Author Archive for: ALTInsider

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ141.mp3 This week I give my exist interview with the questions being asked by the new host of the show… Charlie! The show is definitely in good hands. Enjoy, and thanks. Right-Click to Download

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ138.mp3 This week Charley drops in to talk with me and Anming about how he started his career in Japan with startups, ending up with his current HR position with Zenmarket. Charley on Linked

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ136.mp3 This week I introduce my new cohost, Anming, and we go over how to make Youtube a job while in Japan, or anywhere else really. Feedback is especially important on this episode, since this

This week I go over why you need to do an On-demand Interview on jobsinjapan.com if you haven’t already. Seriously. If you want to work in Japan and aren’t currently, there is no reason for

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ134.mp3 This week as the last show of the year I go through what I think are the two types of people that are most successful in Japan, and what makes them so. I also

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ133.mp3 This week I go over a great video that you all should check out about 3 hidden truths of dispatch English teaching companies. Go watch the video first, then listen to this for maximum

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ132.mp3 This week Peter from JobsinJapan.com dropped in to give us a direct line to the current pulse of the job market in Japan. Are things improving? Still doom and gloom? Is it actually a

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ126.mp3 This week we continue the 10-week leaving Japan special with questions and answer episode with questions I got from people on twitter, Facebook and the discord. Good grab bag of stuff. Only two episodes

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ125.mp3 This week we continue the 10-week leaving Japan special with the tale of me making the jump from ALT work to 100% freelance. It was scary, (and frankly still is scary), but I’ve managed

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ124.mp3 This week we continue the 10-week leaving Japan special with an overview of starting this very website and podcast. It’s in a very different place than it was in 2015, but I’m happy with

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ123.mp3 This week we continue the 10-week leaving Japan special with an overview of how I studied Japanese, why my Japanese knowledge is hemorrhaging (though I am a freelance translator), and what I would do

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ121.mp3 This week we continue the  10-week leaving Japan special with my retrospective of my ALT career. It includes what I did well, what i did not so well, what I would do differently, and

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ120.mp3 This week we continue the 10-week leaving Japan special with some the beginning of my work in Japan, which started at the now defunct Eikaiwa, GEOS. Listen and learn about my overall thoughts of Eikaiwa

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ119.mp3 This week we start the 10-week leaving Japan special with some of my backstory, why I actually came to Japan, and my experience of actually landing and getting ready to start my first job in

https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/altinsider/IJ118.mp3 This week Tony from Japankyo.com and The Japan Station podcast drops in to share his tale of working in Japan as a JET, and then keeping his “working in Japan” career alive, even after