I’ve been looking for jobs based in Japan for more than a year now. I get interviews here and there so its not like my skills aren’t in demand but the moment they heard I am not based in Japan they balked and dipped out really quickly during the interview. Pretty sure I informed them I don’t have permission to stay in Japan beforehand too. DAE have this experience? Maybe my job history is not good enough to warrant a visa sponsorship?
More info about me:
* I have a bachelors degree in International marketing
* approximately 7+ years of experience in web and graphic design
* I have worked in a Japanese IT company for 1+ year (not in Japan), broken Japanese but I understood what my Japanese boss was saying, they conversed to me in Japanese while I replied in English. No official JLPT level but I did attempt N2 and was at the cusp of passing the exam lmao.
* I’ve recently started to send in both my English resume and å±¥æ´æ›¸ for job applications in hopes of getting more interest.
Cheers and have a good day/night
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**How long did it take you to land a tech/design job in Japan and secure a visa sponsorship? UI/UX/Web design related**
I’ve been looking for jobs based in Japan for more than a year now. I get interviews here and there so its not like my skills aren’t in demand but the moment they heard I am not based in Japan they balked and dipped out really quickly during the interview. Pretty sure I informed them that I don’t have permission to stay in Japan beforehand too. DAE have this experience? Maybe my job history is not good enough to warrant a visa sponsorship?
More info about me:
* I have a bachelors degree in International marketing
* approximately 7+ years of experience in web and graphic design
* I have worked in a Japanese IT company for 1+ year (not in Japan), broken Japanese but I understood what my Japanese boss was saying, they conversed to me in Japanese while I replied in English. No official JLPT level but I did attempt N2 and was at the cusp of passing the exam lmao.
* I’ve recently started to send in both my English resume and å±¥æ´æ›¸ for job applications in hopes of getting more interest.
Cheers and have a good day/night
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Your degree not being related to design/tech or not having 10(?) years of work experience would mean that you would not be able to secure a visa. Not sure if it translates the same to design, but at least a work visa for engineering position has these requirements.
You would need to find a place that would need you for your international marketing skills as well
Not having N2 would not be a deal breaker if you spoke Japanese really well. But it’s basically the minimum to apply for a Japanese work environment, so you might get filtered out beforehand. Smaller companies also often don’t know how to apply for a visa, so they simply don’t do it. It can also take up to 6 months to be issued.
Maybe look into working holiday visa, if it is available to you. It’s quicker than a work visa. Changing a resident status from one to another is very quick. You would still need to fulfill the educational/experience requirements for a new work visa though.
Have you been able to land new jobs easily where you currently live with your resume/portfolio?
I’m in the same field and once I started seriously looking for a job in Japan, I think it took about 3 months to find a company that wanted to hire and sponsor me and then another 2-3 months to get the visa. This was quite a long time ago now and the field has definitely gotten more saturated.
For me it took around 7 months from the time I started interviewing to landing in Japan.
I was actually accepted by the first company I interviewed with at my college’s job fair. But I had to spent almost half a year in my home country studying Japanese. I took the N3 exam at the end of 2012 and barely failed, but they liked me enough to still send me to Japan. My COE took very little time though, only around 1 month, which was a shock for even my company. They said mine was the fastest COE they ever had. And since they applied for it before the test result came out, I guess they thought might as well not let the COE go to waste lol.
Some info about me back then.
– CS degree
– Pretty much fresh out of college.
– Broken Japanese (I failed N3, what do you expect).
around 5 yoe, probably worse japanese than you, as a web developer it took me around 6 months to get an offer. however, i was in japan already that might have been a slight advantage. the market seems to be pretty competitive atm.
I applied for 2 roles and I accepted on. They waited for me to sort my life out, sponsored my visa, paid for my relocation etc then I was in Japan 8 months later.