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After Teaching in Japan...How has this experience helped you in your career? |
Travel Info I would like to know how useful this experience is in terms of developing a "real" career after you have finished teaching in Japan. Travel Tips It will depend very heavily on how you 'sell' the experience when you get home. I taught for three years, and used the experience to back up the experience I had before I left. I was a entrry-level university administrator - after Japan and an M.Ed., I am now working for the Office of International Affairs at my institution, and am very satisfied with my job. Your experience in Japan should set you apart as adaptable/able to cope with new ideas, culturally aware and sensitive, independent. If you have taken the time to learn the language (not something I did well), this could also be of great interest to a number of employers. The key will be to make sure you present what you learned as effectively as you can in resumes and cover letters. If the hiring officer hasn't lived overseas, you will need to be very specific about what living overseas taught you, and what skills you developed as a result. Others I have gone on to own my own company. I strongly recommend it if you are considering coming to Japan. Not only for career development but also for social networking development. Well, teaching is my "real" career. I taught there for 3 years and experience is the best thing a teacher can have. My experience in Japan helped me get my teaching job here in America. I did it part time. Tutoring English. It was an amazing experience I don't know if it helped my professional life, but it did help my social life and my ability to live comfortably in Japan for another 3 years. So teaching isn't a "real" career? If you don't see it as a "real" career before you go, how do you expect to sell it on your resume when you get back? Besides, if you are more worried about what it will do to your career before you even get there, and not focused on making the most of a great cross-cultural experience, you might just be miserable here while you do your "time" on your contract. Some short-sighted and incredibly embittered people will sell teaching in Japan short as a last refugee for people who couldn't get jobs in their home countries. YOu have to be prepare for this mentality to be present in some employers who have never set foot in Japan or anywhere but take this position in an effort to feel better about their life choices. All that negativity aside, teaching in Japan or any foriegn country gives one the experience of dealing with a variety of people from different walks of life and different cultures. You have to be adaptive to different students' needs as the same lesson style won't work for each student. You have to become good at reading people to see if they are confused, upset, or satisfied. In addition, teaching gives one the experience of being in a leadership position of sorts as they have to set the course of the lesson and make decisions along the way on what to do and what not to do. Teaching helps to give one confidence in speaking in front of groups or individuals: a definate necessity for those who need to give speeches and presentations in those "real" careers you speak of. So problem-solving skills, analytical skills, people-reading abilities, and speaking confidence are valuable assets one can pick up teaching in Japan. |
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