大学・大学院卒で初任給1000万円（年棒）の取得方法を、自分の就活経験に基づいて書く。今、円高が進んでいて完全には当てはまらないが、この記事は１ドル＝１００円という理想な場合を考えて書いてある。この記事は、あくまでも就活情報の共有、キャリア向上の参考のための記事である。企業・職種選びの際に役に立てればいい。
まず、大卒の初任給で１千万円を稼げることを知らない人が多いことが分かった。もちろん簡単ではないが、可能である。初任給１千万円となると企業の種類、職種と勤務地が限られる。
Posts Tagged ‘job hunting ’
Joining Qualcomm
06
Apr
Qualcomm Interview: 3 Days in San Diego (Formal Part)
30
Nov
So, how is it like to get an on-site interview from Qualcomm? It’s… AWESOME. It feels more like a fun trip rather than a frustrating experience! Of course, they still grill you hard on the interviews. After all, that’s how interviews are. But what awaits after those interviews are beaches, surfing, wave machines, volleyball, clubbing, great dinner and ferry tour at night to see San Diego’s nightscape. And those are parts of your official 3-days interview schedule. You don’t have to spend a single dime. Your mission is to get in to San Diego, ace the interviews, play at the beach, and get out. Not too bad, eh? =)
Day 1: Fly to San Diego, Baby!
It was Thursday morning, November 12, 2009. I only slept 3 hours the night before, because I had to review some stuff that they are going to ask on the interviews. I packed all my stuff in 30 mins, call taxi (and yes, they even pay for the taxi to the airport just in case you ask, you cheap bastard.. >=P) and went to the airport.
Job Hunting in USA & Boston Career Forum
28
Nov
It has been a month since my last post. During these 2 months I have been extremely busy with job hunting in USA as well as research and study. Applying for jobs in the states has been tougher since the recession. For this reason, I tried not being too selective and applied to as many companies that still fall within my field of interest. I am interested in applying for jobs in Japan as well, that is why I also attended Boston Career Forum 2009, which is the biggest job fair for English – Japanese bilinguals. Basically, I was looking for positions as Software Developers/Engineers. This post broadly explains the processes involved in job hunting in USA and Japan (through Boston Career Forum). I hope this post will be helpful for people interested in applying to either.
Job Hunting in USA
US companies are different from Japanese companies in that they expect fresh graduates to be immediately productive once they enter the company, whereas Japanese companies generally do not expect fresh grads to be work-ready and tend to train fresh graduates from zero. This is reflected heavily in the job screening process and interviews. Japanese companies emphasize more on the potential of the interviewee, hence, the interviews are mostly Behavioral. On the other hand, interviews for American companies consist of a series of Technical Interviews with one Behavioral Interview in the end. The questions asked in Technical Interviews range greatly from very basic questions to hardcore technical ones that sometimes you have never encountered in school. In most cases, you are required to explain your answer orally and convince your interviewer.
Throwing out quizzes in the interviews is probably a part of US companies culture. In many of my interviews, I was asked quizzes like: “Why manhole has round shape?”, “Given 10 jars filled with the same number of 1 kg balls, only 1 jar is filled with 0.9 kg balls. How do you find which jar is filled with 0.9 kg ones with only one measurement?”, etc. These are the examples of the most famous ones. I even had one interviewer asked me a question from Die Hard 2: “You have 2 empty cups. One can hold exactly 3 liter, the other one can hold exactly 5 liter. If you have infinite amount of water, how do you get exactly 4 liter of water?”. For financial companies, they mostly ask probability questions. Sometimes the companies want to see how you react in a specific situation. A friend of mine was asked: “In 5 seconds, what is 39×41?” just as he entered the interview room. Of course this problem would not even take more than a second to solve, but when you are in panic even the simplest problem can be very hard to solve.
Job hunting -> Marriage hunting -> Morning study
07
Oct
The term 婚活 (read: konkatsu), which means marriage hunting, used to be a trend in Japan a few months ago, probably popularized by the drama “Konkatsu” with the same name. 婚活 itself is derived from the daily used word 就活 (read: shuukatsu) which is a word describe job hunting process.
And now Japan comes up with a new term: 朝活 (read: asakatsu). The details of 朝活 can be seen in the video below:
The newscasters start out by explaining that 朝活 is a recent phenomenon where corporate employees (or in Japlish: salaryman) use their short period of time before commuting to work (i.e. 1 hour) for studying.
The video tells the story of Yoshikawa Kazuki, 29, who works as a field supervisor for a construction company. He goes to a desk-for-rent study room where he pays 13500 yen/month to use the desk and study for architect exam to get a certificate. He said studying in the morning for an hour is more efficient than studying for 3 hours after he gets back from work tired. And desk-for-rent helps him to concentrate better because there is no TV, PC, or any temptations. The study room which consists of 100 desks-for-rent has been overbooked since the number salarymen studying in the morning has increased drastically since last year’s recession.
The second part of the video shows a company that targets corporate employees and offers morning courses. The company offers variety of courses such as calligraphy, business manners, yoga, agriculture, etc. The video shows that company has received positive feedback from the students and gained increasing popularity in the working community.