BeStyle Smart Career Co., Ltd. (Headquarters: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo; President and CEO: Ichiro Masumura), a company that provides staffing and recruitment services aiming to solve labor shortages for businesses and realize diverse working styles for workers within the BeStyle Group, is pleased to announce that its service "Neighbor Care Career," which handles the medical and nursing care fields, has surpassed 200 active dispatch staff. Neighbor Care Career addresses the chronic labor shortage in the medical and nursing care fields by proposing the utilization of the potential workforce, primarily housewives, including both experienced and inexperienced individuals, in conjunction with the introduction of task shifting. We provide staffing and recruitment services that enable this. As a result of serving a wide range of clients, we have achieved the early milestone of 200 active staff. ■ Social Background Japan is currently facing the "2025 Problem" and is also looking ahead to the "2040 Problem." The demand for medical and nursing care professionals is continuously expanding due to the aging population. Consequently, the active job opening ratio in the medical and nursing care fields has consistently remained at an overwhelming excess of demand, at 3-4 times (Note 1). Against this backdrop, our company, with its purpose of "Creating value that adapts to the times," has been working to solve the recruitment challenges of medical and nursing care providers by offering and promoting the "Neighbor Care Career" service. Moving forward, we will leverage the power of our job matching platform "Shufu JOB" to attract housewives and further promote our services. Note 1: Calculated from data such as the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare's "General Employment Placement Situation." ■ "Neighbor Care" Service Overview and Three Features "Neighbor Care" is a dispatch service focused on "retention and career support," looking not only at matching personnel but also at their long-t