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I-HoP:Career Guidance for Students going into PhD Course(2/27)

I-HoP:Career Guidance for Students going into PhD Course(2/27)
– How to manage career development (job hunting) while hard research work –

Hiring process of・ new graduates in Japan is very unique in world wide.
In addition, the job hunting circumstance for PhD students is quite unique as well.
Every new PhD student will focus on research when they join the PhD course, but time flies.
When they start to think about a career after PhD, it tends to be too late and they will find big difficulties to develop a career in Japan.
In this guidance, you will get the relevant and practical information on the Japanese hiring environment and the guide to manage career development while hard PhD research activity.
Join and find the bright feature with PhD.

■ Seminar date
2/27(Tue.) 15:00-16:30 (3:00pm-4:30pm)

■ Venue
Online (zoom)

■ Lecturer
Mr. Tomonori FUKASAWA
President/Emerging Technologies Corporation
Doctoral Consultant / Hokkaido University

The lecturer has been providing career support specifically to PhDs and PhD candidates for over 15 years. He has launched and developed several job-hunting services specialized in PhDs. Although he and his company mainly focus on the matching between PhDs and companies, since they have a broad network of companies and stakeholders in academia, they support the career development in academia as well.

He has made efforts to develop original career support services such as “Ph.D. AGENT” and “Ph.D.-engine wakate” all together with 8000+ users. He is also engaged in a project by universities as well as MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) on career advice including internship, job search and one-to-one career consulting for PhDs and PhD students. He has been actively pursuing the cultivation of human resources for high-skilled people with a holistic insight among industry-academic-government.

■ Target
Hokkaido University MC

■ How to apply from Hi-System
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■ Registration
By 2/20(Tue.) 16:00 (4:00pm)

■ Maximum number of participants
90 online