Recruit Holdings announced its most important business strategy, Simplify Hiring, aims to make it faster and easier to get a job and to make a hire. In Japan, the second largest HR Matching market after the US, Indeed launched Indeed PLUS nationwide on January 30, 2024. Indeed PLUS is a job distribution platform that brings more job posting options and efficient job search and recruitment activities to job seekers and employers.

The most important feature of Indeed PLUS is that it automatically distributes job postings based on their job descriptions to the job boards linked to Indeed PLUS (Indeed PLUS Job Boards) that are judged to be the most appropriate through an "Application Programming Interface" (API). With the introduction of Indeed PLUS, the existing multiple full-time job boards and part-time job boards in HR Solutions in the Matching & Solutions segment (HR Solutions) will join the Indeed PLUS Job Boards. As a partner of Indeed Japan KK (Indeed Japan), HR Solutions will now offer Indeed PLUS to its business clients, supporting the sales and marketing activities of Indeed PLUS.

In Japan, HR Solutions and Indeed have been collaborating by leveraging their respective strengths. In the highly fragmented Japanese job advertising market, where job boards are categorized by type of profession, location, and type of employment, HR Solutions operates leading job boards focused on full-time and part-time jobs including Rikunabi NEXT, TOWNWORK, From A Navi, Hatalike, and Travail based on a "Pay Per Post'' (or "PPP") pricing model. Indeed offers both free and paid job postings for all job types with a "Pay Per Click" (or "PPC") pricing model, which is an auction-based pay for performance model.

Moving forward, HR Solutions and Indeed will accelerate their collaboration to develop better solutions for job seekers and employers in the Japanese market. In Japan, job seekers have tended to rely on specialized job boards, resulting in job seekers' options being limited to jobs only posted directly on these selected job boards. Now, Indeed PLUS automatically distributes job postings based On their job descriptions from Applicant Tracking Systems ("ATS") linked to Indeed PLUS to the Indeed PLUS Job Boards that are judged to be the more appropriate, improving the job search experience by offering a broader range of jobs.