Career Support
Chugai Pharmaceutical’s Career Support Vision
Increase the number of employees who envision and embrace the challenge of their own careers with autonomy
In pursuit of achieving TOP I 2030, we are focused on developing self-directed talent.
Since the reform of our career development system in 2012, we have promoted employees’ autonomous career development in accordance with our career policy of “valuing opportunities for each individual to realize and nurture their own potential for autonomy and mutual growth.”
The new HR system introduced in 2025 includes a job-focused employment model for general employees, offering them early-stage opportunities to shape their careers and acquire the competencies and skills needed to achieve their future career aspirations.
In addition, we have established several programs to support employees’ autonomous career development, such as holding career design training according to age, and setting up a career consultation office.
Steps to “envision and enhance” career plans
We provide various forms of support to help Chugai employees fully demonstrate their abilities and to keep growing by embracing challenges. These include developing an environment that will allow them to envision their own careers, be conscious of their future vision, and take concrete action.
Specific Initiatives to Help Employees “Envision and Enhance” Their Careers
Basic Cycle of Career Development
Chugai’s basic career development cycle is a repetitive cycle of self-recognition, practice and reflection (“envision and enhance” individuals) based on the career declaration system.
<Career declaration system>
A system by which Chugai employees can declare to the Company their desired jobs, future career plans, and so on.
These declarations are the basis for career dialogues between employees and their superiors.
Envision Individuals: Forums to Build Awareness, Think and Talk
We provide various training programs that help employees to deepen their understanding of themselves and think about their careers.
Career Development Training
Career development training and level-specific training are designed to get employees to think about their careers and deepen their understanding of their career direction while confirming their expected roles.
Career Design Program
A program by which Chugai employees are given opportunities to take stock (self-diagnose) their career so far once every 10 years, deepen their understanding of themselves, and envision their career from that point onward. Training tailored to each employees’ age group and environment is provided.
We provide individual career support through career consultation, and post relevant information on our website.
Career Consultation Office
In our Career Consultation Office, consultants support employees by providing information about career planning and tips for skills development, to help them achieve their individual career visions. As of the end of 2024, a total of around 1,600 people had come to the office for consultation since it opened in 2007.
Career Web
A website designed to support employees in building their careers by providing resources such as points to consider in career planning, and information on the skills and knowledge necessary for specific careers.
Enhance Individuals: Opportunities for Further Growth
We promote further growth through a range of opportunities.
I-learning/Self-Improvement support Program (SIP)
This program introduces correspondence courses to employees and supports attendance at outside programs to facilitate self-directed skill development.
In-house Internships/in-house Side Jobs
A system by which Chugai employees are given opportunities to enhance their skills for their own growth and develop their careers by experiencing work in other departments in Chugai.
Dual Roles/Side Jobs Outside the Company
Chugai employees are permitted to work with people outside the company beyond corporate boundaries. This provides the opportunities to acquire new skills and form new values and personal networks, and helps with their self-growth. Chugai has a full lineup of systems and frameworks for life events and next career steps that are significantly related to career development.
Flexible Career Leave System
Under this system, Chugai employees may take a leave of absence to study or work abroad or to obtain certifications with the objective of acquiring expertise that they can put to use when they return to the company, without interrupting their career. Employees can also take a leave of absence to enhance their knowledge by accompanying their spouses on overseas assignments or study abroad, and take advantage of such experience in their future career.
Alumni System
Through a network of former employees (alumni), people who have left the company can maintain weak ties with the company and obtain opportunities to be rehired if their own needs and the needs of the company align.
External Job Posting System
This is a system by which Chugai employees seeking opportunities to demonstrate their potential may, premised on a guaranteed salary for a certain period of time, be seconded or transferred to external organizations that post job advertisements, enabling the maintenance of ongoing win-win relationships in business-related personal exchanges.
Career Change Support System
This system allows permanent employees of a specific age or with a specific number of years of employment to opt for voluntary retirement at their own request before the mandatory retirement age, and provides them with support for a smooth transition into their next career.
Effects and Results
| 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number of participants in Career Design Program and Career event | 787 | 852 | 828 | 822 |
| Number of consultations with Career Consultation Office | 169 | 183 | 263 | 171 |
| Number of users of Career Consultation Office | 132 | 133 | 205 | 131 |
