I posted here a week or so ago about my interview over zoom with a Japanese design company.
It went well and I didn’t feel much pressure since they were the ones who found me out. It lasted for a full 60 minutes with 3 others including a translator.
In the following days they got back to me and asked if I’d like to be part or full time to which I went with full time as it’s a great opporutinity and might as well go for it.
Here’s the thing that kind of surprised me. They require 5 more interviews and a 2 month wait for decision! Holy moly. Is this the standard for Japanese companies? I’m going to do it of course but I might’ve underestimated the whole process!
I have a question.
They do require a resume for the next interview but I have never written a resume for a Japanese company before. Am I over thinking this and should just make a western style single page resume?
Resumes I’ve made before for the work I do as a 3D artist are very light in that the portfolio is the key that does the talking rather than a detailed resume so I’m quite unsure the best approach.
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As always much help appreciated.
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>Here’s the thing that kind of surprised me. They require 5 more interviews and a 2 month wait for decision! Holy moly. Is this the standard for Japanese companies?
Not really standard, but it does happen (not Japan specific, rather company specific). Some of these interviews are most likely more of a formality to meet with various stakeholders in order to find out if you are a good fit, or just introductions etc.
>They do require a resume for the next interview but I have never written a resume for a Japanese company before. Am I over thinking this and should just make a western style single page resume?
Since you mentioned translator, your resume would be in English, and if in English it should be standard western style. You’d only do a Japanese style resume if it’s in Japanese.
If you’re going be a seishain, it seems standard to make sure they hire someone they need because it’s hard to fire seishains.
5 more interviews is ridiculous. I work for one of the bigger game companies in Japan and all I had were 2 interviews.
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They do require a resume for the next interview but I have never written a resume for a Japanese company before. Am I over thinking this and should just make a western style single page resume?
Just download a resume template and fill it in. The part you probably need to fret over the most is the 志望動機 part or something.
I’d start worrying if they ask you to submit a 職務経歴書