Hi everyone, it’s my first time posting on Reddit. So please let me know if I messed up anything. I’m a fall semester fresh graduate from Kyoto. Currently working full time at a hotel due to visa reasons (you know, limited time to find a job). But the whole environment is toxic as hell and basically quite shady about its policies (cheating the fire inspection, forcing employees to quit involuntarily by using shady tactics and basically giving new employees contracts to pay back the visa renewal fee if the employee quit within a year of employment).
My first few days, got blamed of not doing anything during working hours because of them saying “first time training two new staffs the same time.” What do you expect from me? I’m new, I don’t even know how many room in the building. But yeah, basically being bullied by the manager by dumping me to do all night shifts for the whole month.
They also promised at least three months of training, didn’t happen. Got tossed around. The only thing I’m thinking now is leave this place asap. Just wondering is it still possible to call myself a fresh graduate in Japanese terms (since I graduated September 2023 and technically speaking I’m considered to be a April 2024 graduate in Japanese standards) and just restart my job hunting? Thanks
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>Just wondering is it still possible to call myself a fresh graduate in Japanese terms
Well in the first place most 就活 is traditionally done before graduation and all, so you’re already strictly speaking out of the “new grad” hiring phase. But a lot of places won’t necessarily set a hard limit, so you can try and at worst the answer is no. Some places will be more specific than others and will categorically deny you just because they’re trying to bring down the number of applicants. But those places you may well not have had a good chance at anyway.
Otherwise you can look into 第二新卒 but not that’s usually more along the lines of people who’ve worked a year or two and want to change but don’t have sufficient experience to be a very competitive mid-career hire.