Job Hunting & Business Manners Seminar For Current and Former JETs

The JET Alumni Association Western Japan (JETAAWJ) will be hosting a job hunting and business manners seminar in Kobe with Mori Kosan Co., Ltd., a firm that supports foreigners seeking employment in Japan. The seminar will be from 9:00 to 15:00 on December 15 (Sat.), 2018 at Room 201 of the Kobe-shi Kyoiku Kaikan.

Attendees will learn things like navigating the job hunting process in Japan, how to write a Japanese-style resume, Japanese business manners, etc.
＊The seminar participation fee is 3000 yen.

There will also be a networking event on after the seminar from 16:00 to 18:00 in Sannomiya area. More details will be sent to participants.

For those who would like to attend, please apply here by filling out the information below. Priority will be given to JET alumni, but current JETs can still apply. A schedule with more detailed information on the seminar will be sent to applicants at the beginning of December.

＊The seminar will be conducted in Japanese, so it recommended for participants to have at least a JLPT N3 level of Japanese or higher.

For questions, please contact us here.

Announcing the JET Film Festival, Saturday November 18 ジェットフィルムフェスティバル、11月18日(土)

(日本語は下)
Last year, to celebrate the 30th Anniversary of the JET Programme, JETs past and present placed all around Japan created short, bilingual videos about the beauty of the areas they lived in as part of the JET Programme Video Contest. The JET Film Festival on Saturday November 18th at the Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art in Kobe will screen the winning entries of this contest, as well as “Live Your Dream: The Taylor Anderson Story“, the documentary of the life and legacy of Taylor Anderson, a JET participant from the US who lost her life in the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami. Join us at this event and support the Taylor Anderson Memorial Fund, which was set up in her honour.

After the film screening will be a reception, providing an opportunity for you to network with current JETs, JET alumni and the local community over light refreshments. (Limited to first 50 people only. 2000 yen, or 1000 yen for current JETs/JET Alumni)

Please also see the leaflet below. We look forward to welcoming you there!

You can sign up using the contact form below the Japanese text (please sign up one person at a time).

去年、JETプログラムの30周年を記念するために、全国のJET参加者や元JETが派遣された地元の魅力を発信する動画を作り、JETプログラム動画コンテストに参加しました。
このフィルムフェスティバルでは、受賞した動画を上映します。そして、2011年の東日本大震災で亡くなられたテイラー・アンダーソンについての感動的なドキュメンタリーを上映し、記念基金の募集を行います。
上映会の後はレセプションを行います。このレセプションでは、JET参加者や元JETなど、様々な国の方と交流できます。(先着順50名様まで)
※イベントは全て日本語と英語で行われます。動画・ドキュメンタリーも日本語と英語で上映されます。)

下のチラシもご覧ください。イベントでお会いしましょう！

参加申し込みされる方は下の申し込みフォームをご記入ください。

Farewell Sunday Roast for UK Deputy Consul General

On Sunday 11th June, JETAA Western Japan members bid farewell to UK Deputy Consul General Patrick Bannister and his wife Stephanie before they left to take up new positions in Tokyo. The event took place at the Harbour Tavern, a British pub in Kobe, over a traditional British Sunday Roast with all the trimmings.

JETAA Western Japan wishes Mr. and Mrs. Bannister the best of luck in their new lives in Tokyo.