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automobile technician in Japan
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automobile maintenance industry in Japan
and to live in Japan for good for free
Why don’t you make use your automobile maintenance technique in Japan?
There is a status of residence, "Specified Skilled Worker (SSW)" to accept industry-ready Filipinos who can work as immediate force in the Japanese automobile maintenance industry.
By obtaining an "SSW" visa, you will be able to work in the automobile maintenance industry after Technical Intern Training.
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Currently residing in Japan
Those who are working as technical intern trainees currently (period of stay: 3 years or 5 years) in the Japanese automobile maintenance industry while trying to obtain an "SSW" visa.
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Currently living in foreign countries
Those who worked as technical intern trainees in Japan for 3 years (or 5 years) and were candidates for SSW, but returned home since unfortunately no company that employs you found
If you want to stay in Japan and continue to work as an automobile technician, or if you want to relocate to Japan again and continue working as an automobile technician in Japan, we provide free support to find a company that employs you so that you can work as an automobile technician in Japan by taking advantage of your maintenance technique and skills of automobile maintenance.
Those who are working as technical intern trainees currently (period of stay: 3 years or 5 years) in the Japanese automobile maintenance industry can transfer their visas to "SSW" visas to continue working in Japan
For Filipinos who are currently working in the Japanese automobile maintenance industry as technical intern trainees for 3 years (or 5 years), passing 2 tests in Technical Intern Training during their stay in Japan allows them to transfer their visas to "SSW" visa and to continue working in Japan.
Flow of transferring from a Technical Intern Training visa (period of stay: 3 years or 5 years) to an "SSW" visa
Pass 2 exams during the Technical Intern Training period after relocating to Japan
During your 3-year stay as a technical intern trainee, you are required to pass 2 exams.
The two exams include beginner and professional exams and are mandatory for those who work on the Technical Intern Training visas.
Even if you pass the exams, the company that you will work for must renew your contract so that you can work.
Cautions on the transition from Technical Intern Training to SSW
(1) Technical Intern Training (i) (first year/for 1 year) does not allow the transition to SSW.
(2) Technical Intern Training (ii) (2nd to 3rd year/for 2 years) must be completed with“good evaluation” .
(3) In the case of Technical Intern Training (iii) (4th to 5th year/for 2 years), the Technical Intern Training plan must be completed (including expected completion).
Cautions on Technical Intern Training (iii)
Most visas and Technical Intern Training plans are to be applied for on a yearly basis. Formally, it is possible to transfer to SSW in the 4th year (at the end of the 1st year of (iii)), however, in general, employment contracts are often concluded for 3 years of (i) + (ii) and 2 years of (iii), and it is considered that ending (iii) after just 1 year is not preferable for the Japanese labor practice. Companies may plan 2 years of working on (iii).
If you, at your own judgment, offer to transfer to Technical Intern Training when you work on (iii) for 1 year, you may have trouble with the receiving organization or managing organization you are enrolled in when leaving the company.
In order to prevent trouble, our support service will only accept applications for those who have completed (or will complete) (iii) for 2 years.
Transfer from a "Technical Intern Training" visa to an "SSW" visa
By transferring from a "Technical Intern Training "visa to an "SSW" visa, you can work in Japan for another 5 years.
However, if you transfer to an "SSW" visa, you will need to enter into an employment contract with the company you will work for.
It is impossible to transfer to the "SSW" visa when no company informally offers a job since the “SSW” visa is issued after entering into an employment contract with the company employs you.
We have been very successful in connecting mechanics with "SSW" visas with companies hope to employ them in our own network, and they are already working well with the companies employed them.
Filipinos who want to continue working as automobile technicians in Japan.
If you do not have a luck in finding a job or have no idea how to find one, we will help you for free.
To provide you our support, we ask you for some efforts
Cautions on the transition from Technical Intern Training to SSW
* Learning Japanese.
* Asking us to find a job at your earliest convenience. (for preparation of your visa)
* No (informal) job offer already
(If you have already had a job offer, we cannot help you. When a company hires you, they go through the paperwork related to your visa and the procedure to adopt you. Turning down on the way of the procedure is rude and a violation of manners.）
Those who were candidates for SSW because they worked as technical intern trainees in Japan for 3 years (or 5 years) but did not found a job and returned home
Those who worked as technical intern trainees for 3 years (or 5 years) in the Japanese automobile maintenance industry and were qualified as candidates for SSW, but did not found a company employs you and returned home.
If you want to work as an automobile technician in Japan, we will help you find a job.
To provide you our support, we ask you for some efforts
Cautions on the transition from Technical Intern Training to SSW
* Learning Japanese.
* Asking us to find a job at your earliest convenience. (for preparation of your visa)
* No (informal) job offer already
(If you have already had a job offer, we cannot help you. When a company hires you, they go through the paperwork related to your visa and the procedure to adopt you. Turning down on the way of the procedure is rude and a violation of manners.）
What is required for SSW visa applicants
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Language skills. Japanese companies can know that you lived in Japan for 3 years.
Since communication is important for them, you need to have Japanese skills that can be used for everyday conversation.
They can tell how much you have studied Japanese in 3 years when they talk with you in Japanese.
For this reason, you need to study Japanese if you continue working in Japan.
People who learn Japanese well tend to be chosen by companies and are easily adopted.
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We take time to process visas and obtain permission to work in Japan.
It can take up to 6 months at most. Even if we are told that you want to work 1 month before your visa expires, the process will take longer.
If you want to work in Japan, contact from you a year before your visa expires would be appreciated.
Those whom we cannot provide support
Those who have already received a (informal) job offer from a company. We cannot introduce you to another company if you have a job offer.
Please refrain from receiving more than 1 job offer and choose a company with the best conditions among them.
(Since those who have already applied to a company cannot be referred to the other companies, we cannot provide support or follow-up to them. Please chose only 1 company you will apply. If you apply to more than 1 company, the procedure will be slow, and you may lose your employment opportunity. Please refrain from applying more than 1 company.）
Those whom we can provide support
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Those who plan to transfer to SSW visa or have transferred to SSW visa.
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Your current location, Japan or Philippines, does not matter.
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Those who want to work in Japan.
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Those who want to learn Japanese technique and improve their skills.
We provide support to help you find job placement in the automotive maintenance industry as a free service. Please contact us.
Steps of support
(1) Please initiate communication with us via messenger
What you need
- Residence card
- CV prepared when you (previously) relocated to Japan
(with a description of educational background and work history) Please take a picture with your smartphone and send them to us.
(2) Adjust the schedule of the interview according to your days off.
The "interview" of (2) will be conducted with the dedicated staff of Mechanic with careemore. We will check your current situation, check your background, etc., and check if you meet the required conditions to be referred to companies. It is not an "interview" with a company.
(3) On the interview day, we will interview with you via a TV phone call (ZOOM application). Purpose of the interview
- Check your Japanese language skills
- Check your technical capabilities
- Check your career
- To make your profile on your behalf
- Shooting for an appealing video
Your profile and appealing video can be viewed by our member companies
Those will be stored in the data base of Mechanic with careemore.
※ Individuals cannot browse your profile and video.
(4) A company picks you up and wishes to interview you
If a company picks you up and wishes to interview you,
an interview may be conducted between you and the company via Zoom application.
(Of course, we will join the interview)
(5) After the interview, visit the company and check the technology
If a company considers hiring you as a result of the interview, you would visit a company, meet them, and conduct an interview.
In that case, they will perform a technical check to see your technique.
* Depending on the company, there is no technical check and it may be only a TV interview.
(6) Informal job offers
Moving after the end of the contract period with the company you work for now and your new life on SSW visa begins.
(5) After the interview, technical check at the designated institution
If a company considers hiring you as a result of the interview, At a designated organization in the Philippines, we will check your technique while shooting video of the technical check or online in real time.
We will perform a technical check to see your technique.
* Depending on the company, there is no technical check and it may be only a TV interview.
(6) Informal job offers
You would relocate to Japan and start the new job.
Past employment cases
March 2021, 3 people who were hired as SSWs
They worked in Japan for 3 years on their Technical Intern Training visas.
As their 3-year contract ended, they searched for their next companies.
They joined Toyota's authorized dealership in Mie prefecture.
As transferring to SSW visas while making use of their experience in their Technical Intern Training, they achieved 2 things: employment and upskilling.
Reason why they were hired!
The number-one reason was their Japanese language skills. It was a big indication to be hired that they had studied Japanese very hard.
The number-two reason is their communication skills. At dealerships, people tend to work valuing teamwork.
Since they were able to initiate communication instead of waiting to be spoken to, they were hired.
The number-three is that they were familiar with Japanese working style and life culture.
Advice from them
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At any rate, learning Japanese language. It would be better to study Japanese hard during your 3 years of Technical Intern Training.
In addition, understand how Japanese people proceed with their work.
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I studied of Japanese hard. It is necessary to study enough to be able to have conversation by memorizing the meanings well.
And we, Filipinos, have much pride. In my previous workplace, I had a Filipino junior colleague with much pride.
His pride was in the way of doing well according to the instructions from his boss.
Even though, Japanese people we worked with were kind to taught him. I thought that it would not be good to have much pride.
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Interviews are conducted in only Japanese. You will be very nervous. If you don't understand Japanese, you would nervous more and forget more Japanese words.
We need to study Japanese hard on a routine basis not to forget Japanese words even when you are nervous.
Their next goal after becoming an SSW!
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My goal is to obtain a Japanese maintenance technician license and transfer my visa and work in Japan for a long time.
For this goal, I will do my best to study Kanji.
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My goal is to obtain a Japanese maintenance technician license and transfer my visa and work in Japan for a long time.
Eventually, I want to learn Japanese language and Japanese maintenance techniques so that I can get a permanent residence visa!
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First of all, I want to study Japanese hard and get a Japanese maintenance technician license!
Difficulties when transferring to SSW
Arranging with the mover was the hardest. We have to make arrangements by ourselves (in Japanese)
In addition, since it is a long-distance movement across Japan, it is necessary to make arrangements and look up things so as not to take a wrong public transportation.
We provide support to help you find job placement in the automotive maintenance industry as a free service.
Please contact us. We provide support to help you find job placement in the automotive maintenance industry as a free service.
Please contact us.