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[slypeep]

My question to the masses yearning to type is this. Should I accept my posting to the multimedia center in Osaka with Nova or start back at square two and go to Toronto (from Detroit) and interview with ECC?

Also I am of the opinion that telling Nova to go ahead and start the work visa process on my behalf, then getting hired by ECC and have them also start on a visa would be a bad thing which might completely gum up the works all together. Agree?

The deadline for Nova getting my paperwork is Feb. 20 which is the same date ECC wants to hear from me by. So, I got that going for me too.

[Glenski]

You haven't said when your ECC interview is, but from the sound of things, it is anywhere from now to the 20th.

Knowing nothing else about your situation, I can only recommend taking the ECC interview and seeing how you feel about them. You can always tell NOVA you have changed your mind, and they'll simply stop the visa paperwork. You won't gum up the works by having ECC restart the proceedings.

[slypeep]

You surmised correctly, The ECC interview just has to be scheduled by the 20th and would be set up soon after.

[BradS]

Get the VISA from Nova, then quit! You'll still have your Japan access!

[bornslippy1981]

I agree with the last poster. Get the visa sponsored by Nova, and spend the next few months until you leave researching other companies. It's something I didn't consider prior to leaving about a year ago, but only recently have gotten more serious about. This is also because my experience with Nova hasn't been nearly as bad as what I had been reading for the months prior to leaving.
You can find tons of information about other jobs on sites like this, and the many other forums. I have found this site to be the most useful because for the most part people aren't using it to attack each other.
Also, set aside time to take your passport to the Japanese Consulate in the RenCen. I had mine shipped by FedEx, but a week later it was sitting in some warehouse in Sterling Heights. It was only a week before I was leaving, and I hadn't received my stamp. Either take it yourself, or don't ship via FedEx. From what I remember, I got everything processed in about two days after explaining the situation to the consulate office.
Sorry if most people didn't understand that last paragraph. The OP is also from Detroit.

[slypeep]

Like a virgin boy on prom night or like a push pin, well anytime, I have done a fair amount of poking around on boards such as this (gaijinpot, letsjapan) and realize the old "Show and go" option is available to me. I would be happy to take my posting with Nova and find something better when I get to Osake, or maybe enjoy the posting with Nova, get promoted, find a japanese wife, have ten kids and then down the road kill myself. The only part of my future that is in a straight line right now is the going to Japan part.

So, that being said and in regard to the show and go option. From everything I have heard getting an apartment in Japan is, shall we say "a real kick in the pisser" so my line of thinking is this: If I have a chance to get a job with ECC, which from the poking I think I will enjoy better, I should try to get that job while in the States rather than jumping to ECC when I get to Japan and getting evicted from my apartment.

Now this question was answered succinctly and quickly but I continue to pose it: If I have Nova start on my work visa, then tell them to stop working on my work visa should ECC offer me a position, will the Japanese Consulate and or Japanese Immigration turn up their noses at my application when it comes around the second time.

So perhaps I may have made this query more convoluted than before but ...

Also thanks to the big homey from the D for the tips on the hands-on visa process, I will be sure to schlep down to the Ren Cen.

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[LHanks]

This may help...
www.teachinjapan.com

Good Luck!