Getting To Know Tokutei Ginou: How To Work In Japan With High Salaries

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Japan is one of the countries in Asia that is advanced and a source of world economic power. To overcome this problem, the Japanese government launched the Tokutei Ginou or Specified Skilled Worker (SSW) program.

Offering attractive opportunities for individuals who wish to develop a career in the international environment, through this article let's get to know the Ginou tokutei more deeply.

Reporting from the Work Japan page, Visa Tokutei Ginou or Special Skills Worker Visa, is a new type of visa introduced recently in April 2019 by the Japanese government for foreign nationals coming to Japan.

This visa helps entrepreneurs hire trained foreigners under 14 special industries. The industries currently identified under this policy are:

In addition, several other industries are also being discussed to be included in this auspices.

Unlike other work visas, where applicants must have a university degree or experience before, Special Skills Worker visas do not require a title, and visa holders are given the opportunity to upgrade status to Permanent Residents in Japan.

If you are already in Japan on a Technical Job Training visa, you can directly upgrade to a Special Skills Worker visa after completing your training period.

Thus, this method also allows you to stay in Japan or change companies. For example, you may want to move to an urban area where wages are higher.

To apply for a Tokutei Ginou visa, you must have knowledge of Japanese and must pass the JLPT (N4 or higher depending on the industry).

In addition, you must also have a certain level of skills in the industry that you page. A recognized certificate and/or experience of at least 1-2 years will be very helpful.

To get this visa, you must pass the Immunity test To get a Special Skills Worker visa. You need to pass a Japanese language test as well as a skill skill test for the industry where you train.

However, as mentioned above, if you have completed Engineering Job Training, you don't need to pass this test unless you want to change the industry where you work.

Then if you switch from another type of visa As mentioned earlier, you don't need to take a proficiency test if you have completed Engineering Work Training with satisfactory value.

However, to work in different fields of your current field, you need to take a skill test for the industry.

Please note, anyone holding a Student visa can also go through a test process and convert their visa into Tokutei Ginou.

Now many students take the Special Skills Worker test while undergoing the normal work search process (under the Humanities visa).

If they fail to get a job under a Humaniora visa, they turn visas into Determined Activities while looking for work under a Humaniora visa and try to pass Tokutei Ginou's skill test.

In this way students can continue their stay in Japan and secure it with high-paying jobs.

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