GMO-PG to Introduce "Year-Round Recruitment of Potential Talent" Starting with New Graduates in FY 2017Introduced "year-round potential recruitment" from the recruitment of new graduates in FY2017
~Joining the company twice a year, actively recruiting September graduates, existing graduates, and second new graduates~

GMO Internet Group, which develops comprehensive payment-related services and finance-related services, GMO Payment Gateway, Inc. (TSE partial: Securities code 3769, President & Chief Executive Officer: Issei Ainoura hereinafter referred to as "GMO-PG") will be able to choose the timing of joining the company from April and October 2017. Year-round potential recruitment".
By flexibly setting the timing of joining the company, we will recruit a wide range of students who will graduate in September, including those from overseas universities, as well as those who wish to join the company as existing graduates or second new graduates (*), and will actively recruit diverse human resources with high potential.
Applications for "Year-round Potential Recruitment" will begin on Thursday, December 15, 2016.

Young job seekers who have worked once after graduating from school, but want to change jobs in a short period of time.

GMO-PG Year-round Potential Recruitment Page URL: https://corp.gmo-pg.com/recruit/potential/

Based on the concept of "People Determine the Company", GMO-PG is working to create an organization where all staff can share the future vision of the business and the company and move forward together with the aim of achieving "continuity of operating profit growth of 25% or more" and continuous growth over the medium to long term.
In particular, we are focusing on recruiting and educating new graduates who will lead the future, and we have welcomed many new graduates regardless of educational background, gender, or nationality, and have continued to develop their youthful abilities by selecting them in their 20s as business managers and executive officers of Group companies.
In order to welcome a diverse range of human resources with even higher potential, we have decided to expand the door to hiring new graduates and introduce "year-round potential recruitment" that allows employees to choose when they will join the company outside of April, in addition to regular new graduate recruitment.

■ Year-round potential recruitment

"Year-round potential recruitment" allows new graduates to choose from two times to join the company, in April and October.
Until now, Japan and foreign students attending universities that did not graduate in March, such as overseas, had to wait until April to join GMO-PG as new graduates, but now they can find employment efficiently without delay.
In addition, those who have already graduated from university and have not found a job due to studying abroad or other reasons, and second new graduates who have found employment after graduation but have left their jobs are also eligible, so you can make use of the various experiences you have cultivated after graduation and gain experience as a member of society as soon as possible without waiting for Thailand to join the company.
Recruitment will start today, December 15, 2016 (Thursday), and will be applied to new employees who joined the company in 2017.

■GMO-PG New Graduate Recruitment Overview

At GMO-PG, each and every staff member has a high level of pride and awareness as the "landlord" of the company, and we are developing our own human resources so that they can improve themselves and aim to become professionals.

1. An array of human resources development programs such as training in special skills and future executive development

The company holds study sessions with managements, beginning with the president, on such areas as corporate culture, business expertise, and specialized knowledge. It also conducts an array of human resources development initiatives such as training for managers, training in special skills by breakdown of job classification, and programs for the development of executives.

2) Self-designed career path system

In order to enable each staff member to decide and grow in their own careers, we have introduced a "Career Design System" that allows employees to request a transfer of assignment or job rotation once a year based on their own growth vision, Thailand experience, work content, and skills they have Thailand acquired. In addition, when assigning new employees, they can decide where they will be assigned so that they can work with a high level of motivation in the department where they Thailand work. Through this system, we have built a system that allows employees to decide their own careers and grow.
In addition, we are focusing on creating an environment in which all staff can be fairly evaluated and grow, such as opportunities for young employees to take on challenges, a system for evaluating individual abilities regardless of gender or nationality, and a 360-degree multifaceted evaluation system that allows subordinates to evaluate their superiors.

3) Creating a comfortable working environment, including welfare facilities

As one of the welfare programs, we are focusing on creating an environment where staff can work with high motivation, such as holding special training overseas as a convention for excellent staff selected from each department.
In addition, there is a communication space that can be used 24 hours a day and provides free meals and drinks, an in-house daycare center, an in-house massage facility, a nap space (nap space), etc. operated and equipped by the GMO Internet Group, as well as a concierge service that allows busy staff to pick up luggage on their behalf, make reservations for welcome and farewell parties, and ask for personal errands such as shopping. We have a system in place to make it easy for our staff to work on a daily basis.

4) Unique benefits to encourage "the spirit of gratitude"

In terms of salaries and Thailand, in addition to general allowances, we have implemented unique measures such as the payment of "filial piety allowance" as a salary allowance and the "Student Financial Insurance Assistance Allowance" that assists with insurance premiums when applying for children's school insurance, based on the desire for employees to cherish the "spirit of gratitude" that is also part of the corporate culture.
In addition, in order to ensure that staff who give birth and raise children can work with peace of mind, we provide "maternity leave" and "childcare leave" as childbirth and childcare support, as well as "spouse maternity leave" and "family support system (fertility support)."

GMO-PG provides comprehensive payment-related services to 77,256 merchants (as of September 2016 of the GMO-PG Group), including online businesses such as online shops and digital content, businesses that charge monthly fees such as NHK and subscription, and public entity stores such as the Japan Pension Service and the Tokyo Metropolitan Government.
Focusing on payment services, we provide value-added services such as web advertising services that contribute to improving the sales of merchants, finance-related services such as loans to support the growth of merchants from the financial side, and overseas businesses such as the provision of overseas payment services, resulting in an annual Transaction value of approximately 2 trillion yen.
GMO-PG aims to provide a safe and convenient payment for consumers and businesses, and to become the infrastructure for the payment process. As a leading company in the payment industry, we will continue to lead new innovations such as FinTech and contribute to improving the EC ratio of Japan.

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