ZenX Advances the 'EQ Business Professional' with AI Analysis × EQ Testing — Supporting Talent Agents with a Scientific Approach

ZenX Inc. (hereinafter "ZenX"), whose mission is "optimally allocating social capital across every industry," has further strengthened its proprietary talent-matching method combining EQ testing and AI analysis, successfully improving the accuracy of the proposals that ZenMatch agents (CAs: career advisers) make to candidates. Agents can now instantly grasp candidates' latent abilities and EQ traits — qualities that are difficult to capture from resumes and work histories alone and that previously tended to depend on each agent's individual experience and intuition. The results are already clear, including improved matching accuracy and shorter lead times to proposing the optimal position for each candidate.

In addition, building on its proprietary concept of the "EQ Business Professional" (trademark registered), which systematizes the importance of EQ (behavioral traits), ZenX is opening ZenTest for Agency, a program for external agents, free of charge in order to spread EQ-informed HR solutions across the entire industry. This is expected to advance EQ- and skills-based matching throughout the recruiting industry.

Background and Overview

As structural talent challenges such as a shrinking workforce and skills mismatches grow more serious, resumes and CVs alone remain insufficient for fully understanding each individual's latent abilities and aptitudes. By using ZenTest, which visualizes EQ (behavioral traits), ZenX reduces the elements of the placement process that depend on individual experience and intuition.

In particular, under the keyword "EQ Business Professional," ZenX has developed a proprietary method that regards EQ as a key to business success, creating an environment in which talent agents can achieve optimal communication and matching for both candidates and companies.

Additionally, as a book symbolizing ZenX's "EQ Business Professional" strategy, "Getting in the Zone: Peak Performance Guided by EQ" has been published by Nikkei BP and is beginning to attract attention in Japan and abroad. The book systematically explains how EQ affects the productivity and performance of individuals and organizations, and its content aligns closely with how ZenX applies its EQ test. Through this book, awareness of the importance of EQ and its potential business applications is deepening among business leaders and HR professionals.

Getting in the Zone: Peak Performance Guided by EQ

Publisher : Nikkei BP / Nikkei Business Publications

Release date : December 6, 2024

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Free Provision to Talent Agencies Planned

ZenX plans to provide ZenTest for Agency free of charge to external talent agents, enabling skills matching powered by AI and EQ analysis with no cost or technical hurdles. Advance applications are currently being accepted, and ZenX ultimately aims to elevate the "EQ Business Professional" into an industry-standard benchmark.

Outlook

Taking On Further Optimization of Social Capital with AI-Powered EQ Testing Technology

ZenX will continue to advance its AI analysis and EQ testing technology, accelerating the optimal allocation of social capital through its businesses, including ZenMatch, ZenTest, and ZenStrategy (BPaaS). We will promote environments in which job seekers with diverse backgrounds and traits can demonstrate their abilities to the fullest, creating a new standard for talent matching.

As a concrete initiative, ZenX will further enhance its knowledge graph by combining the knowledge graph built from conventional resume, CV, and job posting data with elements such as candidates' EQ and the emotional and behavioral traits derived from records of their conversations with CAs.

A knowledge graph is a database that represents knowledge in graph form: entities and events are shown as nodes (points) and the relationships connecting them as edges (lines), making it easier to visualize and understand how pieces of information relate to and combine with one another. By using this enhanced knowledge graph, talent-matching know-how that previously depended on each agent's individual experience and intuition can be systematized and standardized, and matching proposal accuracy is expected to improve.

For companies as well, multifaceted benefits are anticipated: more efficient hiring processes through precise candidate screening and a smoother path to offers; shorter onboarding periods through training and mentor assignments rooted in individual traits; optimized internal talent allocation, including internal transfers and internal job posting processes; and greater employee motivation and engagement through career paths optimized to each person's skills and career aspirations.

■ About ZenX Inc.

ZenX is a next-generation talent firm that uses AI and data analytics to accelerate corporate transformation. Our strength lies in our proprietary cross-matching technology for optimally allocating social capital across industry boundaries. Through this, we deliver optimal solutions to the diverse challenges companies face and drive DX across society as a whole.

We solve the challenges companies face one by one, aiming for greater efficiency and growth across society through AI. ZenX will continue to shape the future through technological innovation and contribute to the sustainable development of companies and society.

■ EQ business professional

Trademark registration overview: Vocational aptitude testing and assessment; testing and assessment of personality, social skills, entrepreneurial disposition, and similar traits; and other vocational aptitude tests and assessments

Trademark registration: Registration No. 6627736

■ Overview of the Fee-Charging Employment Placement Business License

License number (Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare): 13-ユ-315546

Date of license: August 1, 2023

Scope of job categories handled: All job categories, within Japan

■ ZenX Inc. Company Overview

Company name: ZenX Inc.

Representative: Masahiro Goto

Founded: 2019

Address: Cerulean Tower 15F, 26-1 Sakuragaokacho, Shibuya-ku, Tokyo

Business: Development and provision of a cloud-based talent platform

ZenTest service URL : ZenTest - No. 1 Talent Assessment for Hiring

ZenMatch Agent service URL : Maximize Your Value with a Skills-Based Job Change | ZenMatch Agent

ZenMatch Agent careers page URL : DX Career Concierge — ZenMatch Agent Careers | For Talent Looking Beyond the Recruiting Agent Role Toward the Future

ZenStrategy materials request page URL : ZenTest - No. 1 Talent Assessment for Hiring

■ Contact for This Release

ZenX Inc. PR Office: Kaneda, Masuda

Email: cs@zenx.jp