Kirin Introduces 'Multi-dimensional Potential Evaluation' Using VARIETAS' 'TA Team' for New Graduate Recruitment

VARIETAS Co., Ltd. announces that Kirin Holdings Company, Limited (hereinafter 'Kirin') has decided to fully introduce the 'Multi-dimensional Potential Evaluation' framework, which understands people more multi-dimensionally, starting from new graduate recruitment for the class of 2028.

This initiative is realized by utilizing the 'TA Team' (Talent Acquisition Team), a new recruitment infrastructure that comprehensively supports the entire recruitment team, including the interactive AI interview service 'AI Interviewer' already introduced and operating at Kirin with high results.

As society rapidly becomes more complex and corporate human resource requirements diversify, VARIETAS has been providing major companies with a mechanism for multi-faceted candidate understanding that only AI can achieve, through solutions from 'AI Interviewer' to 'TA Team'. The 'Multi-dimensional Potential Evaluation' being fully introduced this time is a framework established through supporting many companies, combining multiple interview methods and evaluation axes to understand candidate characteristics not as 'points' but as 'solids'.

Looking ahead to further expandability starting from new graduate recruitment, we will support improving the accuracy of optimal matching that is more satisfactory for both candidates and companies.

TA Team website: https://tateam.jp AI Interviewer website: https://ai-interview.online * 'AI Interviewer' is one agent provided within 'TA Team'.

Background VARIETAS has supported multi-faceted candidate understanding that cannot be captured by human interviews alone, through providing the interactive AI interview 'AI Interviewer' to leading major Japanese companies.

AI interviews that can converse with all candidates based on the same criteria are spreading as a mechanism that supports reproducibility and fairness in selection, while carefully picking up candidates' words and thought processes and suppressing variation in interpretation among interviewers.

On the other hand, in today's rapidly changing world where the speed of change in major companies' medium-term management plans is also fast, we have recognized the need to evaluate human potential more multi-dimensionally to support even more appropriate matching. For example, there are many aspects of a candidate's three-dimensionality that only become visible by combining multiple interview methods, such as degree of empathy with values, thought processes, depth and application ability in specialized areas.

Furthermore, from the candidate's perspective, there should be a dialogue opportunity where they can convey their strengths and values more multi-dimensionally.

Through the use of VARIETAS' solutions by many major companies, we have developed an appropriate interview design according to the items companies want to evaluate, and have established a system capable of multi-dimensional candidate evaluation.

At Kirin, the foundation of VARIETAS' 'TA Team' has already been introduced, and its effectiveness in improving reproducibility and fairness in selection has been confirmed. This initiative applies the concept and technology of the 'Specialized AI Interviewer Series*' announced earlier, which optimizes interviews for each evaluation perspective, and further three-dimensionalizes candidate understanding by making the interview methods themselves multi-dimensional.

*Details of the Specialized AI Interviewer Series: https://prtimes.jp/main/html/rd/p/000000058.000079152.html

Comment from Kirin Ms. Mio Imai, Recruitment Team Leader, Human Resource Strategy Department, Kirin Holdings Company, Limited 'We want to meet colleagues who sympathize with and embody the KIRIN WAY, the values and action guidelines towards the realization of the long-term management vision Innovate2035!. To that end, we have been thinking about understanding each applicant more deeply and multi-faceted. This initiative is an evolution of recruitment activities starting from 'depth of understanding' rather than efficiency. By combining multiple AI interviews, we expect to be able to identify applicants' strengths and values with greater precision than before. We hope that for applicants as well, this will become a dialogue space where they can convey their unique strengths and values from multiple angles.'

Overview of the Initiative: What is 'Multi-dimensional Potential Evaluation'? 'Multi-dimensional Potential Evaluation' is a framework developed to understand candidates three-dimensionally by combining multiple interview methods and evaluation axes, based on dialogue understanding through 'TA Team' and the design of 'Specialized AI Interviewer Series'.

Simply increasing evaluation items does not enable proper evaluation of candidates. This is a versatile mechanism that optimizes evaluation items and interview methods, established through adoption by leading major Japanese companies and over 500,000 cumulative test takers annually.

Specifically, by combining evaluation axes such as the following, candidates' characteristics and potential are captured multi-dimensionally. *The following are examples of evaluation axes.

Specifically, utilizing the expandability of evaluation items of the 'Specialized AI Interviewer Series', the following evaluation axes are combined according to Kirin's requirements to capture candidates' characteristics and potential multi-dimensionally. *The following are examples of evaluation axes.

Fundamental Social Skills: Basic work execution ability, interpersonal understanding, self-management ability, etc. Corporate Philosophy/Values: Empathy and fit with the values and action principles each company values (such as KIRIN WAY) Thinking Ability: Thought processes such as problem setting, structuring, hypothesis thinking, decision-making Expertise: Depth, reproducibility, and applicability in specialized fields

Each interview method plays a role in highlighting different aspects of candidates. By combining them, a three-dimensional picture of the candidate that cannot be captured by a single method is drawn, and the true match between company and candidate is determined.

Each interview method plays a role in highlighting different aspects of candidates. By combining them, a three-dimensional picture of the candidate that cannot be captured by a single method is drawn, and the true match between company and candidate is determined.

About VARIETAS VARIETAS supports the advancement of recruitment and human resource evaluation using AI. It provides company decision-making support based on recruitment data, starting with the AI recruitment platform 'TA Team'.

Company Name: VARIETAS Co., Ltd. Website: https://varietas.co.jp Contact: support@varietas.co.jp