Hi all
We have just moved to Japan from Australia. I’m here on a spouse visa with my husband. I speak some Japanese around an N3 level, I was wondering how much recruiters care about my language level?
I’d prefer a job where I could mainly use English. I have experience as a teacher in Australia but also have some experience in event management. Any advice is very appreciated, also if anyone has recs for recruiters let me know.
PS. Did a search of the sub but haven’t found any leads yet.
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There probably aren’t many jobs out there for you except English teaching based on what you’ve shared about your background, but that particular job wouldn’t require Japanese so that’s for sure an option for you
There are loads of factory jobs where you can work on your Japanese and done pay alright as well!
Depends on the line of work.
English teacher, factory worker, skilled programmer, etc. doesn’t require much or any at all, depending on the company.
If you want a more standard job, however, then N2 is the general starting line.
You can ask yourself: How important is English to Australian?
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Back to your question, first, you can take a look at this site
[https://jp.indeed.com/jobs?q=english+teacher&l=&from=searchOnHP&vjk=b17b5f01eff22eb1&advn=3884720832110787](https://jp.indeed.com/jobs?q=english+teacher&l=&from=searchOnHP&vjk=b17b5f01eff22eb1&advn=3884720832110787)
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If you really have hard time learning Japanese, I suggest staying in Tokyo, because countryside is not THAT friendly to people speaking poor Japanese.
At N3, you’re basically going to be limited to teaching English or working some factory job where you don’t need to interact with others / customers etc, or where lack of Japanese skills wouldn’t put you or others in danger.
If you spoke English at an N3 level back home – what jobs would you be able to do?
Even if you have Japanese probably nothing to replace an Aus income. Without Japanese. Nothing really except like teaching or super menial jobs
based on my experience if you have N2 and can normally speak that is good enough. N3 falls a bit short. But depends on the company.
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Where are you based?
You can get at least some convenience store arubaito besides teaching English
Recruitment is a possibility worth exploring.
It is advantageous to most management and above jobs. Individual contributor jobs, not so much.
You’re gonna need more Japanese and/orIT skills. I’ve been talking with various recruiters. I’ve been turned down by many simply because I don’t speak at least N2 Japanese.
English speaker recruiters tend to only recruit for tech and specialized skills