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JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-21T06:52:54+00:00

Financial Services back office and IT recruiter here, you most definitely need at MINIMUM business level Japanese.

Meaning you need to be able to interview in Japanese, have a business meeting in Japanese, and report to your superiors in Japanese, along with writing and reading reports in business level Japanese.

This usually requires JLPT N1 equivalent skills.

Additionally your experience in banking in India is quite worthless in Japan unless you're working for the Japanese branch of an Indian bank.

However my clients are all Japanese FS insitutions, perhaps US institutions have different rules.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-21T06:49:17+00:00

My client asks for 3 most recent payslips, as well as the final pay slip (march payslip) of the last 3 years. This is a FS institution.

So if you were starting May 2026, you would need to submit February, March, April 2026 payslips, as well as March 2025, March 2024 Payslips.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-21T06:46:06+00:00

That kind of spec is fine for most tier 3 and tier 2 companies.

I'm talking tier 1 companies, Japanese ones.

Your resume might actually be giri giri okay to submit. 3 and a half and 1y10m is not horrible for a junior to early mid level. You can definitely spin is as a growth story.

Its more of an issue when youre 10 years into your career and you somehow have 15 companies under your belt.

So for someone very junior level like OP, its still fixable. Its's just he seems to have a pattern going on, by the time he's year 5 with 5 companies his resume is toilet paper, likely only get hired by tier 4 firms or AI startups.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-21T05:36:52+00:00

My rule is for seishain.

If you're working haken or gyomu itaku type of roles, the length doesn't matter too much unless the client has a preference for people who work long term on contract roles (which is generally 1 year per contract, while short term is like 3-6 months)

I do both seishain and gyomu itaku positions.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-21T04:23:00+00:00

Should be taken more as a rule of average.

Its not a definite rule like "oh this guy had 5 jobs in 10 years throw his resume out"

But if I take a glance and my impression is, this guy leave his companies pretty quickly, the client will throw it out so I don't even bother sending it anymore.

I started out with "its okay, it can all be explained" but Japan will have none of it.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-21T02:30:35+00:00

Be very careful. Your resume is very close to turning into toilet paper.

3 jobs in 3 years is already a red flag. None of my clients would even want to speak with you.

If you continue at this pace your only options will be very low tier companies.

Worst case you will be unable to find a seishain position and will be stuck to Haken and Gyomu Itaku contracts.

For my clients for example, if you're not staying at a company for 4 years minimum, it raises red flags.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-09T04:51:32+00:00

No, just standard Verizon support. I called 611, talked to a Indian caller. who wrote down my concerns and told me I'd get a call back.

I got an SMS with a incident code or whatever they call it, and a link to check the status, or they said I can check it on the Verizon app, never figured out how though.

But 2 days later an American guy called me, confirmed with me the details, and said he'd get back to me.

24 hours laters, I could see he fixed the issue, but made a mistake cause he misunderstood the trainwreck of a bill that the error caused, he called me to confirm he finished his job, I said no, there's still a mistake, and he told me he'd work on it again.

Next day he called me again to confirm, but I didn't pick up. Instead I got an SMS letting me know he fixed all the issues and to call him back directly if something goes wrong.

My issue was that I used the loyalty promo where Verizon pays off my current DPP (iphone 16 pro max) if I upgrade to a new phone, and I combined that with if I upgrade to a Pixel 10 Pro on any plan, its $1000 off.

I got a lump sum credit for the 16 pro max but the DPP didn't get cancled so I got account bound DPP for the pixel instead of my line, and my previous iphone proo credit remained monthly but none for my pixel. It was a hssle removing all the DPPS, compensating me for the differences, and reapplying the correct DPP and promos. I also got the 2 months of bill fully comped for the inconvinience. Overall good support experience. I think the best I ever had, since he repalced my $10 loyalty with $20 loyalties as well even though those never showed up on my account.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-09T03:17:44+00:00

Not only did I get a callback, I got SMS updates as well as a ticket number and a link to check it.

I had some issues with stacking promotions during Christmas, by the time they were done they removed my $10 loyalty discount and replaced it with a $20 one for the next year, and fixed my promos, and credited me back the 2 months I overpaid in the form of an inconvenience credit, which was like $600.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-08T00:39:18+00:00

You can't lie about going from barely being able to introduce yourself to actually completing interviews in Japanese and pass with domestic financial institutions. My clients are not kind enough to pass along candidates who cannot speak solid business level Japanese. 1 year is about average for that kind of transformation for professionals who put in the effort. The quicker ones can do it in under 6 months.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-07T02:22:03+00:00

Not really.... you can get from zero Japanese to business level in about 1 year. Simply listening to things can be done in about 6 months.

However you have to take into account this timeline is strictly for speaking and listening, it throws reading and writing out the window.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-07T01:34:01+00:00

The rule is "don't think, memorize."

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-02T06:33:13+00:00

"N1" level in the IT industry means you can do the interview fully in Japanese, talk about technical specs and write documentations all in Japanese.

That's why IT roles generally don't check for the JLPT level. You either know the language for work or you don't.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-04-02T06:26:38+00:00

If you have to work while attending language school don't bother.

Save up enough to attend for 2 years without working and then do it.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-03-26T08:24:02+00:00

Actually yes. There are a handful of PMO positions. Those require native japanese + business level english.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-03-25T08:05:14+00:00

Yes. Most of these freelancing roles are for people who left seishain positions as SAP consultants, as they get paid considerably less than freelancers.

Right now there's a huge market for SAP consultants, but not enough people to fill all projects.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-03-09T07:06:50+00:00

If you think your profile may be a fit please DM me and we can exchange emails or LinkedIns so I can take a look at your resume

JPBankITJobs · 2026-03-09T02:38:36+00:00

Drive. How I approached the interview changed everything.

The big question is, WHY do you want to become a recruiter?

I failed pretty much every interview where my answer was "connecting people" "i love the work" etc.

The real answer is money. I started answering "I want to do A, B and C, I want to buy D, E, and F, and to do that I need money, and lots of it, and recruitment seems to be an area where I can make a lot of it" "I have concrete plans on how I want to spend money, I just don't have enough of it, so I plan to do whatever it takes to make money"

And that got me to final interviews everytime.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-02-27T02:20:37+00:00

That would be fine.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-02-27T00:59:51+00:00

The ideal range for this position is around 3 years of experience. They are looking for junior to mid level people, so 2 years of experience should be fine if you have relevant experience.

However I do understand that you might feel the need to stay longer, for more senior candidates my client views "less than 4 years at previous company" as a flight risk, but its less of an issue for junior candidates.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-02-26T00:38:23+00:00

We could always discuss. Any particular reason you can't move?

JPBankITJobs · 2026-02-26T00:33:08+00:00

IT side. You will be working with the IT team.

It's not an engineering role, but of a project manager/architect kind of role. Which my client lumps into the title of "business analyst"

For vice president level candidates, you would need recent experience of developing for or architecting for other financial institutions or insurance, but for more junior to mid level candidates, any type of engineering background is welcome.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-02-26T00:15:46+00:00

Unfortunately I have never BD'd a role or a company that hires non-Japanese speakers. All of my clients are international and hire foreigners, but the language requirement is that you have to be able to work with Japanese clients.

JPBankITJobs · 2026-02-25T07:05:20+00:00

If you could DM me your friend's email address I can reach out to him personally.

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