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Option A: Career Consultation
For individuals looking to re-enter the work force, to find a job in Tokyo or to change careers. Includes a Career Exploration Questionnaire that will help you explore your interests and strengths and a one-hour face-to-face career consultation. Clients are required to fill out the Career Exploration Questionnaire and submit it with a resume before the consultation. Depending on the client’s interests and needs, relevant and helpful resources and other information will also be provided during the meeting.
Option B: Resume Editing & Consultation
For individuals interested in updating and creating a more strategic, targeted resume or tailoring it for a specific position or industry. Includes two resume edits, the first for grammatical mistakes and the latter for word choice and layout. After the first edit, questions about the resume and suggestions for wording and layout are relayed through email, and the client is asked to edit the resume and submit an updated copy. Once received, the resume is edited again and finalized. All correspondence will be via email or telephone.
Option C: Complete Resume Make-over & Consultation
For individuals looking to re-enter the job force, to find a job in Tokyo, to change careers, or who are interested in updating and improving resume. For individuals with a resume, this Option includes two resume edits (see Option B) and a half-hour face-to-face consultation. During the consultation, clients will be asked to discuss their experiences and achievements as the resume is edited on-the-spot. After the consultation, a second edit is completed and the updated resume forwarded back to the client. For individuals without a resume, a resume is created after an initial consultation meeting, and only one edit is completed.
Option D: Resume Translation Service
Translation of resumes from English to Japanese and Japanese to English are available. Fees are calculated based on number of words.
SAVE! with Career Packages
Package 1: Enhanced Career Consultation
Option A: Career Consultation Meeting PLUS Option B: Resume Editing & Consultation
Package 2: Comprehensive Career Evaluation and Consultation
Option A: Career Consultation Meeting PLUS Option C: Complete Resume Make-over & Consultation
Contact us with questions!
Contact us at to discuss making your resume and career work for you!
Broad-Minded Business
Broad-Minded Business is a job information and placement service that has grown from Being A Broad. We work with employers, recruiters, and candidates in Japan, specialising in:
- finding jobs in Japan for women within companies that will allow them to thrive professionally
- finding qualified, dynamic, internationally-minded female staff for companies.
Our organization specializes in finding jobs for internationally-minded women in Japan. We also assist employers by finding professional, qualified and multi-lingual candidates to fulfill their hiring needs. BMB specializes in working with female candidates, and finding working environments which are supportive of working women’s needs and committed to treating their female employees well, but male candidates are also welcome.
Services for Employers
At Broad-Minded Business, we believe that women represent the future. As business continues to globalize, employers cannot afford to be without internationally-minded employees. To stay competitive, the need to hire dynamic, talented and forward-thinking employees cannot be ignored.
We aim to fulfill employers’ need for qualified, dynamic and internationally-minded women in Japan. Our candidates are from a wide range of industries, countries and experience levels. Almost half are bilingual in English and Japanese, and many also speak other languages.
If you are a company that is proud of your ability to allow women to thrive at work, and are looking to hire, please contact us: Contact BMB About Hiring.
Job Posting Service:
Women on our mailing list receive up-to-date information giving them details of new available positions. We aim to help women find challenging and fulfilling positions within women-friendly companies.
Resume editing, translation and makeover services:
For women hoping to increase their chances in the job market, we offer a wide range of services. We can help design a package, whether a woman wishes:
- to add impact to her resume
- create a Western-style resume
- have a resume translated from Japanese to English or vice versa or a combination of these
Job & Career exploration and consultation services:
For individuals hoping to re-enter the workforce, find a job in Tokyo or change careers. This service includes the Career Exploration questionnaire, and a professional yet friendly face-to-face consultation. Contact BMB With Career Questions.
Always Open!
SEND your resume! SEND your resume We are always looking for candidates who are:
- Individuals with counseling or human resources experience
- Those with a high level of Japanese - speaking, writing, and reading
- Highly qualified, experienced, more mature candidates
Note to Male Applicants:
Although we specialise in assisting women in their search for employment, we do welcome applications from men. Don’t be shy, write to us or apply for a job!
Business Trainer “Plus” (full-time) - Tokyo based
We are a small but expanding international training provider looking to recruit a professional, experienced business trainer. This is a serious career opportunity offering the chance to combine high level training skills with business development work. Longer term management opportunities are also possible.
We are looking for a mature, flexible, self-motivated and articulate individual who will enjoy working in a small team. Candidates should have solid business experience and be educated to at least graduate level. Japanese or other language skills would be advantageous but are not essential. We would hope to send the successful candidate to the UK for initial training at the beginning of April.
For information about us please see our website: http://www.canning.co.jp. If you are interested in this position, please send your resume + covering email to: konishi@canning.co.jp
0407TO: Advertising Sales Manager
Company Profile:
An exciting international media entertainment company is looking for an Advertising Sales Manager. The company’s vision is to educate and entertain people about the world’s diversity and wonders through exciting television programs, events and other productions. Launched in Asia in 1994, it now provides services to over 23 Asian countries and territories.
Description:
Manage the advertising sales function for two television channels. Win new business and manage the whole sales process and related activities. This includes pre-sales (data, presentation, and internal coordination), supervision of contracts, media plan, booking (including production material like billboards) and post sales (transparent report, tape record and creative campaign report).
Job Responsibilities:
Objective: Manage advertising sales of two television channels to maximize sales revenues and meet corporate objectives.
-Perform sales activities on accounts and win new accounts while maintaining long-lasting relationships with clients (advertiser) and agencies.
-Coordinate channel resources to ensure efficient and stable advertising sales.
-Manage sales efforts, including activities of sales negotiation and monitoring of contracts.
-Develop and supervise the preparation, issuance, and delivery of sales materials and presentations /proposal.
-Manage and supervise media plans and bookings.
-Supervise internal coordination with teams like the traffic team.
-Analyze and appraise the effectiveness of sales, methods, costs and results.
-Assist in the annual budget planning process and regularly monitor expenditures.
-Participate in the development of operating goals and objectives for the unit; recommend, implements, and administer methods and procedures to enhance operations.
It is significantly important to approach & win new clients with a direct approach rather than maintaining the current routine agency business. Therefore, expected time management for the manager role would be:
70%: Direct approach to the advertiser (and client service).
20%: Agency sales, including direct response to advertiser as well as minor clients.
10%: Media planning/booking and traffic coordination.
Job Requirements:
-Native Japanese Ability
-Business Development and Advertising Sales Experience a plus
-Highly motivated and success driven
To Apply:
To apply for this position, send your resume and cover letter to jobs@broadmindedbusiness.com, quoting reference number
0444CP: Magazine Advertising Sales Position
Description:
WORK FOR BEING A BROAD AND WEEKENDER MAGAZINES
We are currently interviewing candidates to join our advertising sales team.
Men, women, foreign and Japanese candidates welcome to apply. Candidates must have excellent written English OR Japanese skills, and have a friendly, personable nature. Must also be very organized, self-motivated, and creative in finding solutions to clients’ marketing needs. Must enjoy talking to and meeting with people, networking, making phone calls, and writing proposals.
There are opportunities to organize client events or write articles. Must enjoy the challenges of working within a small business environment. Experience or interest in print media is beneficial, but training is provided. We have a large existing client base, which you will be expected to maintain as well as develop new clients. Candidates with sales experience in any industry are particularly encouraged to apply. Schedule is flexible, with a high commission-based income. Good sales staff can expect to earn around 600,000 yen per month, with the potential to earn more. We are based in a small, friendly office in Azabudai.
To Apply:
To apply, send your resume and cover letter to Caroline Pover directly at caroline@carolinepover.com.
The deadline for applicants is:
8am Monday 27th August, 2007 and interviews will take place that week.
0431KW: Assistant Operations Manager (Osaka)
Company Profile:
Our client provides competitive human resource and payroll outsourcing expertise in Asia. with an aim is to equip companies with cutting edge technology and assist them in striving for workforce excellence in today’s volatile business environment.
Our client’s proprietary software is a comprehensive suite of applications geared toward relieving HR departments of administrative headaches; the client’s Payroll Outsourcing is a specialized service made available to companies who seek to streamline and render their HR more effective.
Backed up by more than 20 years of experience, the company has delivered high quality, efficient and cost effective HR solutions to myriad of companies in the Asia-Pacific region - from new modest setups to well-known multinational companies that generate millions in payroll.
Description:
Job Title : Assistant Operations Manager
Salary : 300,000 - 350,000 Yen per month depending on experience
Location : Osaka, Japan
Working Hours : 5 days, minimum 40 hours per week.
Job Responsibilities:
1) Monitor, manage and administer Japanese payroll for our outsourcing clients
2) Responsible for timely and accurate payroll processing, including tax computation and other payroll related accruals
3) Preparation of payroll reconciliation and other reports
4) Coordinate with the client on payroll implementation and migration for new clients
5) Write reports in English to head office in Singapore on status of project.
6) Oversee daily office operations & Submit expense report to head office.
Job Requirements:
1) Proficient in spoken and written English and Japanese
2) Proficient with the Japanese payroll software, Kyuyobugyo
3) Minimum 2 years experience in payroll processing
4) Well-versed with Japan’s employment laws and statutory regulations (inhabitant tax, withholding tax and social insurance)
5) Travel abroad couple of times a year
6) Dynamic and young individual
7) Pleasant personality with excellent interpersonal and communication skills
8) Analytical, meticulous and able to work comfortably with numbers
9) Good knowledge of payroll related statues
10) Ability to work independently and under minimal supervision
11) Strong leadership skills capabilities
To Apply:
To apply for this position, send your resume and cover letter to jobs@broadmindedbusiness.com, quoting reference number
0426MK: Boudoir Positions
Boudoir has several openings for positions!
Description:
Receptionist
- English & Japanese speaker
- Must be well presented with a strong sense of customer care
- Who can handle the clients / phone / computer work / stock control
- And all aspects of everyday running of a busy day spa.
- It’s a full-time position, with a lot of responsibilities
- And requires a person who can think fast, be very organized and can multi-task.
Beauty therapist
- Must be able to speak good English and be well presented
- With at least 2 years work experience in the beauty industry. Boudoir is a highly professional salon, with clients ranging from movie-stars to Embassy and Financial Executives - through to ex-pat wives and English teachers – so it’s very important that the quality of service is five star.
- Provide ongoing training and all our therapists are qualified in the art of Facials, Waxing, Nails, and Eyelash Tinting & Perming.
Nail Technician
- Must be able to converse in English and be well presented
- Should be qualified in the art of Manicures and Pedicures with a minimum of 2 years salon experience.
To Apply:
To apply for this position, send your resume and to boudoirtokyo@hotmail.com, or call Boudoir and ask for Marilyn 03-3478-5898.
0414TN: Software Testing Engineers
Company Profile:
A Global Communications company with a diverse and international clientele is seeking software testing engineers for support, test piloting and analysis of mobile phones in Japan.
Description:
Technical Support Engineer:
-Support the business development manager in handling technical information management.
-Manage technical Q&A correspondence during customer pilot.
-Organize technical demo and test on or near customer locations as requested.
-Manage prototypes and provide technical support during customer events.
Test and Test Pilot Engineers:
-Carry out software testing manually for mobile phones by following defined processes.
-Carry out Japanese variant testing and operator testing.
-Analyze and follow-up on test results and errors and report them to project leader.
-Maintain test data, test equipment and test environments.
-Create test/demo environments.
-Develop and maintain test cases.
Job Requirements:
-Japanese: Native or equivalent.
-English: Good reading and writing skills required for all positions except test pilots.
Test Pilots & Engineers:
-Software testing skills and experience; experience Symbian OS preferable
-Test automation, testing Japanese vendors is preferable while signaling tester experience is preferable.
-Knowledge of software testing techniques, general knowledge of mobile phones (ex. WCDMA), services and industry in Japan.
Technical Support
-Knowledge of WLAN/ VoIP /VPN/ SIP/ Security and WCDMA phones preferable.
-Self-organizer and independent worker.
-Customer and Information management.
To Apply:
To apply for this position, send your resume and cover letter to jobs@broadmindedbusiness.com, quoting reference number
0388TO: Media Sales Staff
Company Profile:
A leading INTERNATIONAL TELEVISION NETWORK dedicated to educating and providing people with the opportunity to explore and learn about the world. Launched in Asia in 1994, it now provides services to over 23 Asian countries and territories.
The ideal candidate will support the advertising sales team and manage the activities of internal coordination and client service while maximizing advertising sales by fully utilizing channel/team resources and meeting the client’s needs with professional creative solution, execution and client service.
Job Responsibilities:
Work will be broadly divided between pre-sales (coordinating and developing a creative solution/proposal), post sales (ensuring the delivery of client commitment through project management) and post campaign reporting to:
-Develop a unique & creative solution with sales team to meet the client’s marketing objective.
-Manage internal coordination with creative service, marketing and program to ensure that client requirements/commitments are met.
-Investigate the feasibility and cost (profitability) of proposal/project/campaign/media plans.
-Present and execute the solution/project with sales team to ensure that the client requirements are met at execution phase and provide a full range of service to ensure continuous and satisfactory client relationships.
-Work closely with sales team to produce the advertiser’s promo, o/c billboards and other sophisticated programs or event sponsorships.
-Produce and present post campaign report with analysis for the effectiveness of sales, proposal/project and results.
Job Requirements:
-Japanese native language ability (reading/writing/speaking) is required and English ability is welcome but not necessary
-Bachelor’s degree in business, sales or marketing is preferred
-Strong background in advertising sales would be beneficial
To Apply:
To apply for this position, send your resume and cover letter to jobs@broadmindedbusiness.com, with the job number
0356MA: Japanese Editorial Manager
Job Responsibilities:
- Develop business plan for Japanese publishing based on company’s business strategy
- Making justification for headcount
- Work in partnership with English editorial manager to oversee Japanese editing and translation (E-J, J-E)
- Recruiting
- Managing team talent and performance
- Prioritizing day-to-day workflow based on an understanding of the business
- Ensuring high quality output in Japanese
- Improving company’s technology platforms
Job Requirements:
- Speak, read, edit Japanese
- Business English
- Management experience
The Japanese editorial team size is about 10 people but is growing fairly rapidly in line with all of company’s businesses. Given rapid growth, the company is prioritising someone with above all good management skills in this field who has experience working in a bicultural environment.
To Apply:
To apply for this position, send your resume and cover letter to jobs@broadmindedbusiness.com, quoting reference number 0356MA
0350ED: Operations/Sales
Company Profile:
Go Mobile is a leading a mobile phone rental company for travelers to and from Japan (http://www.gomobile.co.jp).
Covering North America, Oceania, the UK, Europe and many countries in Asia, we are known for competitive calling rates and our simple ordering and payment system.
Go Mobile offers discounts for all Being A Broad members, simply enter Beingabroad when you order.
Description:
Are you a native Japanese speaker and would you like to work with an international team in a comfortable environment?
Go Mobile is expanding and we require administration/customer service and sales staff. Please click the links below for more details:
Administration/customer service:
http://www.gomobile.co.jp/operations_j.html
Salesperson:
http://www.gomobile.co.jp/sales_j.html
To Apply:
Please send your English and Japanese resumes to gmhelp@gomobile.co.jp.
0344GT: Market Development and Sales Associate
Company Profile:
Green Penguin K.K. is a Tokyo-based provider of cutting-edge Internet solutions. Green Penguin consults with clients from start-ups to multinationals and designs and implements solutions that help clients reach further, understand faster and more completely, and operate more efficiently. Areas of focus include content management, e-commerce, and transaction metrics. Green Penguin has a very diverse staff, including Japanese and people from many other countries.
Description:
Type: Entry
Full/Part Time: Full-time
Salary from: 200,000 to 300,000 / month negotiable
Location: Tokyo, Minato-ku
Starting Date: Immediate
Responsibilities will center on support of sales and marketing of Green Penguin solutions and services, and may include industry and market research, preparation of marketing materials, and assistance with, or conduct of, sales calls and sales visits. All candidates are welcome, but this position may particularly suit Japanese female graduates, who may have spent time overseas, and are enthusiastic and ambitious in getting ahead in the Internet solutions industry.
Job Requirements:
* Familiarity with how the Internet and the World Wide Web work
* Initiative
* Ambition
* Strong interest in information technology and the ways it helps organizations achieve goals and deliver value
* Required Japanese Level: Fluent
* Required English Level: High (native not required)
To Apply:
To apply for this position, please send a resume and cover letter to jobs@broadmindedbusiness.com with job number
0328CP: Publishing Internships (unpaid)
Company Profile:
Book and/or magazine internships available with the publisher of the Being A Broad book and Weekender magazine (amongst other publications). We have had a successful internship programme for three years, with many participants becoming full-time staff within our company or continuing a publishing career in their home countries when leaving Japan.
Description:
We have a wide range of publications by and for the international community in Japan, and are quickly expanding. Work in production, advertising sales, design and layout, marketing, event planning, along with many other areas. We operate from a small, friendly, and very busy office based near Roppongi. This is a great opportunity to kick-start a career in publishing, or maintain your publishing experience if unable to work in Japan. Please note that applications from men as well as women are very welcome!
To Apply:
To apply for this position, send your resume and cover letter to Caroline Pover jobs@broadmindedbusiness.com, quoting reference number
including the following:
- why this internship interests you
- why the publishing industry interests you
- what new skills you hope to learn
- what your long-term career goals are and why you think working with us can help you achieve them
- your available schedule to work
- your long-term commitment to the position (this must be at least 6 months)
- how you plan to support yourself financially during the internship as it is unpaid
0326AB: Graphic Designer
Description:
Abinitio Design has a job opening for a graphic designer. Position will come available in the early to late spring (April-May). Salary is commensurate with experience. Please see below for job requirements.
Job Requirements:
- The ideal candidate should have at least 2-3 years experience working professionally as a graphic designer. Self-taught is acceptable but arts or arts-related education will be given preference.
- Native-English is required
- Japanese fluency is preferred
In addition to the above, the ideal candidate should also be able to
1. Conceptualize a print or web project and take it from concept through design to print or launch.
2. Interact with clients in English and/or Japanese, to establish workflow, budgets and schedules.
3. Efficiently project manage and deliver design services as a member of a multi-disciplinary creative team.
The ideal candidate should also have
1. The ability to analyze workflows, designs, presentations, and production methods and contribute ideas that will increase efficiency.
2. The ability to analyze any client’s current marketing efforts and suggest creative ideas that will differentiate them from their competitors.
Software Skills Required:
-Fluency required: QuarkXpress or Indesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Wysiwyg (Dreamweaver) or text (BBedit) html editor, Web Browsers, Word, Excel, Mail software.
-Proficiency in the following software preferred: Flash, Macintosh system (OSX), Database (Filemaker pro), Presentation (Powerpoint)
To Apply:
Email your resume to abinitio@abinitiodesign.com
or fax to 0470-87-9086, Attention: Anne Bergasse