Like the title says,
What is a person to do after having four online interviews, researched the company, asked great questions (the recruiters mentioned about the questions), and having five years of experience in the industry.
I’ve worked in Japan and I know what it’s like living there, but it’s a challenge getting back there for work with the borders being opened.
It seems that my options are running out since most of the jobs require the applicant to be in Japan.
You may or may not reply to this, but…
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You have a few choices.
You can keep searching and applying for these jobs from overseas.
You can temporarily move to Japan to look for work (requires some extra effort, not always possible for everyone). Might involve taking a job that’s not your ideal choice.
You can look for work elsewhere.
Unfortunately rejection is a common part of job hunting, not just in the English teaching industry in Japan but everywhere. It sucks but you have to deal with the reality. Odds are eventually you’ll find a job, but it might not be your ideal one right away.
At the minute it’s mainly a backlog of applications… a lot of companies are just clearing their applications from corona… honestly, wait six months and try again… probably not what you want to hear… but that’s just my opinion living and working here…
Not living here is a huge set back for you.
If you were an employer, you wouldn’t hire you either if you were living elsewhere.
I think there is a lot of people wanting to come to Japan to work after the country opened up. It is hiring season, so probably the best time to be looking for a job. My company has openings, so I’m sure other schools are looking to hire now. I left and came back to Japan several times and got a job every time while I was overseas. I think you just need to keep applying.
Try try again, 6 months later
Did the interviews go well?
a crazy amount of people trying to come to japan post-covid. its just an issue of supply being way higher than demand. try again next year or the year after and it shouldnt be as much of an issue.
As someone else has said, if you don’t live in Japan, that’s a problem. Companies will be much more interested in someone who is already living here.
On another note, though, was this for an English teaching position?
I don’t mean to sound like an asshole, but I could see them hiring a candidate with less experience if they are a native speaker or speak at a perfect native level – depending on the recruiter, that may be the number one priority.
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Can you speak Japanese? If no or at a lower level, attend language school in Japan and then look for a job in your spare time.
If at a higher level, you can go to a trade school and then look for a job in your spare time.
I recently just got hired for another teaching job that’ll let me finish my current contract so I got pretty lucky.
When you did your interviews did you also schedule follow up interviews? I ask because if an interview really did go well, you’ll end up doing 2 or 3 interviews with maybe a demo lesson as well. It also depends on where you’re applying to imo. If you’re applying with a big company that has a ton of other applicants it’ll be tougher for sure.
If you’d like I can tell you what happened with some of my other interviews and such.