CRB Tech - a trusted name and a front running online training and career development partner recently conducted a webinar on ‘Japanese for Career Growth’. As the name suggests, the webinar threw light on how Japanese proficiency can help an aspirant from a career (growth) perspective. The webinar received an overwhelming response, with more than 500+ students attending it!

The focus of the webinar was on making the attendees understand the benefits of knowing a language like Japanese and becoming proficient in it, for their overall career development and growth.

JLPT is a standard criteria based test to assess, verify, and confirm the proficiency level of non-native speakers as well as the learners, is what he stated. In line with this, the speaker who himself happened to be a Japanese language expert from the industry, began by introducing the students to the Japanese Language Proficiency Test i.e. JLPT. According to him, this is the first step for those who are looking to learn Japanese from a professional perspective. Here is the summary of what the language expert explained during the Japanese webinar.

Going further, he informed that JLPT consists of five levels i.e. N1, N2, N3, N4, and N5.

N5 – It is meant for beginners. Under this, students need to learn nearly 100 Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana (readings + pronunciations) and nearly 400-500 Japanese words along with Japanese grammar basics.

N4 – This level consists of listening and comprehending daily conversations. Approx. 1500 Japanese words and 300 Kanji are required, is what the speaker mentioned.

N3 – One becomes capable of listening, reading and understanding daily conversations at almost normal speed. Near about 3000 to 4000 Japanese words and 600-700 Kanjis are required.

N2 – Individuals who have reached this level are acknowledged to possess upper intermediate conversational ability and they can state it in their resume. The level goes up here to 6000 words and 1000 Kanji is what the expert added.

N1 – This is the highest level showing topmost proficiency. In simple language, one has now become a Japanese expert with near native proficiency. 10,000+ words and 2000-2500 Kanjis are required is what the speaker informed the students.

With reference to various studies and research, the expert also came up with real-time data and some stats during his talk. The stats revealed that knowing a language like Japanese along with technical skills have resulted in higher salary packages for the aspirants. That’s because of that additional skill in foreign language. This information was encouraging for the students who were present at the seminar.

The webinar concluded with a Q&A session where students asked their doubts to the career experts.

One of the students, Prakash who attended the Japanese webinar asked “Which is the minimum level that one should attain to get a good job offer?”

While answering the question, the speaker referred to the various levels (N5-N1) in Japanese. He, being a Japanese professional, recommended the N3 level for getting a good job and salary package.

Suman, yet another student attending the webinar asked “Where can we appear for the JLPT?”

One can take the test across the major cities in Japan. For those who wish to take the test outside of Japan, they can find the exam conducting cities in their respective country by searching “Local Host Institutions of JLPT”.

In their feedback post the webinar, the students expressed that they found the webinar to be informative, and made them realize the importance of having a bilingual skillset i.e. English and a foreign language, along with core domain knowledge.

CRB, with its vast experience in this field, has been providing bilingual (Japanese) training as a part of its IT, Engineering and Healthcare training programs, for a number of years now. As per reports, this has benefited many of their students in getting good placements in MNCs, with high salary packages. Student CRBtech reviews on the web are proof of this.

Towards the end of the webinar, the students were also briefed about the domain wise online bilingual courses on offer from CRB Tech reviews. Right from Java to Clinical Research training program. The students were also told about the other offerings of these courses like funding, opportunity to earn and learn, interview training, unlimited placement calls from CRB Tech placement etc.