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Comment by Paul Bentham on February 19, 2010 at 10:22am

Fox,

FYI, JET isn't exclusively English teaching positions. I have a friend who is a graphic designer and JET placed him in a job in his field. Opportunities like this are open to people who already have some command of the language. Anyway, best of luck to you!

Comment by Fox Jacobi on February 19, 2010 at 12:05am

Thanks guys for your advice!
Actually I had a job offer before I went to Tokyo last April but, due to the bad economy the company had to layoff almost 100 people. After that I had no job offer anymore. Really bad luck there. Now I am back in Hawaii working as a System Admin/engineer for a SaaS company. I have definitely tried the headhunters in Tokyo but they were little help as there was really no jobs when I went. I know everyone says to take the English teaching route, but i really find that to be the easy way out. If I commit to a company it is because I want to work happily for them and not just use them for a visa or money. Perhaps I am naive. I guess for now I all i can try is the recruiting companies. I am still updating my resume, but I have experience in a very wide scope of IT. じゃ、今から頑張っていきます！

Comment by Steven Caires on February 18, 2010 at 11:51am

Not sure what kind of 職歴 you have, but you may want to try the bilingual headhunters in Tokyo. A friend of mine runs NinePoint - you might want to try him. I know you probably don't want to do the 英会話先生 thing, but it could be a foot in the door for you to get over there.

Comment by Paul Bentham on February 18, 2010 at 11:43am

Fox,

JET seems to be a good foot in the door option for a lot of people. If you haven't already, you should give them a look:

http://www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/JET/

Good luck -- hope things work out for you.

Comment by J. David Beutel on February 18, 2010 at 10:18am

Good luck, Fox! Maybe you should mention what kind of work you're looking for and a link to your resume?

Comment by Fox Jacobi on February 17, 2010 at 8:46pm

僕はアメリカ人なのですが、目標は日本で働く事です。去年の四月に日本に引っ越そうとしたのですが、その時期に日本の経済は凄く不景気で、就職活動するのはやはり無理でしたね。残念ですけど。。。今からまた、日本の会社に申し込みを始めようと思っています。日本に渡航する時、たくさんのリクルートの会社に履歴書を提出しましたがあんまり手伝ってくれなかった。どなたか、経済力のある、また、ワーキングビザの援助が可能な会社をご存知の方がいらっしゃいましたら、是非教えて頂けないでしょうか？

Comment by Bob Berghell on March 9, 2009 at 9:05pm

Here's an interesting web site with night views of all areas of Japan:

http://ww4.tiki.ne.jp/~mmurakami/setoy/map.html