From 'Profile Recruitment' to 'Behavioral Recruitment': Launch of New Graduate Scouting Service 'ScoutLink'

SHiRO Inc. announced the launch of 'ScoutLink', a scouting service for new graduate recruitment, on May 18, 2026.

The company is currently seeking early-adopter companies to cooperate in improving service operations, offering special pricing and other benefits as incentives.

From a pool of approximately 20,000 newly registered students per month, the service visualizes strengths, orientations, and seriousness that cannot be seen in self-PR sections alone. This reduces mismatches and achieves highly accurate matching that leads to offer acceptances.

■ Three Challenges in the New Graduate Recruitment Market

The new graduate recruitment market is becoming increasingly severe each year due to a declining number of students and rising recruitment needs. Through interviews with recruiting companies, SHiRO identified three prominent challenges:

1. Concentration and Burial of Offers
The student demographic registered on each scouting platform has become fixed, leading to multiple offers concentrating on the same students.
2. Difficulty in Assessment
There is an increase in 'appealing' profiles tailored simply to 'get scouted', making it difficult to assess a student's essential orientations and strengths based solely on superficial information.
3. Increase in Offer Declines and Mismatches
Scouts sent based on profile information often lead to mismatches in culture and orientation during actual interactions, increasingly resulting in offer declines and early turnover.

■ 'Behavioral Recruitment' Realized by ScoutLink

While traditional scouting services rely on self-reported profiles, ScoutLink uses AI to comprehensively analyze actual behavioral data accumulated across SHiRO's four AI job-hunting services (SmartES, Interview Practice AI, Company Research AI, and Sugoi Shukatsu). This delivers the 'real' student to companies, beyond what is visible in the self-PR section.

■ Three Strengths of ScoutLink

POINT 01 | In-house Operation of Four Products Regularly Used by Job Hunters
Operating services for ES creation, interview practice, company research, and self-analysis allows the accumulation of data on how students approach job hunting itself.
POINT 02 | Highly Accurate Matching Leading to Offer Acceptance
AI analyzes behavioral data to visualize logical thinking, communication skills, and more. This enables targeted approaches to students who fit the company, preventing early turnover.
POINT 03 | Significant Reduction in Effort for Building Candidate Pools
AI summarizes the student profile in about 200 characters from behavioral data, consolidating metrics on a single screen. This allows companies to determine fit in just 30 seconds per person.