PAULH
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Posts: 4672
Location: Western Japan
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 Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 5:47 am Post subject: Re: Finding Work: Help Needed |
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| Greenislander wrote: |
| Hello, I am considering travelling to Japan soon. Is it good to get sponsored first if you can? If I just "turn up" it will be on a 90 day visitor visa. Is it still possible to find a good teaching job as a visitor? (the idea it being somewhat easier looking for work in Japan rather than on the web). I have heard that I would have to leave Japan and re-enter if a sponsored job offer was made. Does this happen on a regular basis? Your advice would be appreciated. Thank you. |
If you get a job outside the country and your employer agrees to sponsor you, they will arrange your schedule, arrange an apartment and you will walk into a job almost straight off the plane. Expect your work visa to take 8-12 weeks to get processed. In that time you can not get on the plane or work in Japan until you get your visa from the embassy. Only a few language schools will sponsor you while you are living outside the country and you really have no choice in where you get sent.
If you come on a tourist visa legally you can not work, or even look for a job. You will have to come here, find a place to live, attend interviews, find your way around a foreign, non-English speaking large city and negotiate trains and transport and attend interviews. You have to support and feed yourself for up to 3 months until you find a job and see a pay check. You may not get paid a salary for up to 6 weeks after arriving in the country. I would make sure that you come with enough money to support yourself for 2 months with no income, I would say about US$2000-3000 in cash.
Its not really easier to find a job coming on a tourist visa as you have no job to start with, there may be no immediate openingsin the area you want to work, and you are starting from scratch. Once you get a sponsor you may have to go to Korea to change your tourist visa to a work visa. Those who have a tourist visa often have no choice to leave the country but in some cases tourist visas can be changed in Japan, depending on the discretion of the immigration office. If they say you have to leave the country you have to leave, simple as that. |
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