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- The following sample 履歴書 (rirekisho) and a blank template are available for download as Microsoft Word documents at the end of this walkthrough. For ease of explanation, we’ll be looking at a rirekisho that’s already been filled out. Here’s what one looks like, split into two halves for ease of viewing.
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Most of the resume can stay constant for every job application: Your name, contact information, educational history, and certification aren't going to change. (In Japan, it's common to list all certifications on a resume, even if some of them have nothing to do with the job you're applying for.) But, you need to tailor the 志望動機 (shibou douki - 'motivation for applying') and 自己PR (jiko PR - 'self introduction & promotion') sections for every job you apply for. These are the things that Japanese employers are reading very carefully to find out whether you really know what kind of work you're applying for and whether you're really interested in the field.
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Feb 23, 2009 The following sample 履歴書 (rirekisho) and a blank template are available for download as Microsoft Word documents at the end of this walkthrough. For ease of explanation, we’ll be looking at a rirekisho that’s already been filled out. Here’s what one looks like, split into two halves for ease of viewing.
(By the way, sometimes the 自己PR field is called 特技・趣味 (tokugi, shumi) or 得意な科目 (tokui na kamoku). Regardless, your content should be the same, because purpose of the field is fundamentally the same: to tell why you, with your abilities and interests, are ideal for the position.). Anonymous 25 August 2012 at 11:40 Cool article! But this kinda kicked my idea of working in a japanese company. If you really get judged by that paper, I don't have any motivation left working for that company. For me, a resume and application is 'a tool' for getting into an interview.
It's the personality, motivation and skill that should decide if you fit into an company or not. The resume should give a sneak peek about a person - the rest should be decided after some personal talks. If someone asks me to rewrite my resume by hand just for no real reason - or treat me because of my handwriting - I would probably just stand up and leave, as this is very likely not the company I want to work for the next years for. But this is just my opinion. Anonymous 9 June 2013 at 21:24 If you refuse to rewrite your resume by hand, it means you are not eligible to work in Japan, you will even be blamed for coming to Japan by Japanese people not only recuiters, because it is a culture of Japan and you do not respect it all. Even though more of typed rirekisho is accepcted today, hand written rirekisho does not mean old-fashioned.
'Hand writing' is regarded as a way to express your politeness, respect for the others and personality, which are very important in Japan, personal formal letters/cards and its envelope are ususally hand written rather than being typed. Therefor, rirekisho is written by hand in general, and treated as a thing to judge you whether you are worth to invite for an interview or not, not just to see your skills relevant to the work for recruiters. Meanwhile, typed document shows your typing/PC operating skill, so Shokumu-keirekisho is always typed, never hand written. This is not my opinion but general common sence in Japan, because I am Japanese. Anonymous 15 January 2014 at 21:58 Anonymous 9 June 2013 21:24 If you refuse to rewrite your resume by hand, it means you are not eligible to work in Japan, you will even be blamed for coming to Japan by Japanese people not only recuiters, because it is a culture of Japan and you do not respect it all.
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What you are saying is so absurd! I just could not help it but comment. Be blamed by the Japanese people by not re-writing a resume, so the whole country of Japan is going to know, because I refused to re-write my resume. Ohh almost forgot the recruiters too are going to blame you to shame. I guess this serves as a warning to all foreign job seekers, because and I'm qouting 'This is not my opinion but general common sence in Japan, because I am Japanese.' What planet are you from again?
I think what you meant to say is that job is for Japanese people only not foreigners. Opinion or not your common sense is out of whack. Try to understand this if you have common sense, we are foreigners looking for a foreigners position not a Japanese not a native position, or we wouldn't even have this discussion, because we would all be Japanese Duhh. 21 January 2014 at 18:17 I think it would come across as a little childish if you refused, at some point in the application process, to write something out by hand, on principle, when asked to do so by a potential employer. Maybe you have (or will have) tons of job offers in Japan flooding your way, this will never be an issue for you, and you can stick your nose up at Konami or Bandai or Kanebou or LION for asking you to provide a handwritten resume (because they do). (Hell, even the Japan-side hiring process for foreign firms like Goldman Sachs requires it of new grads.) Or maybe you will choose to stay within the ESL industry, in which there are plenty of good career opportunities that often have already modernized their hiring processes to better accommodate foreign perspectives.
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But I suspect that most bright-faced recent grads with a shot at working for a Japanese company on the Japan side, who are probably the only people who would need to search for these forms on an English-language website anyway, would be willing to comply with such a request. Anonymous 27 April 2015 at 16:12 Don't know if anyone still cares, but to the people saying that you need to re-write your japanese resume out by hand.total B.S. I have gotten multiple job offers and multiple jobs in Japan at Japanese companies with a printed resume. To anyone reading this and feeling a little intimidated by the idea of being judged by the writing of a language that is not your own, I'm here to tell you that you need not be. Just print your resume out and submit it.
Most employers seem to have enough sense to understand that Japanese is not your native language and thus will not judge you on your writing ability ( unless of course, the job you are applying for specifically requires hand-written Japanese ). They would be more likely to judge you on your Japanese comprehension through verbal communication ( which is thoroughly assessed during the interview ) and Japanese input/reading ability ( for things like daily email sending/receiving). 5'1 in meters. Just because other people have applied to what I can assume are some of the most closed minded companies in Japan and have been rejected for not being born a Japanese native, does not mean that you will.
Have hope and send that printed resume out. If they do reject you based on your non-writing, chances are you would not have wanted to work there in the first place. Look at it as them doing you a favor.