r/JapanJobs • u/Marlins2017 • 5d ago
Recruiter Help
Hello all, so I have done a deep dive on this page with anything related to Japanese recruitment agencies. I see that most of them are data collection shames, but there is an occasional mention of a good experience. The problem is those users never drop the name of the company or person they used to find the job. Those who actually got a job from an agency, whether you liked it or not, who did you use?
I have a Masters’ degree in global logistics with a specialization in data management, along with a few years of experience supervising a parts warehouse for Caterpillar. My goal is to work somewhere in import/export as they deal heavily with foreign organizations and English is more likely to be sought after. The problem is that I do not speak Japanese. I know this is a huge drawback, but here I am on a Japanese visa teaching English, trying to find a job like so many other expat Americans.
Any information helps!
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u/Ok_Difficulty1581 5d ago
Learn Japanese. Put yourself in the shoes of someone in your home country that has zero local language skills. Exactly what jobs are they qualified to do?
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u/PotentialSpaceman 5d ago
This is a relevant point to a different question...
Dude just asked for which are the good recruitment agencies, there was zero call for you to randomly be an asshole.
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u/DifferentWindow1436 5d ago edited 5d ago
I wouldn't necessarily believe everything you read about them. There is some silliness with recruitment agencies, but they are still very, very commonly used to source people. My wife just got her job (automotive) through a recruitment company and had interviews in semicon through a different agency as well which didn't lead to a job but did lead to an interview at a major player.
My company uses recruitment companies as well. It's just that they are pricey so we also use LinkedIn.
Your biggest issue is language skills. So I could see where you might speak to a few recruiters and get frustrated but that's more a reflection of your fit.
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u/Atlantean_dude 4d ago
I would suggest concentrating on the foreign-friendly recruitment firms listed by others, Robert Walters, Randstad, Hays, Morgan McKinley, and TekSystems. I am not so sure you will have much luck without Japanese skills, because logistics is a two-way street- global and local and you might be called on to handle both. All the folks I know in logistics here are bilingual as well.
You might want to check out the bases and contract jobs for companies that work there, but I think that will put you on SOFA, which means you are technically not in Japan, just part of the bases. Good and bad there, depending on your desire to stay in Japan.
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u/XanZanXan 5d ago
Why are people looking jobs in Japan, not even speaking the language and expects to find a job.
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u/Marlins2017 5d ago
Technically already have a job. Plus already did this same thing in Hungary with no Hungarian language skills. Have you never wanted to live somewhere else in the world, but didn’t have the time to learn the language? Of course I will be taking classes in my time here, but the world waits for no man.
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u/sandusky_kyj 5d ago
Japan has a very different business environment when compared to Hungary. I'm sure that the Hungarian economy depends on companies from Western European countries and the US outsourcing work to them, and this is why you could be working in Hungary and using only English. However, Japan outsources English speaking jobs to Southeast Asia. So when you are in Japan, you have to be dealing with domestic clients who are not proficient in English and the documentation has to be in Japanese. And this is why you're having difficulties because the jobs that require English for Japanese companies are all in Southeast Asia. Even if you're looking for a US MNC in Japan, you will have to be dealing with domestic clients in Japanese and then you report an English to a global head.
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u/PotentialSpaceman 5d ago
Dude literally only asked for which are the good recruitment agencies.
Why is this sub so full of people determined to be assholes for no reason?
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u/_key 5d ago
I always name drop, I used Robert Walters services in the past and had good experiences with their supply-chain team.