Moving to Japan as a recent engineering graduate

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   **Moving to Japan as a recent engineering graduate**

   Hello,

   I recently graduated from a Swiss university with a master’s in mechanical engineering. Unfortunately due to the brutal job market and lack of EU citizenship I was not able to find a job in Switzerland and will be joining my family in Japan soon (my father works in Japan at the moment).

   I am planning to continue to apply for jobs from Japan. However, I would also like to try to apply for jobs in Japan. However, I don’t have much knowledge about Japanese job market for foreigners.

   I would like to know where is the best place to start looking for engineering roles in Japan. Also, realistically to what extent do foreign graduates have a chance of finding an entry level job in Japan. To what extent is Japanese language proficiency important for recruiters.

   Looking forward to any information and thanks in advance for the help.

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2. If you’re not near fluent, you’re not getting an engineering job in Japan. Automotive industry might be an exception here as Toyota does have some international exchange programs internally.

3. I got an entry-level engineering job in Japan recently and I’d say your Japanese needs to be pretty good. All of the interviews were basically conducted in Japanese and I was asked a lot of questions about the research I did. I don’t think you could get by in the workplace without a strong Japanese background.