The Process of Job Hunting

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1. This is a copy of your post for archive/search purposes.

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   **The Process of Job Hunting**

   Hello everyone! Im about to graduate college with some teaching certifications and want to start looking at English teaching jobs in Japan. I’d say that I can speak at a conversational level of Japanese, and I’ll have an English linguistics major and TESOL certificate when I graduate.

   I talked to my Japanese professors and they told me to find a company that will sponsor me and give me a visa but it seems like most places want me living in Japan already.

   I’m gonna apply to JET when the applications open but I want to find something else in the meantime. Any advice on where to start and what to look for?

   Any additional general advice?

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2. r/teachinginjapan.

   Just so you know, you don’t need any of these certificates or whatever to “teach” English here. You just need to be a native speaker with a pulse and have a degree (immigration requirements). If you don’t need a work visa, just having a pulse is enough.

   Be prepared to be paid only enough to survive on and to have no career prospects whatsoever (JET/dispatch ALT/ Eikaiwa is not a career).

   If you can, try to aim for university teaching as they provide *somewhat* better quality of life.