Our Career Center provides a range of support services to assist you in the process of job hunting in Japan. If you are seeking employment in Japan after graduation, we recommend you start the process early. Here is a list of support services the Career Center provides:

• Dissemination of information and consultation concerning job hunting in Japan (including resume critique, mock interview practice, and career counseling)
• Job hunting seminars specifically catered towards international students
• Consultations for international students partaking in company research seminars where recruiting staff across Japan gather at Hokkaido University to explain their corporations and the industries.
• Support with internships

For visa related inquiries regarding transitioning from a student visa to a work visa, please visit our “Want to Remain In Japan ?” page or go to the Immigration Services Agency Website.

The Career Center also provides a handbook (Japanese version only) that explains job hunting in
Japan. This is available as a digital book.

Career Path Support for PhD Students and Postdocs

The Center for Advanced Human Resource Education and Development provides support for doctoral course students and those who wish to enter a doctoral course to improve their skills and choose a career path that will allow them to utilize their expertise and play an active role in society.

Please see the website of Center for Advanced Human Resource Education and Development for more information.

1. S-cubic

S-cubic promotes career development support activities for graduate students.

It provides a wide range of in-depth services to help master’s course students (MC) who are considering entering a doctoral course, doctoral course students (DC), and postdoctoral researchers (PD) to know about and choose a variety of career paths. For instance, it provides them with the necessary information and practical skills not easily obtained within the university to enter the industry, creates opportunities for matching them with companies, holds individual career counseling sessions, and organizes internship programs.

Programs of S-cubic can be broadly divided into two categories:

1. support for knowledge acquisition and skill development, and
2. exchange and matching with companies.

Please see the website of S-cubic for more information.

2. I-HoP

I-HoP offers an international human resource development program in English for young international researchers at Hokkaido University to support their careers.

Please see the web page of I-HoP for more information.

3. COFRe

COFRe provides graduate students at Hokkaido University with various career support programs offered by partner universities.

Please see the website of COFRe for more information.