CockPit Holdings Acquires 100% of Leaps Co., Ltd. Shares

CockPit Holdings Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Minato-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Sumiki Namazuya; hereinafter "CockPit") announces that it has acquired 100% of the shares of Leaps Co., Ltd. (hereinafter "Leaps"), a company engaged in career change support, recruitment consulting, and sales HR, bringing the company into its group.

This acquisition is part of a strategy to implement "referral-based recruitment," which does not rely on advertising, on a nationwide scale. Following the acquisition of CRUISE Co., Ltd. in Osaka as the first phase, welcoming Nagoya-based Leaps into the group will strengthen collaboration among regional referral networks, enhance the quality and reproducibility of referrals, and promote the standardization of this model across the industry.

Significance and Purpose of This Acquisition

1. Strategic Significance
Leaps is a Nagoya-based HR venture company that, in addition to paid employment placement (license number: 23-Yu-30270), also operates in the sales HR sector.

This initiative is the second phase of our area strategy, following the acquisition of CRUISE in Osaka, aimed at expanding the foundation of our referral network in the Tokai region. By incorporating referral achievements cultivated through close local ties and promoting knowledge sharing and standardization within our group, we will enhance the reproducibility and sustainability of the referral-based recruitment model.

This will allow us to build a more extensive support system where both job seekers and companies can make decisions with conviction.

2. Expected Synergy with Our Company
By combining our company's philosophy and mechanisms for referral-based career change support with Leaps' operational capabilities and sales HR domain expertise cultivated in the Nagoya market, we aim to achieve the following enhancements:

(For job seekers) Advanced accompanying support from career articulation to decision-making.
To realize "a selectable job change" rather than "just a job offer you can choose," we design end-to-end support from career articulation assistance to post-entry success and retention.

(For companies) Strengthen accompanying support from upstream recruitment design.
We rectify job requirements that deviate from actual site conditions and reduce the probability of post-entry gaps by providing accompanying support from the definition stage.

(For the market) Promoting structural transformation from an advertising-dependent model.
While referral hiring and referral-based recruitment are gaining traction, they still have room for growth. Through collaboration with HR companies rooted in local cities, we will implement essential career support and recruitment support tailored to regional characteristics, promoting a shift from a market structure solely dependent on advertising.

Value to be Provided Post-Integration

"Defining success in career change not by the start date, but by retention."

Our company does not end career change support with "job offer acquisition."

In an era where changing jobs is common, we believe a system is needed to reduce the "redo cost" of early turnover for society as a whole.

Through this group integration, we will redesign the career change process from decision-making to retention and success as a single process, and incrementally strengthen the following initiatives:

1. Systematization of a career design process that leads to "a selectable job change."
2. Construction of a requirement definition model based on "recruitment success = retention and success."
3. Implementation of follow-up design to minimize post-entry gaps.
4. Establishment of an accompanying support system from strategic design to execution support for referral hiring.
* Service menus, start times, and systems will be announced sequentially as they are established.

Representative Comments

Sumiki Namazuya, Representative Director, CockPit Holdings Co., Ltd.
"Advertising-dependent recruitment and HR agency models are at a structural turning point. This participation of Leaps in our group is part of an initiative to expand referral-based recruitment in a community-rooted form. Following last year's acquisition of a well-established company in Osaka, the addition of Nagoya as a new base will realize the ideal form of recruitment based on trust. We will continue to pursue career change support under our external mission of 'Questioning the HR industry,' focusing not just on the start date but until retention, and aiming to 'enrich the Monday of 120 million people.'"

Ryo Takahashi, Representative Director, Leaps Co., Ltd.
"Leaps has embodied 'the joy of working for everyone' through HR placement and sales HR. We are confident that by aligning with the purpose and support philosophy of the CockPit Group, we can deliver the joy of working to even more people."

Interview article here:
https://www.wantedly.com/companies/company_5898157/post_articles/1054599

■ CockPit Holdings Co., Ltd. Company Profile
Company Name: CockPit Holdings Co., Ltd. https://cockpit-tokyo.com/
Company Address: Sumitomo Fudosan Tamachi Bldg. 3F, 3-12-7 Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0023
Phone Number: 03-6665-8866
Date of Establishment: May 1, Reiwa 1 (2019)
Capital: 45,000,000 yen
Representative Director: Sumiki Namazuya
Director: Kai Takeuchi
Business Activities: Human resources placement business / Sales HR business / Human resources placement startup support business / Temporary staffing business

【Inquiries from media regarding this matter】
CockPit Holdings Co., Ltd. Public Relations: Aika Yokoyama
Tel: 03-6665-8866 / E-mail: cockpit-yokoyama.a@cock-pit.co.jp