Elevating individual employees' capabilities

Mizuho publishes the "Human Capital Report" to comprehensively explain how we will create value together with our customers, the economy and society through "Enhancing Human Capital" and "Transforming Corporate Culture". For details on our various human capital initiatives.

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Human Capital Report

Career Development Management encourages employees to achieve career independence

Support system for considering careers together

Active investment in employee self-development

System that gives opportunities for considering careers together

For Mizuho to realize its sustainable growth strategy, it is crucial that each employee proactively seeks to grow by taking steps to improve their skills and abilities toward their desired career. We are investing in learning and providing opportunities for growth through our Career Development Management as a way to support this attitude of self-motivation among our employees. Furthermore, to enhance the middle management segment, which encourages our employees to challenge themselves, we operate training programs in which middle managers can obtain comprehensive training on the roles, knowledge, and skills demanded of management.
Recognizing the need to further strengthen initiatives that help our employees with career shaping, we are working on presenting concrete career paths, improving systems that assist their self-development, and disseminating information to expand the use of these programs and systems.

Career Development Management encourages employees to achieve career independence

Mizuho promotes Career Development Management as a way for each employee to achieve the career that's right for them. Career Development Management is a mechanism that encourages our employees to achieve their aims through a cycle of understanding yourself, learning about career fields and examples, considering careers together, pursuing self-development, building careers together, and growing through work. In FY2024, we created the Funds for Learning and the Funds for Qualifications to further support employees engaged in self-development. Additionally, to provide more opportunities to build careers together, we expanded the scope and roll out of the Job Challenge Program to all of our employees. The Job Challenge Program allows them to apply for positions of their choice even in the absence of an internal job posting. Through these initiatives, our employees are steadily building careers that align with their individual aspirations.

For enacting Mizuho's corporate identity through career independence cycle

Support system for considering careers together

In order for our employees to take concrete action toward building careers that align with their individual aspirations, it is important for them to understand what opportunities for growth are available at Mizuho and to consider what they want to achieve. Across our five core group companies, we provide tools and opportunities for our employees to consider their careers together with Mizuho and three programs to understand what opportunities are available for them. The programs appear to be widely used, having reached 6,000 users, but this figure represents just over 10 percent of all of our employees. To encourage greater use of the programs, we are working to enrich the programs' content, improve their usability, and promote awareness of the programs.
We have established a support system consisting of career interviews with managers and career advisors (approximately 30 people) who are permanently assigned to HR departments, to provide our employees with opportunities to reflect on their strengths, challenges, and career perspectives through dialog.

Three programs to learn about career opportunities

Active investment in employee self-development

Mizuho revamped our self-development support programs in FY2024 and set up the Funds for Learning and Funds for Qualification. These funds support employees in undertaking any form of self-directed learning or qualification aimed at acquiring the knowledge and skills to build their careers.
It is more important than ever that all of our employees engage in reskilling and upskilling, given the rapid changes in the technology and business landscape. To maximize the support we give to employees who intentionally pursue self-development, we have increased the amount of monetary support we provide and implemented programs that aid diverse learning opportunities.
The specific programs are the Funds for Learning, which provides up to 300,000 yen per year per employee to support any learning necessary for their current duties or future career development, and the Funds for Qualification, which offers a maximum of 200,000 yen per qualification as an incentive for employees who obtain qualifications recommended by the company.
These improvements have led to a 1.4-times increase in users of the programs compared to FY2023.

Overview of the Funds for Learning and the Funds for Qualification

Change in the number of users of the self-development support programs

System that gives opportunities for considering careers together

At Mizuho, our employees can expand their career paths by leveraging the knowledge and skills gained through self-development and by building experience in successfully taking on challenges in new posts. To enrich the opportunities for our employees to take on such challenges, we expanded the scope and roll out of the Job Challenge Program in FY2024 to all employees. The Job Challenge Program allows our employees to apply for positions of their choice even in the absence of an internal job posting. As a result, the number of applicants in FY2024 rose 1.5 times, in conjunction with the existing internal job posting system. Looking at the figures by age finds that the number of applicants over 40 increased significantly, indicating that employees of all ages, not just early-career employees, have a strong willingness to take on new challenges.

Overview of internal job postings and the Job Challenge Program and number of applicants

Number of applicants (by age) to internal job postings and the Job Challenge Program

Further information

Human Capital Report List of data(Elevating employees' capabilities) (PDF/6,886KB)