Towards a World Where Your Hard Work is Properly Rewarded: "Career-ka," a Career Proof Platform for Individuals to Accumulate Third-Party Evaluations and Expand Their Growth and Future Potential, Officially Released

Career-ka, a Career Proof Platform for Individuals to Proactively Accumulate Third-Party Evaluations, Officially Released

- Career-ka Structures the Voices of Third Parties into a Weapon for Your Career -

Strategic Marketing Inc. (Headquarters: Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo; Representative Director: Kenji Kuronuma) will officially release "Career-ka (Akashi of Career)" on June 15, 2026. Career-ka is a career proof platform that allows business professionals to proactively obtain and accumulate third-party evaluations, enabling them to update their careers.

"Career-ka" is a service that allows business professionals to proactively obtain and accumulate third-party evaluations from their superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and business partners with whom they work. It enables "self-updates based on third-party evaluations" by objectively understanding strengths and areas for growth that are difficult to notice on one's own, and continuously reviewing one's daily work style and career direction.

Feature 1: Self-Update Your Career Based on Third-Party Evaluations

The protagonist of "Career-ka" is the business professional being evaluated. They proactively request evaluations from their superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and business partners with whom they work daily, continuously accumulating objective third-party evaluations. The collected evaluations are visualized as a reliability score and personality profile, compiled into a personal "Career Passport."

The key point is that this is not a one-time reference check for selection, but an "investment in oneself" built up over time. By regularly receiving feedback from third parties, individuals can further develop their strengths, become aware of challenges, and continuously update themselves.

Furthermore, in situations such as job changes, individuals can voluntarily submit proof of their accumulated third-party evaluations. By presenting objective evaluations from those they have worked with, rather than self-reporting, they can enhance their credibility.

Feature 2: Companies Can Realize Reference Checks at Low Cost and Low Effort

"Career-ka" also offers significant benefits for hiring companies. The utilization can be broadly categorized into the following three types:

- Companies can view the third-party evaluations (Career Passport) submitted by the candidate and use them as a basis for selection. - As "Career-ka Reference," companies can easily conduct reference checks for their candidates during regular recruitment activities. This is lower cost and faster than traditional external依頼型 (outsourced request type). - Various analysis functions can significantly reduce the selection effort required to assess candidates.

Traditional reference checks involve requesting services from external specialized companies or complex coordination, resulting in high costs and significant effort. "Career-ka" helps to increase the satisfaction of the selection process and reduce mismatches after hiring, while suppressing these burdens.

Feature 3: AI Analysis Supports Individual Growth and Corporate Decision-Making

"Career-ka" uses AI to analyze the collected third-party evaluations and generate structured reports of qualitative comments and multifaceted scores. This AI analysis brings different values to individuals and companies respectively.

For Business Professionals - Verbalizing Strengths and Areas for Growth Unnoticed by Oneself

AI deciphers numerous evaluation comments and scores to clearly articulate the individual's strengths, characteristics, and hints for improvement. It allows for an objective understanding of "oneself as seen by others," which is difficult to grasp subjectively, and provides concrete guidelines for self-updates.

For Hiring Companies - Accelerating Candidate Understanding and Significantly Reducing Selection Effort

Instead of reading through a large volume of evaluation information one by one, AI summarizes and analyzes the candidate's personality and strengths. This streamlines the comparison and consideration of multiple candidates, greatly reducing the time and effort required for assessment. It supports convincing hiring decisions based on objective evidence.

Main Functions of "Career-ka"

1. Reliability Score Based on Third-Party Evaluations Visualizes reliability as a score and rank based on 360-degree evaluations from superiors, colleagues, subordinates, and business partners. Evaluates from multiple perspectives such as achievements, collaboration, and trustworthiness.

2. Career Passport A personal career proof page that consolidates profile, work history, evaluation scores, personality assessments, and evaluation comments. Can be shared and submitted at the individual's discretion.

3. Evaluation Request (Self-Reference) Individuals request evaluations from those they have worked with. Evaluators can respond via a link in an email without needing to log in. To prevent fraudulent responses, the evaluation URL is not displayed to the requester.

4. Career-ka Reference (For Companies) Allows hiring companies to easily conduct reference checks for their candidates during regular recruitment activities. Supports setting company-specific additional questions.

5. AI Analysis Report AI analyzes collected evaluations and generates reports on strengths and personality. Supports both individual self-updates and corporate candidate understanding/effort reduction.

6. Certificate (PDF) Issuance Evaluation results can be output as a certificate in PDF format and utilized in various situations.

Service Overview

Service Name

Career-ka

Launch Date

July 7, 2026

Target Audience

Individuals aiming for career advancement / Hiring companies

Pricing

Individual/Corporate members can use from a free plan (paid plans available)

URL

https://career-akashi.jp

*Please see the service site for details on pricing plans.

Company Overview

Company Name

Strategic Marketing Inc.

Representative

Kenji Kuronuma, Representative Director

Location

PMO Kojimachi 4F, 6-2-6 Kojimachi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

Business Activities

Digital marketing support, development and operation of SaaS products

URL

https://www.strategic-m.jp

Inquiries Regarding This Release

Strategic Marketing Inc.

Career-ka Department

Email: [email protected]

Phone: 03-6380-9166

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