Smareju and PORTERS to Host Online Seminar on How Industry-Specific AI Will Transform Recruitment Agency Work

Smareju Inc., a Tokyo-based company that provides solutions to improve the efficiency and quality of HR operations using advanced technologies such as AI, big data, and cloud computing, will jointly host an online seminar with PORTERS Corporation, a provider of cloud services for the staffing and recruitment industry. The seminar, titled “How Will AI Change Recruitment Agency Operations? The Future of Recruitment Realized Through Industry-Specific AI,” will be held on Wednesday, May 20, and Tuesday, May 26, 2026. In recent years, the use of generative AI has attracted growing attention across many operations in the recruitment industry. However, many companies have yet to make full use of it due to challenges such as difficulty writing appropriate prompts, a lack of concrete images of how AI can be applied to recruitment agency work, and lingering concerns about security. The seminar will explain how recruitment agencies can specifically use AI to improve productivity. It will first identify the reasons why AI adoption has not progressed in many recruitment businesses, then introduce appropriate methods for promoting AI adoption based on case studies of companies that have successfully implemented it. The seminar will also explain how recruitment operations will change through the integration of the AI SaaS “Smareju” and the matching system “PORTERS,” which was realized in September 2025. The seminar is recommended for those who want to fundamentally improve productivity in recruitment services and maximize the number of successful placements per consultant; those who want to promote AI adoption at the company level but remain hesitant due to security risks or concerns about return on investment; those who have introduced generative AI to their teams but find that only some members use it and it has not taken root on-site; and those who understand the importance of generative AI but want concrete use cases because they cannot yet picture how it can be applied to recruitment operations. “Smareju” is an AI service that automates the entire workflow from importing job and candidate information to generating job descriptions, resumes, and work history documents. It enables the fastest AI-driven automation of recruitment and staffing operations. Through integration with PORTERS, it eliminates the need for prompt creation dependent on individual expertise, enabling anyone to instantly produce high-quality documents. As a result, consultants in the field are freed from extensive administrative work and can focus on value that only humans can provide, such as conversations with job seekers and career development support. Participants in the previous seminar commented that the specialization for recruitment operations seemed useful; that the integration with PORTERS helped them imagine generative AI use cases; and that they were able to hear proposals for using AI in connection with PORTERS. Others noted that creating job descriptions, entering interview records after meetings, and preparing recommendation letters are time-consuming in actual work, and that the introduced tool seemed capable of simplifying these tasks. Another participant said the ability to extract a job seeker’s resume from the PORTERS screen with one click was appealing, and that the content aligned with the theme and appeared useful for solving current departmental challenges, including the need to move seamlessly from job entry after business development to candidate recommendation document creation. Speakers include Hisanari Yamaoka, Representative Director and CEO of Smareju Inc. and Representative Director and CEO of Plus Synergy Inc.; Yuki Tsuchido, Representative Director and CPO of Smareju Inc. and Director and CBO of Panhouse Inc.; and Yohei Kaneda, Manager of Consulting Unit Growth Group at PORTERS Corporation. The seminar title is “How Will AI Change Recruitment Agency Operations? The Future of Recruitment Realized Through Industry-Specific AI.” It will be held from 12:00 to 13:00 on Wednesday, May 20, 2026, and from 13:00 to 14:00 on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. Participation is free, the viewing method is Zoom, and capacity is limited to 500 people. The target audience is executives, business managers, and staff members at recruitment agencies. Smareju Inc. is headquartered at Aoyama Marutake Building 6F, 3-1-36 Minami-Aoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, with a Nihonbashi office at R.core Nihonbashi Ningyocho Building 8F, 7-13 Nihonbashi Tomizawacho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo. The company provides solutions that improve the efficiency and quality of HR operations using advanced technologies such as AI, big data, and cloud computing.