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Read the community guidelinesThe speed at which interviews are scheduled is very fast, and the response about whether you were selected after the interview is also very quick. There are quite a lot of jobs, with many options to choose from.
I was referred to a new job through Bova. After three days of training, I finished providing my personal information and asked where I should submit it. I was told that the relevant documents would be sent to me later, but halfway through the training I still had not received them. When I asked, I was told that they would only be sent after my start date was confirmed, and that I should send them back together with the documents issued by my current company. I had officially been working for three days with no news, so I thought the documents were paper copies and asked when I would receive them. Only then was I told that they would email them to me soon, and that I should print them out and mail the paper copies back. What the ..... How many days does it take to send an email? The bank account information they sent also contained errors, and those documents were exactly the same as the new-hire documents my current company had given me. Then they simply said that I only needed to send back the ones they had sent me. I also had to keep asking before they would tell me the exact dates for adding and removing me from the labor and health insurance. Friends who are applying for jobs referred by this company, please be sure to protect your own rights. If you do not keep asking until you get clear answers, they will gloss over everything or simply not tell you. The Bova staff seem very careless. The referred jobs are good, but the staffing company’s procedures and conduct are extremely frustrating.
1. Colleagues get along relatively well.
2. Punctual working hours.
1. No bonuses or benefits. The year-end bonus is so little that one visit to TGI Fridays wipes it out (do the math yourself). Not receiving a pay stub is a given, and it is unclear whether the labor and health insurance are being handled correctly.
2. The boss is unpredictable; only the boss is right. Regardless of whether what the boss asks you to do can be finished in time or is right or wrong, you just do it.
3. You may be inexplicably made a scapegoat. It is not unusual for five people to resign voluntarily because they could not last a month.
4. If you remind the boss and the boss forgets, it is your fault because you did not keep reminding them.
5. The boss may ask for things at any time; if you do not have them ready, you are considered incompetent.
6. Whenever something troublesome is related to work, colleagues will find all kinds of ways to shirk responsibility. The sooner they pass it off, the better.
Interviewing for a full-time position in Japan; all the interviewers were very friendly and talkative.
There were three interviewers in total. When I arrived at the company with my résumé, they gave me a dedicated form to fill out.
However, some of the questions were rather impolite (and no one explained this before I filled it out).
For example, whether I had any experience using illegal drugs, whether I had ever been hospitalized for psychiatric treatment (including the exact year, month, and day), and so on.
They also asked me to provide the names, job titles, and phone numbers of the supervisors from my previous two companies so they could inquire about my work performance.
Aside from the résumé leaving a somewhat negative impression, the interview process itself went quite smoothly.
Although there were three interviewers, only the one who joined partway through could speak Japanese.
Another mainly conducted the interview in Chinese, while the third was responsible for recording the interview and providing explanations.
They said that the Japanese company happened to be moving, so the interview was handled by the Taiwanese company instead.
Also, since I live very close to their company, I was directly invited to an on-site interview.
Therefore, my experience may be somewhat different from everyone else’s (?).
Except that the interviewer who conducted the entire interview in Chinese was slightly casual in attitude, everyone else was very okay.
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Upon entering, there was not even a reception desk. The options on the application form were very strange, and the interviewer was extremely unprofessional. They even asked whether I was single and whether I planned to get married, expressing concern that I would not stay long. Communication was also very incomplete, making the interviewee come in three times. It felt like they only wanted to appropriate ideas and had no intention of hiring for this position. The internal culture seemed very traditional, and employees are expected to reply to the boss’s messages even in the middle of the night.
The interviewer will ask you about your understanding of the Labor Standards Act, which shows that the company places great importance on professionalism.
You won’t know until you join the company.