Hi guys,
I’m writing this hoping that there’s someone around here who was in the same situation before and maybe can share some info on how/if they succeeded in getting a job cause tbh I’m somewhat discouraged atm.
I’m a 23-year-old Romanian guy with 0 experience as a teacher except that one time I taught Russian to some random American dude for a couple of months when I was a student.
My bachelor’s degree is in foreign languages (Polish and Russian) but I got no teaching certification nor 12 years of English education.
For the past 3 years I’ve been working in multinational companies on roles that required a business level of English, but I’m not sure if that would help me whatsoever in this situation. I also have a C1 Cambridge certificate which I got like 5 years ago and if I were to take it again today I’d most likely get a C2 I guess.
Since last year when I went to Japan to travel and visit some Japanese friends I really liked the country and I want to find a way to move there, but it turns out to be way more difficult than I anticipated. I’m learning Japanese for roughly over a year now and I’m quite positive that I’ll get the N4 in December. Do you think that would somehow boost my chances?
Also, I’ve read some posts around here recommending GABA as they’ve been hiring some Eastern European people and I just did that but I got a negative answer which looks like this:
>The applicant must have completed at least a Bachelor’s level of education with English being the medium of tuition prior to submitting an application to Gaba OR at least 3 years of full-time English language teaching experience. Should you become a successful candidate for the position, the Immigration Bureau of Japan will request for submission of a copy of your university diploma OR proof of work experience for the visa application.
So this being said, from what I understand the 3/12 years thing is a must in order to get the visa sponsorship. Does this mean there’s no way a company can sponsor me without fulfilling one of those 2 requirements? I’m really curious about this cause it would save me some time I guess so I hope there’s some people who could give me some advice.
For more context (cause there must be someone reading this who switched from teaching to web development or is planning to) I’m doing this just to get a visa and then find a web developer job. I’m a self-taught but they don’t really sponsor juniors from what I see and this teaching stuff might be a way for me but again this Gaba response got me thinking I got no real change whatsoever. Any thoughts?
Also last thing, I’ll be in Japan in December as a tourist, do you think an in-person interview would be any different or give me at least a small advantage?
Anyways thank you for getting this far and I’m very sorry for the long post or if it’s dumb af and makes no sense, I’m at a loss right now and any advice is welcome.
by No_Blacksmith7499