{"id":1707,"date":"2016-03-29T17:35:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T08:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/?p=1707"},"modified":"2017-08-01T10:39:06","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T01:39:06","slug":"voices-of-our-alumni-3-do-not-fear-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/other-en\/2016\/03\/29\/1707\/","title":{"rendered":"Voices of our Alumni 3: Do not fear failure"},"content":{"rendered":"

School :<\/strong>\u00a0Graduate School of Information and Telecommunications Studies
\nGender :<\/strong>\u00a0Male
\nCountry :<\/strong>\u00a0China
\nGraduated in\u00a0<\/strong>September 2011
\nJobs offers :<\/strong> Manufacturing Company, Consulting Company<\/p>\n

Reasons for seeking employment in a Japanese corporation<\/strong><\/p>\n

I want to use the knowledge which I have learnt in the graduate school in a Japanese company.<\/p>\n

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  • Currently, Japan companies are aggressively employing foreign students, so there are more chances as a foreign student.<\/li>\n
  • Japan companies have been expanding overseas, so I will have more chances to be active internationally in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n

    Starting period of job-hunting<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I started my preparations for job-hunting from June 2010 and started the actual job-hunting activity from December 2010.<\/p>\n

    Number of industries and companies contacted<\/strong><\/p>\n

    I used the services provided by the WASEDA University Career Center, the CGA program and internet job-hunting services \u201cRecruit-Navi\u201d to collect job-hunting information. I also exchange information with my friends. In addition, I use the free job-hunting support services to correct my entry-sheet and practise interviews.<\/p>\n

    Job-hunting methods<\/strong><\/p>\n

    When looking for companies I mainly focused on those who were actively looking to expand their overseas operations. In order to further tighten my selection, I tried to refrain from applying to companies that had written examinations as a part of their selection process.<\/p>\n

    Challenges faced during job-hunting<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Due to the earthquake, the job-hunting period became much longer, and since I will be graduating from the graduate school in September, I need to do the job-hunting activity and write my thesis at the same time. It is a very hard time for me to do both activities at the same time. On top of that, I failed in the school recommendation process. It almost made me lose all confidence in dealing with interviews.<\/p>\n

    Message to students who are planning to seek employment in Japan<\/strong><\/p>\n

    Do not fear failure. Apply aggressively and challenge yourself at interviews.
    \nIf one puts in the effort, your hard work will pay off!
    \nBe confident as a student of WASEDA University. Never give up.
    \nIf you are a student who will graduate in September, it is ideal to start preparing for your research or zemi (coursework) as early as possible.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    School :\u00a0Graduate School of Information and Telecommunications Studies Gender :\u00a0Male Country :\u00a0China Graduated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[135],"class_list":["post-1707","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\/1707","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=1707"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1710,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1707\/revisions\/1710"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/career\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}