joblet.jp: Japan’s Distributed Job Network
As you may (or may not) know, I am currently looking for work in Tokyo. Now, this isn’t the best time of year to be doing so, especially with the problems Nova has been having - if they go under then there will be an extra several thousand starving and homeless foreigners rampaging throughout Japan, and some of those may well be looking for a new job. But with a city the size of Tokyo there are always opportunities and I have my nose hard to the job hunting grind stone!
On that note, Upstairs for thinking pointed out a nice new site: joblet.jp. Joblet: Japan Jobs Network is run by the people who bring us piqniq - Japan’s family networking site, asoboo and seekjapan.jp
Update: Joseph from Joblet.jp sent me this update about the projects they have been involved in:
As a side-note, we developed Piqniq.jp but it’s run by GOL, and Seekjapan.jp is run by the Japanzine folks, though the designer there helped out with Joblet a bit.
Still obviously in its early days, the site is a great example of the power of ruby on rails, although to my mind it looks a bit too much like ruby on rails sites always do. Once they have a few more jobs up there I imagine this will give sites like daijob and gaijinpot a real run for their money (at least joblet is a much nicer name than either daijob -dai means big - or gaijinpot). And I imagine that as they were using ruby on rails they had a lot more fun getting the site up and running.
If you are running a website focused on Japan then you may be interested to know that they are offering widgets with a pretty good compensation package - 60% (average ¥2,000) for each unique,qualified applicant you refer. Check out their website for more details.
Fingers crossed for the job search. If you know anyone who needs a foreigner with great Japanese skills, the ability to get down and funky with computer systems and a passion for writing then send me a message via the contact page.
3 Comments, Comment or Ping
Bryan
What type of job are you looking for? Also, have you taken a look at CareerForum and CareerCross? In my experience they seem to be heavily monitored by the headhunters, which can be good or bad I guess (I never had any luck with recruiters). But you never know. Oddly enough, I found my current job through Yahoo Japan jobs…actually stumbled onto it accidentally why my wife was searching for a new job.
Good luck with the job search though!
Sep 20th, 2007
Joseph
Hi, this is Joseph from The Plant (makers of Joblet). Thanks for the nice write-up and good luck with your job search!
As a side-note, we developed Piqniq.jp but it’s run by GOL, and Seekjapan.jp is run by the Japanzine folks, though the designer there helped out with Joblet a bit.
I’m glad you like the name too, I thought of it
Sep 20th, 2007
psymeg
Bryan>> Thanks for the advice. Actually in my case recruiters probably aren’t the right way to go. I have talked to a few and the thing is that they sell candidates - normally for 3-9 months of their salary. This means that if they place a senior Oracle specialist can mean they make around 5 million yen for the placement for their company, and they take a fair swig of that in commission. In my case I don’t have the experience as, say, a Linux SE, so it would be difficult to “sell” me to a company.
The Yahoo Japan Jobs tip is great! Thanks for that.
Joseph: Glad you appreciated the write up, and I hope it goes well. I will update the post to include your note.
Sep 22nd, 2007
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