I have been talking with a couple of Japanese recruiters and most of them 満場一致(thats a new word i learned last week haha and it means unanimously) told me that Japanese companies wouldn’t hire a foreigner if they do not have N1 and that N2 wouldn’t suffice. Even my company included N1 as a hiring criteria (it was N2 when I joined)
My question: Is this because the industry is not in a good shape and they just wanna filter out as much as they can or is something else going on?
Edit: the industry I am talking about is IT(software development)
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