Daiwa Securities Group aims to achieve corporate growth by investing in its people and enhancing their value and views "hiring people" as the first step toward this objective. As we want all our employees to work with a high level of loyalty, motivation and engagement, all new college graduates recruited by the Group are brought on as full and regular employees so that newly hired employees will be able to have a sense of trust and pride in the Group, and a sense of solidarity with their colleagues.
Moreover, in order to flexibly accommodate job-seekers, we hire year-round, and new employees may join the company even after April. We are actively recruiting people with diverse backgrounds, while strengthening our mid-career recruitment program, which recruits people with work experience in the industry or other job experience.
With respect to job categories, in addition to the General Career Track that enables employees to challenge themselves through broad-based career development, the Group has established a Broad Regional Career Track, under which employees grow and play active roles across multiple offices within a certain area, as well as a Regional Career Track, which specifies a work location and allows employees to fully demonstrate their capabilities through regionally rooted sales and operational roles. Through these frameworks, we enable diverse working styles and career development that aligned with the individual values of each employee.
With respect to employees under the Broad Regional General Career Track and the Regional General Career Track, we conduct recruitment and assignment based on regional offices, thereby contributing to the provision of employment opportunities in local communities. By creating an environment in which regionally rooted talent can play an active role over the long term, we aim to contribute to the building of trust with local communities and to the sustainable growth of regional economies.
We also focus on attracting people capable of excelling globally in order to develop a global network and strengthen alliance strategies. At overseas offices as well, taking into account local laws and regulations as well as labor practices in each country and region, we recruit and develop local talent and work to establish business operations that are firmly rooted in local communities.
Moreover, Daiwa Securities Group offers internship programs for prospective new graduate applicants to provide opportunities for gaining hands-on experience in the securities business through interaction with employees.

Daiwa Securities Group has formulated and announced its Guidelines for Fair Hiring, comprising three fundamental principles for ensuring fair hiring practices.
We also provide training to employees involved in the hiring process to ensure that they are fully aware of the Guidelines for Fair Hiring.
Further, in line with our human rights policy and in recognition of the fact that discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity must never be tolerated, we do not mandate job applicants to enter their gender in their resumes and do not speak with them based on the assumption that they are sexual majority people in our employment interviews, while also avoiding using categorical expressions on such occasions.