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Recruit (株式会社リクルートホールディングス, Kabushiki Kaisha Rikurūto Hōrudingusu) is a human resources company headquartered in Japan. It was founded as "Daigaku Shimbun Koukokusha" in 1960[1] as an advertisement company that specialized in university newspapers. It owns the job search engine Indeed and the employer review site Glassdoor.
Japanese human resources company
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![]() GranTokyo South Tower in Tokyo, the headquarters of Recruit | |
Type | Public (K.K.) |
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TYO: 6098 | |
Industry | Published media |
Founded | 1960; 63 years ago (1960)[1] |
Headquarters | , |
Key people | Hisayuki Idekoba, President, CEO and Representative Board Director |
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Number of employees | 138 (holding company) 46,800 (group) (as of March 31, 2021)[2] |
Website | recruit-holdings |

It had sales of over 2,269.3 billion Yen in FY2020,[3] with overseas sales contributing 46% of total revenue.