I actually meant to blog about this yesterday, but clearly I was too busy relaxing to do so :p Anyway, on Monday, I went to my first job-hunting seminar that was aimed at foreign students. Even though the official job hunting season starts March 1st, there are fair number of pre-season events going on. This… Read More Shuukatsu Seminar for Foreign Students

So today, I got a job-hunting booklet from the school and I realised that I haven’t given an update of how the job hunting has done since… the suit post, if I remember correctly. It’s not just a schedule/notebook. They have advice too.  Anyway, I haven’t been doing much. I had an internship during the… Read More Job Hunting Update: 懇談会 and other stuff

As you all know, I’m intending to work in Japan. And so, on Thursday, I went for my first 懇談会 (kondankai) for an M&A company in Osaka. My senior sort of nominated me, so I figured it would be good to take a look at how they do things, even if it was inconvenient to… Read More First Company 懇談会 (Kondankai) in Osaka

As part of my 就活 (Shuukatsu; job hunting), I decided to buy a suit. Wait, I should probably start with “I decided that I’m going to go job-hunting in Japan”, right? Yeah, probably. So, I decided, since I’m in Japan, and because I want to practice business Japanese, that I should try to get a job… Read More 就活 (Shuukatsu): Buying a Suit

So, Nic and Bekah convinced me that rather than leaving this blog fallow, I could just blog about my life. Like how blogging was originally intended. (blog is shorted from “weblog”, which apparently started off as an online diary) Yes, I am a bit dense at times. Anyway, I’ve been in school, which is very… Read More Food, Translation Work and Presentations