End the Era of Choosing by "Years of Experience"! Realizing a "Skill Assignment Infrastructure" to Unleash Young Engineers' Talent and Resolve Japan's IT Talent Shortage!

Our company supports April Dream, which aims to make April 1st a day to express dreams. This press release is the dream of "Skill Management and Assignment Management Support Tool fapi".

Currently, the SES industry is facing an unprecedented "polarization."

While projects are concentrated among highly skilled professionals, leading to high unit prices, young talents with great potential but difficulty in objectively proving their skills, and employees with mismatches between their possessed skills and projects, are missing out on opportunities to thrive.

Through "fapi," we will visualize individual skills as objective data and break down information barriers between companies, thereby building a "skill assignment infrastructure" where everyone can be evaluated based on their abilities and take on optimal projects.

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■ The "Invisible Wall" as a Social Issue Faced by the SES Industry

The current IT industry faces three unavoidable and serious challenges.

"Years of Experience" as an Inaccurate Measure

Demand is concentrated on highly skilled SEs, driving up unit prices, while young people are denied opportunities simply due to "lack of experience," halting the training cycle.

What should be evaluated is not "how many years one has been there" but "what one can do now." However, due to the lack of objective proof, many potential talents are being turned away at the door.

Major Companies' Talent Monopoly and the Plight of SMEs

As recruitment competition intensifies, only large companies with financial resources can acquire top talent, accelerating the shortage of engineers in SMEs that support Japan's system development.

If this continues, excellent SMEs with high technical capabilities but unable to win the recruitment competition will decline one after another, risking the collapse of the multi-layered structure that supports Japan's IT industry.

Black Box Assignment

Because it is unclear "who can do what," conservative assignments are made out of fear of mismatches, hindering innovation.

The inability to assign the optimal talent to challenging projects and the repetition of ad-hoc assignments based on "who is available" not only impedes engineers' career development but also leads to a decline in overall societal productivity.

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■ fapi's Solution as an "Infrastructure"

We will fundamentally solve these challenges by making fapi the "standard for skill management."

Shift from "Years of Experience" to "Specific Skills"

Instead of ambiguous resumes, fapi will certify finely segmented skills. Even young people can demonstrate their competence with evidence like "I'm as good as a veteran in this technology," enabling assignments at appropriate unit prices.

SMEs' "Training Capability" as a Weapon

fapi visualizes the growth log of in-house engineers. If SMEs can prove with data "how quickly they made young people productive," their competitiveness in the recruitment market will dramatically increase.

Industry-wide "Assignment Eco-system"

We will build an infrastructure where skill data can be accurately circulated across companies. We will create a world where people with the necessary skills can be instantly connected when needed, regardless of company size.

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■ Our Wish

The term "optimal placement" has existed for a long time, but even with technological advancements, it has remained difficult to achieve. We aim to create a society where "fair opportunities based on data" reach everyone through the 'Skill Management and Assignment Management Support Tool fapi'.

We want to create a future where organizations can confidently embark on new challenges because fapi is running in the background, just like water and electricity.

*"April Dream" is a project by PR TIMES where companies announce dreams they wish to achieve on April 1st. We are seriously committed to realizing this dream.

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■ What is 'Skill Management and Assignment Management Support Tool fapi'?

It contributes to the efficiency of tasks such as employee skill management and project assignment planning/management.

'Skill Management and Assignment Management Support Tool fapi' is equipped with various functions necessary for employee skill management and project assignment planning/management, contributing to operational efficiency.

The biggest feature of fapi is the flexibility of its management items. All items can be freely set according to the data that the introducing company wants to manage.

Furthermore, by creating a database of employee skills and project assignment statuses, it can be efficiently utilized in various situations such as skill management and assignment operations.

■ Recommended for companies struggling with Excel management

Managing and operating engineer skill sheets in Excel

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Difficulty in analyzing specialties and project trends

'Skill Management and Assignment Management Support Tool fapi':https://www.fdc-inc.co.jp/fapi/

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Business Activities: System development, consulting services, information processing services, network services, sales and implementation of system products
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