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Dialogue "Tarzan Yamamoto ×Toudoukan Director" 9. Imperial "Human Resources" Bank
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9. Imperial "Human Resources" Bank
Director: As one of the highlights of Teikoku Databank's 100th anniversary commemorative project, an in-house venture project was announced. At that time, the company was quite serious about the project.
We solicit proposals on a large scale within the company, and if the proposal is adopted, that person will become the representative director, and the capital of 10 million yen will be issued by Databank.
Tarzan Yamamoto: yes, yes. It's an adventure within the company.
Director: The moment the project was announced, I thought, "This is a project for me!"
So, I came up with several ideas for myself, and I decided that this was the only one I could find, so I created a project called "Imperial 'Human Resources' Bank."
Teikoku Databank talks directly with presidents from all over the country on a regular basis, so we know what kind of human resources each company wants, and more specifically, their voices and demands.
So, at that time, from the end of the 90s to 2000, there was a huge recession.
Yamaichi Securities went bankrupt, and the number of unemployed people increased.
The unemployed people's careers, personalities, and characteristics are successfully matched with the recruitment needs of small and medium-sized enterprises, such as what kind of human resources they want and what kind of people they want to hire, using the information network of the data bank.
We will provide a flexible way to match human resources in a new way that is completely different from the job postings that Recruit and other companies are doing, and the bureaucratic forms such as Hello Work.
It's like a unique recruitment agency for small and medium-sized businesses.
If we provide such a service on a nationwide scale, there is a possibility that we can solve the recession in Japan (laughs).
Tarzan Yamamoto: Hahaha, that's a bold idea!
Director: Let's bring about a human resources revolution in Japan! (laughs) I wrote down what I was interested in and fleshed out the numbers there.
So, in order to make an impact, we will first hold an inaugural press conference.
"We will break through this blocked recession situation in Japan, and we will utilize the information network of 1 million companies owned by Teikoku Databank to solve the unemployment problem!" So, if we can get this off the ground, the image of the main body of the Teikoku Databank will completely change thanks to the human resources bank.
Well, Teikoku Databank is a respectable company, but it has a somewhat dark image because it deals with credit information and bankruptcy information.
Tarzan Yamamoto: There is. It has a dark image.
Director: That would make our image as a social justice company brighter, so I wrote about unnecessary things (wry smile)
It has been 100 years since our founding, and we submitted that it was time to do it, and that we should do it.
At Teikoku Databank, I think there were about 3,000 full-time employees nationwide at the time.
There were only 12 applications. I was the only new employee to leave.
Then, the outline of each proposal is announced internally as part of the process of selection.
So, even if you look at the other projects one by one, I am overwhelmingly excited because they seem to be interesting, and the scale is large, but from my point of view, it is only (laughs).
I thought to myself that I could do this.
However, the person who selected it said, "The outlook on the numbers is too naïve, and it is not realistic to hold a press conference suddenly."
That's probably the only reason, and it was dropped.
I thought, "Hey, a venture is something new, so the content of the project is more important than the numbers," and I thought, "It's the image that is important to draw a picture that has never been done before" (laughs), but I was almost never touched by the contents.
Tarzan Yamamoto: Ah, it's typical of a Japan company. It's a stalemate. Organizational stalemate.
Director: So, what was hired was a service that allows you to take a domain and authenticate a website on the Internet.
I'm sure there was a deep strategy for cutting-edge services at that time, but from my point of view, why is this for Databank's 100th anniversary project? In any case, I guess what the newcomer (me) was saying was not dealt with (laughs).
Tarzan Yamamoto: Well, the company takes the safety pie
Director: At that time, I thought that it was different to have people evaluate you, give you money, and do something.
If you want to take risks for fun, you can't do it with someone else's money.
It doesn't matter if it's company money, bank money, or parents or friends' money.
I felt that I had to complete everything within my own scope.
No matter how small it is, you have to set up a business with all your own money and do it without asking anyone for permission or being dictated. I can't do it freely.
If it's your own money, you don't regret doing it freely and failing, and you don't bother those around you.
If you don't have debt, it's not bankruptcy, it's going out of business, so you can start from scratch again and try again as many times as you want. If it wasn't, it wouldn't make sense. I thought about it again.
I don't think it's like having someone evaluate you first and then asking you to pay for it.
That's inconvenient.
Tarzan Yamamoto: It's not free, or rather, I don't have absolute authority. There's no point in doing something you don't have permission to do. If you don't become the control tower, it's true in the truest sense of the word. Perfect.
Director: That's right. That's what I thought.
When I first joined the company, for about five years, I thought I would work as a salaryman until the end of my 20s and study to save money.
One year later, while I was working on this venture project, I decided that I wanted to do something on my own, and my original desire to start a business flared up again, and I couldn't control it, and I couldn't wait five years.
At that stage, I was able to answer the phone properly, and I was already able to exchange business cards (laughs).
I'm talking about what level it is (laughs).
When I was a student, I thought that I had to acquire it when I worked as a ticket acquisition agency, and I thought that I had acquired the minimum level of social common sense.
I haven't been able to become the investigator I was looking forward to yet. Well, I think it's enough. (laughs)
Tarzan Yamamoto: Well, whether you give up or not is the difference in your life. A lot of people don't give up, they depend on it to live their lives, and they live on the organization.
Those who give up want freedom. They seek adventure. This is where the fork in the road lies. But that's a minority. In Japan. After that, it all depends on the organization.
I don't even do it. It's a safety pie, a predetermined relationship, and a real life in it.