The number of people from abroad who live in Japan is 2,820,000, and 1,460,000 are working. They work in Manufacture, construction, retail, education industry or else.
But digital marketing industry is recommended job in Japan for people from abroad.
The reasons why it is recommended is below.
- Growth of Industry
- Increasing Global Projects
- Company Hiring Inexperienced Workers
- Non-Japanese Speaker Can Work
- Acquiring Special Skills
- High Income
Let’s see details about each topics.
1.Growth of Industry
Digital industry in Japan has been continuing over 10% growth every year.
When you get a new job, it is important to work in growing industry. If you work in declining industry, it might be difficult to increase salary or go bankrupt.
On the other hands, digital marketing industry growing is expected to continue in the future.
2.Increasing Global Projects
Now, Japanese digital marketing companies have high demand for people from abroad. This is because, increasing global projects.
Japan have gone into the phase of population reduction. Japanese companies need to find new customers in other countries. To understand market in other countries, they are looking for employees form the country.
Japanese goverment also focusing on increasing travelers from another countries. So, lots of project to promote Japanese sight-seeing spot to many countries.
From those reasons, Japanese companies have high demand for people from western countries such as US, Canada, EU, Australia. And also Asian countries such as Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand, China, Taiwan, Hong Kong etc.
3.Company Hiring Inexperienced Workers
If you do not have any experience about marketing or didn’t graduated from marketing related university, you do not need to worry about that.
It is common to hire inexperienced workers in Japan even in mid-career recruitment. And also the high demand helps inexperienced workers get job.
Of course, you need to learn a lot after starting working. In job interviews, it is enough to tell your passion for work or any skills related to marketing.
※If you want to work as a designer or engineer, you need experience or portfolio.
4.Non-Japanese Speaker Can Work
If you can’t speak Japanese, you can still apply for digital marketing jobs. Most global marketing departments set English as their standard language.
If you can speak Japanese, it will become strong advantage. Another languages other than English or japanese will also help you such as Chinese, Korean, Vietnamese, Thai.
5.Acquiring Special Skills
A benefit to work in digital marketing industry is being able to acquire special skills to person, and it helps employees step up their career.
For example, if you work as a content team, you can get skills about SEO and writing. If you work as a Google Ads operator, you can work in another company as a same task.
Once you get skills about digital marketing, career option you can choose will expand widely.
6.High Income
Generally, income of people from abraod is not high. Its average monthly income is around JPY 220,000（US＄2,000）.
But in digital marketing industry, you can earn JPY 300,000 from the beginning. And continuing to increase as getting careers.
If you are going to work in Japan, you can get more details in this japanese digital marketing web magazine.