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Japanese companies not willing to hire Western-educated, Japanese students
- michaelpinto 14y agoWhy is this a surprise? Those western schools don't have the prestige that the top Japanese schools do. Well unless you're doing some thing like studying to a chef in Paris.
- tomflack 14y agoThe very first paragraph has a student from Oxford.
- michaelpinto 14y agoIn Japan Oxford may not be seen as prestigious as the top rated Japanese universities...
- tomflack 14y agoThat wasn't what you said.
- michaelpinto 14y agoThrow away your western bias and re-read tomflack-chan: "Those western schools don't have the prestige that the top Japanese schools do." : D
- tomflack 14y agoAccusing someone of cultural bias always feels to me like a shorthand for "I want the last word no matter what". As such, after this post I won't be engaging with you any further. Your two posts have different meanings, the first gave no cultural anchor when saying western schools were not as prestegious as the top Japanese schools, while your second one did. It's a semantic difference, but it matters. That said, in the scope of the article that is the problem being posed. Japanese firms not hiring based on talent and ignoring good internationally educated candidates. As for your accusations of a western bias - you don't know Mr, you don't know how or where I was brought up so don't be so quick to fall on that crutch in argument.
- delackner 14y agoAll I can say is, this makes for a very easy competitive environment for companies that are smart enough to grab up all those foreign-contaminated rejects.
- edandersen 14y agoThe Japanese corporates know that the Western educated candidates are so far ahead of the Japan-educated candidates that they will hate the first few years of any job in a Japanese company. A graduate in Japan is expected to be a low paid blank slate to mould. These guys should work for a foreign company ("gaishikei") in Japan. Not quite sure what they are complaining about, they have dodged a bullet.