Hello r/movingtojapan,
I’ve been doing some research and I’m a little confused. I’ve been working in customer service and hospitality since 2018. I’m 23 years old with 2 years of college(I dropped out during covid).
I *was* studying history if that matters haha. I love working in the hotel industry, I’ve done housekeeping, front desk, night audit; you name it. I speak fluent English and basic conversational spanish which I’m working on everyday. I’m also currently learning Japanese! If I wanted to apply for this visa, would I have to have a degree? Or is experience in this field sufficient?
Another note, do you guys have any insights on if I was working at an international brand hotel( like marriot) if I would be able to transfer to a marriot in Japan? Providing I can prove I speak Japanese well enough? Just curious if anyone has took a similar route to work in Japan for a little!
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Hello r/movingtojapan,
I’ve been doing some research and I’m a little confused. I’ve been working in customer service and hospitality since 2018. I’m 23 years old with 2 years of college(I dropped out during covid).
I *was* studying history if that matters haha. I love working in the hotel industry, I’ve done housekeeping, front desk, night audit; you name it. I speak fluent English and basic conversational spanish which I’m working on everyday. I’m also currently learning Japanese! If I wanted to apply for this visa, would I have to have a degree? Or is experience in this field sufficient?
Another note, do you guys have any insights on if I was working at an international brand hotel( like marriot) if I would be able to transfer to a marriot in Japan? Providing I can prove I speak Japanese well enough? Just curious if anyone has took a similar route to work in Japan for a little!
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> If I wanted to apply for this visa, would I have to have a degree?
No, a degree is not required. But you do need to sit for a skills test and a language test. The only country where you can take the skills test in English is the Philippines, and they don’t allow tourists to take it.
The important thing to remember is that this program is not aimed at folks living in wealthy western countries. It’s aimed at folks in specific developing southeast asian countries, as a spiritual successor to the technical intern training program (the one often described as the imported slave labour program). It has a hard cap of 5 years (not all categories though).
>do you guys have any insights on if I was working at an international brand hotel( like marriot) if I would be able to transfer to a marriot in Japan?
Talk to your HR, but generally speaking unless you’ve got some specific niche skills I wouldn’t expect them to.