Senpai Success Story #4: James, and how he leveraged his language studies

Welcome to the 4th Senpai Success Story, where you can read about others who have walked a unique career path using their Japanese language/cultural skills. If you have your own SSS to share, please read more here. (Psst: Senpai means “mentor” or “teacher,” and the concept is important to understand for anyone wishing to work

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Why YOU should attend the 1/26/19 Japanese Job Fair in Novi, MI!

YOU are either one of the following: a Japanese-speaking American or English-speaking Japanese person who would love to use their language or cultural skills in a career  a global company that does business with Japanese customers or suppliers, or has Japanese employees or expatriates There are some pretty famous Japanese Job Fairs in London, Boston,

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Senpai Success Story#2: Emily (Auto Industry Account Manager)

Welcome to the second Senpai Success Story, where you can read about others who have walked a unique career path using their Japanese language/cultural skills. If you have your own SSS to share, please read more here. (Psst: Senpai means “mentor” or “teacher,” and the concept is important to understand for anyone wishing to work

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Senpai Success Story #1: Ashlee (Bilingual Executive Assistant)

Welcome to the first Senpai Success Story, where you can read about others who have walked a unique career path using their Japanese language/cultural skills. If you have your own SSS to share, please read more here. (Psst: Senpai means “mentor” or “teacher,” and the concept is important to understand for anyone wishing to work

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“Yes, I want a job using Japanese skills. But where do I start?”

Global companies have been utilizing very skilled bilingual persons for quite a while now, and you may think that you could never be compared to those successful people. You may see the words “bilingual” in a job advertisement and think that you could never be considered as such.  Students graduating from college and looking for

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Student: “I like studying Japanese language / culture, but you’re telling me I can use it in a job?”

Answer: “YES!” The college graduates I have interviewed in the past always amazed me with their Japanese language skills and/or knowledge of Japan. Some of you may be studying Japanese because it is fun or a neat class credit. Your family and friends probably ask you whether that major/minor even makes any sense for your

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