I'm an international student graduating in September 2026 and currently on a job hunting with a starting date for April 2027. As a background:
- I'm a graduate student in 理系 in a national university
- Looking for a job based in Tokyo
- Currently holding JLPT N2, good conversational skill but not really good in business
- Have been going for job hunting since last year, however I applied to a very limited number of companies.
However, since I don't speak advanced Japanese I actually struggled during internships — one event is I struggled to present my works in Japanese during an internship, although my supervisor later let me to present in English and answer the feedbacks in Japanese. It ended up well through this scheme though, but it left me some traumatic fear afterwards to use my Japanese again, as I felt insufficient to survive in a fully Japanese company. Up to now, I haven't had the courage to apply to any position, despite I know that it's currently the job hunting season. The anxiety has been stuffing up to me right now honestly despite I know my capabilities….
Does anyone knows any place to practice job interview for free? I know some but currently trying to look more. I don't prefer practicing with people I know, my university has a career center but they are fairly slow respond, other alternative that I know is practicing through italki, but I don't think I can do it that often because it costs a lot.
by Fun-Letterhead8246