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vallillo1983 · Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 194

Hey! I was looking for some advice! I feel like I am being messed about by my potential employer (well it's a big chain so not surprised!) and I'm thinking if they're being like this now! What the foook are they gonna be like later on! So I have 700000Yen in savings, which I've saved for moving and setting up in Japan etc and I am wondering, would it be wise to just move on my own and look for a job once in Tokyo?(I have friends there!) Will it be easy finding work 'on the spot' even if it was for a NOVA school, just as long as I am in Tokyo I dnt care who I work for! Also, what would happen about my visa? Is it possible to get one from inside the country!? Or am I better off going with the agency and being placed in Gunma or Saitama?

Cheers guys!

Glenski · Joined: 15 Jan 2003 Posts: 12844 Location: Hokkaido, JAPAN

val,
I think you are in Shikoku now, right?

If you are already employed, you have a work visa, which is good until it expires no matter who is your employer. At that point, you need another employer to help you renew the visa. Pretty simple procedure.

azarashi sushi · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 562 Location: Shinjuku

Hi Vallillo,

What exactly is the problem? In what way do you feel you are being messed around? What time of year are you thinking of coming?

vallillo1983 · Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 194

I am coming in the summer, not in Japan already! I am in London, the agency does not know if It's coming or going,I am told one thing and then the other! Is it hard finding work on arrival? Is it reccomoended!?

allyismycopilot · Joined: 30 Nov 2005 Posts: 32 Location: Tsuyama-Shi

Getting work on arrival is dependent upon your credentials and desire. If you have the credentials (University Degree) and will put in the leg work to find a position.

As for the Visa if you found someone to sponsor it you would have to fly out of the country (Korea is the popular choice)...

How has the company you were picked up by jerked you around? Are they going to sponsor your Visa and get you set up?

vallillo1983 · Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 194

Hey, I have a degree in TESOL and a CELTA! They are messing me about as my bf lives in Shijunku and I will be living with him and shane have told me that my school will be located in a surronding region like Chiba etc and not in central Tokyo like they said at the interview! So do i take the job and travel to work everyday or come to Tokyo, move in with my bf and then look for work?

PLZ HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

vallillo1983 · Joined: 07 Apr 2005 Posts: 194

are there many employers in Tokyo that will sponser me for a visa and offer me a job on the spot? what would the visa process be like if I applied for it after finding an empolyer in Japan?

The trouble is I have a degree in TESOL and a CELTA! They are messing me about as my bf lives in Shijunku and I will be living with him and shane have told me that my school will be located in a surronding region like Chiba etc and not in central Tokyo like they said at the interview! So do i take the job and travel to work everyday or come to Tokyo, move in with my bf and then look for work?

I thought of applying to NOVA as they have many branches in Tokyo, but they said they could not gaurentee I would be placed there and of I was they could not say in would be in central Tokyo, so surely if I just walked into a local branch near where i will be living they will more likely offer me work!!

what do you think?

angrysoba · Joined: 20 Jan 2006 Posts: 446 Location: Kansai, Japan

NOVA don't hire in their branches. They don't always hire domestically either so you cannot be sure of getting employment with them if you come to Japan. If you turn up at the branch it is unlikely anyone there will be able to help you and you'll probably just be given a business card or contact details for some big cheese.

azarashi sushi · Joined: 23 Jan 2003 Posts: 562 Location: Shinjuku

Hi Vallillo,

A couple of weeks ago, you couldn't decide between Taiwan, Hong Kong or Japan but now suddenly you have a boyfriend in Shinjuku and you want to live together!!!!!!!!!! How funny!!!!!

As to the job situation...

Now, how does that saying go... Something about a bird in Chiba being worth two in Tochigi.... or something like that.

Summer isn't a great time to look for a job especially if you're concentrating your search on one small area. And remember, you don't have a visa yet or any Japan experience (or any experience at all for that matter). 700 000 yen is a lot of money to blow looking for a job when you already have one lined up. I'd say your chances of finding an employer that will sponsor you in central Tokyo in summer are slim. Not impossible of course.... but think of all the other things you could do with 700 000 yen! It's a gamble... Are you prepared to spend all your money and still not find anything?

Your best bet is to contact NOVA/AEON etc and ask what the deal with getting hired domestically is. You never know.

Brooks · Joined: 16 Jan 2003 Posts: 1369 Location: Sagamihara

if you want to be closer to your boyfriend, being placed in Saitama or Kanagawa would not be so bad, because getting to Shinjuku from there is not too complicated.

PAULH · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Posts: 4672 Location: Western Japan