Podcasts by Life After JET
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Making a Difference: Humanitarian Work and Education from 2020-09-01T00:00
After JET, many would continue on in careers in education, community building or public service. For my guest, he has managed to combine all of these into an international career that has covered a...
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Good PR: Marketing and Public Relations from 2020-08-02T23:00:06
Does the marketing and PR industry have, well, bad PR? My guest, Alex Varney, and I discuss this in a deep-dive into the industry. It may be a question of semantics, and a fine line between positiv...
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Performance Art: The Actor from 2020-07-21T00:00
If you've ever laughed at a Youtube clip, or played a video game, then chances are you've come across the work of my guest for this episode - Michael T Coleman. He's helped write and/or performed o...
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Film and Politics from 2020-07-05T23:00:01
We head to the arts for our next theme, with our guest, filmmaker Gavin Hugh. In addition, we'll be getting into some political discussions, as Gavin also works for a member of the Scottish parliam...
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A Life's Journey: Life in the Arctic from 2020-06-08T00:00
Continuing with the theme about the meandering path of life, our guest has certainly done her fair share of travelling and career paths (diving instructor, tour manager and marketing director, recr...
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A Life's Journey: Living at the Temple from 2020-05-24T23:00:03
If there's a theme for the next couple of episodes, it will be about the meandering journey of life, ending up in unexpected but wonderful places. Our guest went back on JET the second time, and wi...
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Choices in Life and Work: Recruiting from 2020-05-11T00:00
Our guest Amanda Chau works as a recruiter and HR consultant in Japan, and recently was a speaker/mentor at the After JET Conference for JET leavers in 2020. So she is in a unique position of knowi...
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AfterJET... More JET from 2020-05-04T00:00
When one finishes JET, sometimes the next step is... more JET. In concluding the theme of past JETs working in public service, we fudge the definition a bit and feature a JET unicorn: our guest Mat...
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Be Our Guest: Promoting Tourism from 2020-04-20T00:00
Tourism is one of those careers that is a good fit for JETs - after all, we are passionate advocates for our second homes in Japan, and have explored every nook and cranny, probably more so than lo...
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Reading the Air: Working at the Consulate from 2020-04-06T00:30:53
What's it like working in the Japanese public sector? We'll spend several episodes talking to guests who work in different government and non-profit organisations. Our guest Rafael Villadiego worke...
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A Short Update for 2020 from 2020-04-03T23:37:59
Hello everyone! It's been a while. A short update about our podcast.
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A Life's Journey: The Mentor from 2018-07-13T11:31:10
The closest description that one can use for what our guest does for a living, would be "life coach", though Andy Chaleff would agree that it's usually hard to quantify. In this episode, we talk ab...
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For the People: The Advocate (Part 2) from 2018-06-11T10:25:43
Our second of our 2 part episode and this time around we get down to talking about life after JET. It can feel like a step "backwards" in some sense, going from having your own apartment and indepe...
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For the People: The Advocate (Part 1) from 2018-06-11T10:13:40
What started out as a conversation about documentary film making quickly moved into discussion on refugee and asylum seeker issues in America, particularly with the current administration. While jo...
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Make Your Own Career: The Entrepreneur from 2018-04-19T10:38:07
Despite the economy, state of the world, etc, it's never been easier to pursue your dream job, even if it means creating your own unique job title and career. Being an entrepreneur however can be a...
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Revisiting Teaching After JET from 2017-06-11T14:14:44
In this episode I return to the discussion of teaching as a career, this time with a trainee teacher, and another who is a tutor at university. We talk about the differences between pupils in Japan...
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Picture it: The Photographer from 2017-06-08T13:33:53
We've talked a lot about turning hobbies into a career, and my guest Julius Pang (ALT 2004-2007 Kitakyushu) not only became a professional photographer, he combined it with his love of Japan and st...
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Front Page News: The Journalist from 2017-05-11T13:18:24
Do you have the write stuff (I had this pun, I needed to use it)? A passion for writing, reporting on social issues and events (and yoga) led our next guest, Shannon Lough, around the world and int...
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The Art of Life: The Freelance Artist from 2017-04-30T13:12:28
Being an artist is not just a job, but a way of life. Many of us may have once dreamed about a creative career - drawing, painting or writing, but usually feel that the reality of paying bills and ...
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Science of Crime: Forensic Investigation from 2017-03-29T12:42:25
Content Advisory Warning: In this episode, we talk about the work and experience relating to forensic investigation. If you're uncomfortable with talk about autopsies, etc, you might want to skip f...
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The Global Classroom: The Teacher from 2017-03-03T11:38:31
The vast majority of JETs work as ALTs, or Assistant Language Teachers. Therefore it's no surprise that some would continue that into an actual career in education. However, being a teacher can ope...
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Love What You Do: The Life Coach from 2017-02-18T08:46:57
We speak to Andrea Jacques, who was involved with the After JET conferences in the 90s as a careers and life coach. She is also the founder and head of Kyosei Consulting, and has published a book, ...
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The Intern: CLAIR's Job Placement Program from 2017-01-17T10:45:46
In 2016, CLAIR began the first ever work experience placements at participating companies in Kansai and Kanto area, for a period of a week, open to CIRs from 3rd year and up. We speak to two JETs w...
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Word it Right: Content Marketing - Part 2 from 2017-01-17T10:34:40
We continue with our discussion on content marketing - this time co-host David Reiling talks about his experience and his circuitous but highly eventful track to content marketing.
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Word it Right: Content Marketing - Part 1 from 2016-08-13T00:00
Content and digital marketing - some of the hottest jobs right now are in this area of online writing and promotions. We talk to Misty Ahmadi who works in content marketing at IBM, about her job an...
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Roll of the Dice: The OPC - Part 2 from 2016-07-26T00:00
Roll of the Dice: The OPC - 2
In this second part, we get into the more fun, geeky aspects of our discussion - about how Magic: The Gathering gets made (content-wise), and what's fuelling ...
Roll of the Dice: The OPC - Part 1 from 2016-07-21T00:00
Analog games! We've all played them - board games and card games, famous examples being Settlers of Catan and Magic: The Gathering. A good board game can be addictive - last year, at Oz Comic Con, ...
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Serious Play: The Game Master from 2016-07-07T00:00
We talk about what it's like to work as a game master for a Tokyo mobile gaming company. See ma, playing games instead of studying CAN get you a job.
Guest: Leslie (Game Master) and intr...
Working in IT in Japan - Part 2 from 2016-05-10T00:00
Part 2 of our discussion about the IT industry and working in Japan. In this 2nd part, we talk about online job searching, the intricacies of preparing a Japanese-style resume, and also the intervi...
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Working in IT in Japan - Part 1 from 2016-05-03T00:00
Job hunting in Japan? Looking for IT roles? So you want to work in Japan, but what's it like? We discuss whether language proficiency is important (watch out for keigo!), IT career options, on the ...
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