School: School of Advanced Science and Engineering<\/p>\n
Gender: Male<\/p>\n
Country: Republic of Korea<\/p>\n
Graduated in March 2015 \/ Started Work from April 2015<\/p>\n
Job Offers: Trading Company<\/p>\n
Reasons for working in Japan<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
I actually have lived in Japan for a long time, but it was not a big matter whether I could remain in Japan or not when I started my job-hunting. If there is a job I want to do, it could be okay for me no matter what country I would live in. I tried to think about what I really wanted to do and my future deeply, and realized the work that I wanted to do was in sogo-shosha (trading company), a peculiar industry that is active only in Japan. That is the reason why I decided to find a job in Japan.<\/p>\n
I have been interested in how to expand the range of use of the good Japanese products and technologies. As a result of some research, I have found out that sogo-shosha offer such services, so I chose to pursue my career by working at sogo-shosha in Japan.<\/p>\n
Number of industries and companies approached<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
5 sogo-shosha (general trading), 2 senmon-shosha (specialized trading), and 2 IT companies.<\/p>\n
Starting and ending period(s) to job-hunting in Japan<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
Preparations for Tests (SPI, etc.): January 2014<\/p>\n
Submission of Entry Sheet and Interviews: February \u2013 April 2014<\/p>\n
Ways\/ Methods of job-hunting <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
I used the newspaper and the internet. The information I could get from friends and seniors were also helpful.<\/p>\n
Challenges (difficulties) faced during job-hunting<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
I consciously tried to introduce myself without exaggeration during the interview.<\/p>\n
Message to international students who plan to job-hunt in Japan<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n
You should not take the job-hunting in Japan easily because you are not Japanese. The most impressive thing I felt was that there are no discrimination between Japanese and non-Japanese in assessment. Sometimes I hear that there are some companies which apply a different appraisal standard for foreign students, but the companies which tests I took demanded the same or higher level of Japanese in all processes. It is necessary to prepare for what you are demanded, like Japanese, English, high conversation skill, among others.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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