Hi all,
My GF has received an opportunity to work in Japan and we are currently looking whether to accept here. Situation in short: European, early 30s, GF is data scientist and I am a junior partner at a strategy consulting firm.
We would like to have another adventure before we settle down. We both have been to Japan a lot (10-15 times over the last 8 or so years for both vacation and work) but speak no Japanese except for basic sentences. She received an option for a decent job in Japan (18 million yen salary) with her current employer.
We are considering whether to go for this and the main question is whether I could get a job there. Here in Europe I have the highest income by far and also the most intense career. I'd be happy to take a short break but would not want to not work for an extended period.
The types of jobs I would typically go for here in Europe are typically not advertised – often offered through connections (which I don't have in Japan) or via headhunters. My concern is that equivalent jobs in Japan would require Japanese language skills which I don't have so I'd like to look at my options.
Are there any specific headhunters for these kind of roles I should reach out to?
EDIT: Thanks for the comments all, I think the sentiment reflect what I was thinking: will be very difficult. I will set 4 things in motion:
- Start reaching out internally in my current company to see if there are options for transfer
- Start activiting some of those recruitment firms: likely little outcome but does not hurt to try
- Set up an automatic alert for LinkedIn job adds
- Start learning japanese – in the worst case I end up with some additional basic vocabulary on our next trip there 🙂
by Remarkable-Sir6475