{"id":1705,"date":"2016-03-29T17:33:35","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T08:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/?p=1705"},"modified":"2017-08-01T10:33:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T01:33:49","slug":"voices-of-our-alumni-2-believing-in-yourself-is-the-most-important-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/other-en\/2016\/03\/29\/1705\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices of our Alumni 2: Believing in Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>School :<\/strong>\u00a0School of Human Sciences<br \/>\n<strong>Gender :<\/strong>\u00a0Female<br \/>\n<strong>Country :<\/strong>\u00a0Republic of Korea<br \/>\n<strong>Graduated in<\/strong> March 2012<br \/>\n<strong>Jobs offers :<\/strong> Specialized Trading Company, Telecommunications<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reasons for seeking employment in a Japanese corporation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I decided to work at a Japanese company because I thought it would be a good chance for someone like me who wants to work in an international environment. Moreover, I want to utilize my knowledge that I have learnt in Japan.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Starting period of job-hunting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I started to gather information on careers in November, and I had attended job recruitment events and applied for companies since February.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Number of industries and companies contacted<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I applied to about 15 companies including apparel companies, trading companies, IT firms, food processing companies, cosmetics manufacturing companies and airlines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Job-hunting methods<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>First of all, I signed up on job search websites, and gathered information on careers that I was interested in. Besides, I participated in various recruitment events through associations where they helped international students find a job. I thought it is important to get used to a job interview and a group discussion, so not only did I attend as many interview seminars held in school as possible, I also practiced interviews with my friends.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Challenges faced during job-hunting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I put my best effort on self-analysis. Because I thought if I did not know myself well, I could not write a well-written entry sheet, nor could I make a good impression at a job interview, so I spent the longest time in analyzing myself.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Message to students who are planning to seek employment in Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I think believing in yourself is the most important thing when you are job-hunting. Sometimes you would get rejected and feel hurt. However, if you do not give up and keep a positive and confident attitude no matter what happens, I believe you will eventually get the job you want.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>School :\u00a0School of Human Sciences Gender :\u00a0Female Country :\u00a0Republic of Korea Graduated in March 2012 Jobs off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":712,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-1705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-en","tag-voice-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1709,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1705\/revisions\/1709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}