Continue job hunting? Honest messages from seniors who took a leave of absence and did an internship abroad.

First person is Tatsuo Yamazaki. He took one year absence from the 4th year of university and he worked at Japanese NGO called Kamonohashi Project in Cambodia as an intern. He got a job at a company having a business in Cambodia since he gave shape to his future image which had been vague through the internship abroad.

Second guy is Kenshi Suzuki. He stopped job hunting in the middle and did an intern at GFA doing Football business in Singapore.

Third one is Midori Takahashi. She worked as an intern at Kamonohashi Project like Tatsuo. Currently, she works for a food company from learning gained the internship abroad in Cambodia.

Last one is Shinnosuke Yoshida.
He was engaged in an internship for six months each by a travel agency and an educational system NGO in New Delhi, India. Currently he is employed by an education company that conducts business overseas.

90 pints. It was good to participate in the internship abroad. I was able to achieve my goal of having experience working in developing countries while attending college. From the connection which I got in the internship abroad, I found the job what is suit for me and succeeded job hunting.

100-points. I am feeling it was good overall. I am enjoying my environment now and don’t have any regrets that I should have gone elsewhere. Moreover, I think that there was only here what I sought. I wouldn’t be the person I am today if I didn’t join the internship abroad so including it, the score is 100 points.

100 points. Because I took a leave of absence, I could see, experience, and think the world in long-term rather than short-term. That year was much worthwhile.

95 points. The good pioints are,
1. I was able to explore what I wanted to do because of the time created by taking a leave of absence
2. Listening to the career plans of friends I met in the internship abroad, I was stimulated and could refer to
3. Through the internship abroad, I was able to review what I could do and what skills I was missing

I did not regret it. There was vague concern that taking a leave of absence for one year have a negative impact on job hunting before I took a leave of absence.
In actual job hunting after the internship abroad, I did not feel that having a leave of absence had a negative influence in job hunting. In addition, the vague feeling that I wanted to work overseas after graduation changed to the specifical vision by the experience of the internship abroad. Finally, I was able to get a job with clearer what I was seeking.

I have no regrets about taking a leave of absence. Rather, there are a lot of things that seems to be good for taking a leave of absence. The reason is that I had the reason why I wanted to take a leave of absence and the experience during the leave was only positive for me. There were many people who chose to take a leave of absence around me, and because I saw the people enjoying, I never felt uneasy about job hunting and the future cause of taking a leave of absence.

Although I had trouble with being late from graduation one year, in the long-term internship abroad, I could get real experience that I couldn’t get in the university, recognize my assumption, and felt the gap of reality in India. And I felt that my anxiety was a tiny thing compared to what I gained through the internship abroad. And I didn’t regret because I could meet my irreplaceable experience and friends.

Since I was proud that I could do different things with other people at the time I decided to join the internship abroad, I thought that the delay of graduation was not negative. Actually, I did not regret because my thought was true.

I had vague anxiety. Because I thought that taking a leave of absence brought disadvantages in job hunting. When I started my internship abroad, I stopped thinking about it. Also, as there was a person around me who was also taking a leave of absence, there was a sense of security to understand that it was not only myself that I was taking a leave of absence.

There was no anxiety. I thought that I could have much better experience in the internship abroad than hob hunting for what I wanted to do in the future. And I felt strongly the expectation rather than anxiety.

Rather, I was worried about doing job hunting without my goal and what I wanted to do. So I did not have anxiety about taking a leave of absence while my friends doing job hunting.

There was some anxiety. I heard from my friend the hard side of job hunting. When they tried to apply a job post, it was closed and they were not able to respond to interview questions well something like that. However, in the long term, there is no need to narrow down the place of work to one, so I could easily get used to do job hunting after my internship abroad.

I think that you are anxious and require courageous to do different things while your friends are doing job hunting. But by taking courage a little, the world opens. If there is something you are suffering from in yourself, just by talking what you’d like to do to others, and going to an event, I think that you can open the way. Good luck!

Don’t think that job hunting is not an absolute option. Those who have a goal, if you see only one path that goes to the goal right now, try looking for other options. Those who don’t have a goal, if you are not convinced about the current state, try looking for a slightly different option. Since there is absolutely not a single goal and the path of what will be the goal in the future, there should be various ways. Afterward a little courage, I think that you can discover another world different from now if you take just one step forward. Do your best!

After graduation, I feel half of my life is work, every day. After graduation, I feel half of my life is work, every day! At such time, if your job is what you want to do, you can get over it no matter how tough it is! Recently, I think straightforwardly that people who are facing straight to what they want to do are really cool! Do not choose your way halfway, first know about yourself firmly and decide face to face with your heart straightforwardly. I think these two are important!

Since I was not confident of myself, I decided to do an internship abroad in order to do different things from other people and make a difference. What I can say with the experience of the internship abroad is that “what you want to do” is much more important than “what you did”. It was internship abroad that I came to find it.