(2016-05-31, 5:54 am)vix86 Wrote: Fixed, they don't have the www subdomain setup apparently.
For some reason I still don't understand, Japanese websites always seem to mess up domain names somehow.
And yeah, that's the website I was using (although vix86 already knows
). Some posts earlier in the thread made me think TheVinster wasn't into programming kind of jobs though.Just a word of warning: they sent a shit ton of email. They sent emails all during the weekday with things like comics about how to find a job, how to do interviews, etc. Maybe it might just be because I signed up as a student.
They also have apologized twice in the past week because one of the companies I applied to before, who admittedly has been less than ideal throughout the entire interview process, has taken so long to tell the guys running the website the results of my interview from like two/three weeks ago.
Some useful things to know about the website:
1) It's kind of a do-it-yourself kind of style recruiter website. They take 25% of your salary as commission (the company that hires you pays, not you). I don't think they really deserve that much because I do most of the work, but it's a useful website still. The same guy handles all communication between companies and job seekers from what I can tell.
2) You can't communicate with the companies directly. That's on purpose, and the admins of the website do as much as they can to discourage companies from communicating with job seekers directly. You have to respond to the email you get from the website with status updates and your 募集ID and the guy I mentioned in bullet point 1 will act as an intermediate between you and the company. The only time they willingly let the company and I communicate with each other directly is when it was decided they wanted to fly me out to Japan and so we needed to exchange a bunch of information to set things up.
3) You have to do most of the effort to find a job and take interviews. But, in the emails you get after applying for places, it *does* mention that you have the option to respond to the email asking for interviewing tips or ask any questions you have. I have yet to take advantage of this service yet, but it's an option.
4) Companies give you direct feedback after your interview, which gets summarized by the same person from bullet point 1. You are also expected to give feedback after an interview. This is REALLY nice because it gives you an idea of how the company was feeling after the interview and what they liked.
5) 2/3rds of the companies I've interviewed with so far have decided and told me before the end of the interview if they wanted to proceed with the next interview or not. The feedback thing from bullet point 4 comes usually a day or so later. I think the website encourages or puts some pressure on the companies to make quick decisions and work within the expected flow of the website.