Working oppertunities for a psych graduate?

[kaity]

Hi everyone!
I am going to be doing my honours (4th year) in psychology next year and the following year, in 2010, my boyfriend and I are off to live in Japan for a year!
I am wondering whether anyone has any ideas of working opportunities for me that would be relevant to psychology? I would love to get work experience in my area while over there!
Any idea would be great ^_^
Thanks!

[josiah]

i doubt it,
not that i know all the ins and outs, but i had a jap friend in australa who did her degree in aus in psych but decided she would do her honours in japan cos if she did all her studies in aus then she wouldnt be able to work in japan.
i also suppose that you'd need a high level of japanese for this kind of job too.

perhaps u could find work with a foreign company in japan for foreigners?

[jkid]

Hi Kaity,
English teaching is perhaps the most common job for foreigners here in Japan because foreign language instructors are in such high demand and because it is a job that (often) does not require a high level of Japanese competency.

Other jobs are of course available to those from outside of Japan but generally work outside of the teaching field requires fluent if not native level competence in Japanese. So please bear that in mind. If your not fluent yet, keep using JPOD and it won't take too long

I did a search on
http://www.gaijinpot.com/ which is a popular website to search for jobs open to foreigners in Japan but I unfortunately received no results.

I also tried http://www.academicjobseu.com but again no results were returned at this stage for psychology related work in Japan.

You might like to refer to http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/careers/student/overseas/global.html#Japan

This site seems to have an extensive list of job search sites specific to Japan. You never know, you just might find something. Good luck!