has introduced 1 on 1 meeting for the purpose of deepening communication and the resulting successful circulation model.
Fostering an awareness of career development
As an opportunity to think about their own careers, we have formulated the career design guidebook that presents the work content of all organizations and departments, introductions of career development support measures, and employee interviews who actually used them.
We also conduct career design training, which involves taking an inventory of our own careers, designing the life that we want to envision through our work, thinking about actions toward realization, establishing e-learning courses on career design by age group. We are working to foster an awareness of thinking about careers on our own.
Providing opportunities for career choice
We have introduced the following systems as an opportunity to select and implement the careers that we have drawn on ourselves.
The Career Challenge System, which allows employees to transfer to other departments through internal recruitment, is increasing year by year both in the number of target departments and applicants. Of the total 206 applicants in FY2023, approximately 60 applicants applied to the departments that form the core of the Bank's three businesses.
In addition, the Postal Services Group conducts in-house recruitment across the Group, Strategic side job, and internships within group companies, enabling career development across companies and organizations.
Providing learning opportunities related to career development
To open up careers, we provide opportunities for employees to learn independently.
In addition to e-learning, correspondence courses, and subsidies for qualifications acquisition costs available to all employees, we are expanding our voluntary career development support measures through DX practical human resources programs, selected training, and open recruitment for studying abroad and other means.
| DX Practical Human Resources Program | Publicly recruited and selectively trained personnel who play a central role in data utilization |
| Selected training | Training in which participants choose the topics they wish to study |
| Study at graduate schools in Japan and abroad | Dispatch personnel with a global perspective and highly specialized knowledge in the fields of finance, management, and law on a selective basis through open recruitment |
| E-learning,Correspondence Courses, Qualification Acquisition Assistance | E-learning (275 courses (including 139 e-learning courses accessible from home)), correspondence courses (203 courses), and providing subsidies for qualification fees. *Number of e-learning and correspondence courses is based on FY2023 results. |
Initiatives for managerial positions, Management transformation
In order for employees to grow independently, autonomously and to make the most of their individuality, we believe that management of managers close to the employees are important, and we are transforming ourselves into a servant leadership style.
Specifically, we carry out management training aimed at understanding and practicing servant leadership style, and improving listening and nurturing skills to managers in each organization.
We have also introduced 1on1 meetings for the purpose of deepening communications and resulting successful circulation model, and we conduct 1on1 training for managers.
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1 on 1 Bibles
Training, On-the-Job Training, Mentoring program
In order to nurture employees who grow themselves through challenges and maximize their abilities, which is the basic concept of our human resource strategy, Job level-based training is structured to learn the stance (attitude and role awareness) of each position and implement it in their work.
In the acquisition of business knowledge, we provide training by job function, mainly through on-the-job training by senior employees in the same department. In addition, senior employees from other departments serve as mentors to support career development and workplace adaptation through advice.
Active Recruitment of Specialized Human Resources in Enhancement Areas
In an effort to secure and develop specialized human resources as early as possible in the market operations, digital, and other fields, the Bank introduced course-specific recruitment for new-graduate hires. Similarly, the Bank is focused on recruiting students that possess advanced specializations.
In market operations, risk management, and other fields that require advanced specialization, the Bank engages in mid-career recruitment leveraging direct recruiting and alumni networks. In the Investment Division in particular, we introduced and applied a professional position system in April 2016 to recruit and retain human resources with diverse backgrounds and skills. By accumulating, inheriting, and deepening the know-how of these human resources within the company, the number of internally promoted employees to professional positions has also increased year by year.
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External recruitment
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Internal recruitment
Dispatch to other companies
The Bank actively seconds employees to other companies and engages in human resources exchanges from the standpoint of deepening the understanding of different businesses and organizational cultures, as well as of helping employees acquire specialized knowledge. This effort is also taken from the standpoint of building networks with a diverse range of human resources.
Among these initiatives, the Bank dispatches loaned employees to affiliated companies (GP, etc.) and focuses on human resources development as part of our efforts to strengthen the Σ (Sigma) Business, a Key Strategy of the Medium-term Management Plan.
These initiatives serve as opportunities for employees to gain a new awareness, as well as opportunities to reexamine themselves from a different standpoint than in the past. In this way, they function to support the career development and growth of our employees.
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Number of human resources dispatched to other companies (cumulative total)
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Number of employees currently dispatched to other companies as of April of each fiscal year
