I want to work and live in Japan, and I already know I cannot go via JET Programme... because i am mexican and I only speak spanish and english
I have a perfect TOEFL (english certification) score, and a PhD in Sociology... Where can I check the lists of available jobs for people with my profile?
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Pass the N1 and you can get in on a highly skilled worker visa
This is true
It doesn't change the salaries though, they offered me 7M jpy for a senior engineer position, I laughed in their face and stayed in my home country.
Try and get a student visa, uni is pretty affordable and there will be more resources/time for job hunting available compared to English teaching
Nip here. You kinda fricked up with your choice in PHD here, I don't know what you could really do with sociology. Your first step would be to get atleast an N2 and some actual marketable skill.
Do you have any work experience?
This is also a good but expensive choice. Do your master here then find a job while you're in uni.
>Do you have any work experience?
Only english&spanish call center jobs. Both customer service and sales. I performed really well in both, specially sales.
>Do your master here then find a job while you're in uni
I already have a Masters in Education. Does that count for anything?
To be honest without being a native speaker from a native speaking country if they hire you at all they will pay you third world country salary. That's why most people don't settle for it anymore, it's an adventure in your 20s but not a career, only desperate people accept the abysmal pay.
I am from a native english country and speak natively but at my young age studying abroad without a degree I could not get hired either, I didn't even apply and I found work freelancing while studying. Then I took a break from school and while already in the country said I was studying or had a degree already and was not questioned, and I got freelance work without being tied to a contract. 500 a week for 8 hours, it's really good. Then I found my own jobs and made more.
I guess I am saying you have to find your own non traditional way because the world is not easy
>if they hire you at all they will pay you third world country salary
That's okay. As long as it is enough to pay for rent, food and transportation in Japan, preferably in Tokyo, I don't mind any of the downsides, including the seemingly small pay... Japan is a first-world country, and pretty much every single one of its cities is safer, cleaner and more efficient than 90% of Latin American cities... I already am very poor and unhappy and miserable in my home country, so getting to experience life in a country way higher than mine in every Human Development Index ranking sounds like a blessing to me.
Would you consider graphic design (BA and 6 years experience) something to build on? I'm in a similar boat to OP
I can't speak for him, but I've fetishized Japan to a point where I no longer care. Get me that sweet karoshi, let me sleep on the chairs, pee on me while I lay drunk in the gutter, this is just like my doujins anyway
Quantitative-focused Sociology PhDs are highly employable as long as they know statistics and can program, typically Python or R.
>Quantitative-focused Sociology PhDs are highly employable
Yeah right... Where?
They work as data scientists, statisticians, programmers, research scientists, etc.
Source: Literally me even though my PhD is in a different social science field. You're way too focused on just the name of the degree and unable to realize that the skillsets that people pick up in PhD programs varies widely, and sociology PhDs that learned advance statistics or how to program are highly sought after. My university had an applied masters degree in statistics that PhD students could do along the way to earning their PhD, and there were plenty of sociology students that completed that program like I did.
>data scientists, statisticians, programmers, research scientist
Every sociologist I've ever met was a hairy, messy and smelly hippie who didn't know anything about anything that wasn't
>"le capitalism bad!"
>"Karl Marx's theory on class conflict essentially says that... le capitalism bad, let's abolish private property!"
None of them has a job in data sciences, programming or any of the 4 professions you mentioned above, by the way
Same goes for most philosophy students and graduates I've met. Some are really interesting, well-read and articulated speakers, I'll socialsciencesgays that.
Sounds like you haven't any sociologists at all, maybe some first year sociology undergrads. What a rediculous and stupid statement.
Triggered marxist detected!
You're obviously a kid that doesn't know shit about shit. Take a look at the backgrounds of a bunch of computational social scientists in both government and industry. Fellowships like this also exist that social science PhDs partake in to transition from academia to industry: https://insightfellows.com/data-science
>They work as data scientists, statisticians, programmers, research scientists, etc.
That sounds like a great idea, anon! I did learn a lot about statistical interpretation in college. I will start searching for jobs related to stats in Japan immediately. Thank you for your insights!
If you have success please follow up here. I have CS background but I like ML/stats monkey work a little bit more than generic code monkey work. Would not mind at all if I had some dual data engineer/ML/stats role
My undergrad at 横国 was under $2.5k/year, and the Japanese government is extra thirsty for people to get in their universities. When I was leaving, you could even skip the entrance exam with just an English essay lol. Just get an east masters and job hunt while doing it
How much time out of your day did that eat up? Sounds like language school is a lot more expensive, but it's only like 4 hours a day I think.
Use your latin charm to seduce a Japanese woman, marry her and move to Japan
Sorry but I gotta just clear the air here….can non-white people just stay out of asia? You’re not compatible with Asians or their society or their beauty standards. They like pale skin and calm quiet serenity.
These threads make my lip curl in contempt. Stay out please.
My skin is probably whiter than yours, Cletus-Chang Rodriguez-Mbungu
It’s not about just your skin color, but your loud need to talk
White people can stay out too, rat.
>can non-white
might as well change that to non-yellow like you can stay out of asia
this but unironically. Paco Taco should stay put and keep making delicious tacos
lol, like half the English teachers in Japan now are Flips who speak call center English
>living/working in japan
>scouted by some headhunting company for a job i'm actually interested in
>apply, have an interview or two but don't end up getting the position
>recruiter says he'll have some more positions for me
>completely drops off the face of the planet and never contacts me again
is this normal?
Yes. They can cut you off if they don't think you have any potential. Just move on to a different recruiting company.
any particular companies you recommend or is this just like a general recruiting thing?
It's a general recruiting thing. As for recommendation, it depends on what field you're working in since each recruiting company will have different connections/clients.
You're monolingual, aren't you? Or you speak Japanese but your experience is still very junior. The way the job market here works is, promising employees basically get snatched up immediately because there are literally more openings than applicants.
I've got N2 (which certainly doesn't go far these days). I'm probably just a poor interviewer.
Given the Japanese work culture and how miserable people are... why would you want to live and work in Japan doing an office job?
Unless you're working for yourself or happen to work for a company that's very unique and has a good work/life balance, I can't really see the attraction.
I used to do a lot of work with Sony and whilst I get that it has a very corporate culture, the foreigners that worked for them in Japan would rarely socialise with their Japanese colleagues outside of work and were isolated, despite being fluent in Japanese and some having lived there for many years.
I enjoy visiting Japan, but I don't really see the attraction of living there. But maybe someone already working and living there can shed some light on what it's really like?
Would you really be so desperate as to subject yourself to teaching tho? You’ll end up hating it. Better off not going and just day dreaming about the place versus having an experience that ruins it all for you
>PhD in Sociology
I just spent less than ten minutes Googling and saw openings for sociology faculty at both Sophia U (posh Christian private university, teaches many courses in English) and Meiji University. The Meiji position description is all in Japanese, but Sophia appears to be open to foreign profs. Maybe you could set the bar slightly higher than teaching English, since you already bothered to get a doctorate?
Since it seems a bit mad to me to have a PhD and be willing to do anything but teach or do research, I would say the job boards at the various Japanese universities.
This. Only based post itt. good luck OP! Good luck everybody! Banzai!
Frick you, Black person
Man, I wish all of the koreacels could get over the WW2 associations and japan could use the rising sun flag as their main
Its such a kino design, I dont care if they used every chinkette in asia as a pleasure slave, I want it back
Paco Paco Paco
Fetch me sum tacuitos
Forget bout Nihon to
You will never make it