On April 16, 2022, Cao Thang Technical College (CTTC) organized a seminar "Learning Japanese - Opportunities to work at Japanese enterprises" for its students and attracted a large number of participants, especially students majoring in Mechatronics - KOSEN here.

Dr. Nguyen Thanh Phuoc - Head of Mechatronics Department of CTTC hosted the workshop along with lots of students

Speaking at the conference, Dr. Le Dinh Kha - Principal of CTTC discussed with students about the advantages of graduating from school and having the additional Japanese language, he emphasized: Graduating from the KOSEN Mechatronics program at Cao Thang Technical College, students will receive many career advantages because of recognition by the KOSEN association in Japan, and career introduction support, KOSEN's business in both Vietnam and Japan. Besides, the school also has many policies to help students improve their Japanese language skills.

Dr. Le Dinh Kha - Principal of CTTC discussed the development potential of students when learning Japanese

Following Dr. Kha's speech, Prof. Hayashida Eiji - Chief Representative of KOSEN office in Vietnam also gave a speech about job opportunities in Japan. In his speech, Prof. Hayashida provided information about the relationship between knowing Japanese and the working benefits that students will get if they are equipped with Japanese. Prof. Hayashida shared: "If you know Japanese and have technical skills, you will have a higher chance of finding a job in Japan, especially the opportunity to advance in your career." At the same time, he also said some of the reasons why young people in Vietnam in particular and the world in general, have chosen to work in the Japanese environment. In particular, Prof. Hayashida also presented the employment situation of KOSEN students after graduation. Thereby, he also provided career guidance to students majoring in Mechatronics at CTTC about job opportunities in Japan.

Prof. Hayashida - Chief Representative of KOSEN office in Vietnam shared about working opportunities in Japan

Professor Hayashida Eiji further shared: students graduating from the KOSEN program have the opportunity to be recruited to work in companies in Japan if they have N3 standard Japanese language ability. When working in Japan, students have many opportunities for career advancement.

In addition, graduates of the KOSEN program are also given priority in recruiting job positions for Japanese companies in Vietnam. Working in Vietnam, the job does not require high Japanese language ability. However, the ability to advance at work will be more difficult. Because high-level job positions require both professional capacity and Japanese language ability to communicate and contact partners in Japan.

Communication is necessary in daily life as well as at work. However, to live and work in Japan, we need to learn Japanese. Coming to the seminar, there was also Mr. Cao Dinh Cuong - a 2003 alumnus of the Information Technology major, currently the director of EDSION HCM Co., Ltd., 100% capital from Japan, attending. Mr. Cuong has worked for a company in Japan for more than 4 years. From the difficulties when he first came to Japan to live and work, Mr. Cuong made an effort to learn Japanese to overcome language barriers. Currently, he has returned to Vietnam and works as a director for a Japanese company in Vietnam. In addition to his professional capacity and management ability, using Japanese is an important tool to help him complete his daily tasks. Mr. Cuong shared about the role of language in work and his experience learning Japanese. Through his speech, Mr. Cuong helped students orient and motivate them to clearly understand the importance of learning Japanese right from when they were students. Mr. Cuong also emphasized that setting goals and building your own journey is very important. He said students need to determine what is the purpose of learning Japanese?; What benefits will be gained if learning Japanese? From big goals, students need to set smaller goals and set up stages to achieve each goal.

Mr. Cao Dinh Cuong – alumnus of CTTC  presented about the role of language in work and his experience learning Japanese

Dr. Le Dinh Kha, Principal of CTTC  gave souvenirs to guests participating in the conference

Finally, the workshop had the presence of Ms. Ngo Thi Thanh Binh - Deputy Head of the Department of Science and Technology - International Cooperation, head of the foreign language center of Cao Thang Technical College. Coming to the workshop, Ms. Binh shared about the school's efforts to provide Japanese language knowledge and skills to students. She hopes that through the Japanese language classes of the foreign language center at the school, students will be inspired to learn Japanese. In addition, Ms. Binh also presented the support of the foreign language center and the school if students want to learn Japanese as well as creating conditions for students to have more career guidance sessions about employment in the Japanese environment.

Ms. Ngo Thi Thanh Binh - Deputy Head of the Department of Science and Technology - International Cooperation shared about the school's support if students want to learn Japanese

The sharing of Ms. Binh and the guests attracted a lot of attention from the students at the conference, making them enthusiastically participate in interactions as well as ask questions to the guests. Through the workshop, CTTC contributed to helping students gain more motivation for their journey of learning Japanese to conquer the Japanese environment. It is expected that in the future the Japanese class at CTTC will start and will potentially be welcomed and participated by a large number of students.

Students actively participate in asking questions to guests and lecturers of the school

The students were excited when they learned that the school would open a Japanese language class for students

Since 2018, Cao Thang Technical College is honored to be selected as one of three schools in Vietnam to pilot the KOSEN - Japan program in which the Mechatronics department of the Mechanical faculty of CTTC is currently training according to this model.

Students took souvenir photos with guests and lecturers of the school

Learning Japanese is a process that requires investing time and choosing an appropriate learning method. Language experts and guests who are Japanese and Vietnamese living and working in Japan spent time sharing the benefits and job opportunities of having Japanese language ability. From there, it helps students determine their goals and methods of learning Japanese to have opportunities to work for businesses in Japan and Japanese enterprises in Vietnam. The workshop helps students answer their concerns and difficulties when starting to learn Japanese. Thereby, providing more motivation in the journey of learning Japanese for engineering students to fulfill their dreams of graduating and working at Japanese enterprises.

Mechanical Faculty