What's going on in Japan Tech Market: Recent Episodes
A B Siddiky
If you are into Tech in Japan, looking forward to enhancing your career, or a hiring manager planning to hire the best tech talents in Japan, this is the podcast you must tune in to. If you are into Tech in Japan, looking forward to enhancing your career, or a hiring manager planning to hire the best tech talents in Japan, this is the podcast you must tune in to.
Had a chance to learn about the cyber security job market in Japan with none other than Steven Li, Tokyo's most trusted Cyber Security recruiter often known as Cyber Steve.
We touched on topics like,
- Cyber security meetups Steven organize & how is the cyber security community in Tokyo
- Why cyber security has been so in demand after the pandemic
- What motivated Steven to start recruiting in cyber sec
- How long does it take for a software engineer to transition to cyber security
- What areas of cyber security does Steven and his team service in Japan
- Can a foreigner land a cyber security job in Japan
- What do companies not want to see in candidates?
- Biggest mistakes clients make in hiring
- Worst example in retaining cyber security talents
-1 reason "Why does a company need to worry about Information Security"
- Does companies in general needs cybersecurity insurance
- One suggestion to respond in a cyber security emergency
Connect with Steven on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cybersteve/
🚀 Watch the last episode: https://youtu.be/IRsqBkeY_D4
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🚀 Listen to all the episodes: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1993781/episodes
On this episode of "What's going on in Japan Tech Market" podcast, I had a chance to speak with the legendary Japanese international entrepreneur Terrie Llyod who has founded, scaled & sold 18 companies in Japan. Some of his founding companies include Daijob (first internet job search portal in Japan), Japan Travel, etc.
I was privileged to hear Terrie's entrepreneurial journey in Japan which started in the 80s.
Listening how Terrie transitioned from a translation company in the 80s to Hardware competing with IBM later sold to EDS now HP, Network, LAN, and finally, the internet was really phenomenal.
One thing I learned from Terrie that kind of became a building principle in my life is the importance of having 'resilience' to stay relevant, tackle & win different waves of recession, and why immigrants are resilient by necessity.
We also had a fantastic rapid-fire round where Terrie answered if someone has $50K today what they can do with that?
View or listen to the full podcast & let me know your building principle of life.
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Click here for the video: https://youtu.be/IRsqBkeY_D4
View the last episode: https://youtu.be/kNHYyxA2qtc
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If you’re looking for an IT Leadership career whether as a CIO, CTO, Engineering Manager in Japan and abroad or already a manager, this podcast is for you.
Listen from veteran Engineering Manager @ Bon So and CIO of US Navy Japan Peter Guo how they build a successful IT Leadership career in Japan in a foreign land with or without Japanese.
We tried to touch on several topics in IT Leadership with some of those below,
- What qualities do they look for while hiring engineering & non-engineering talents in Japan
- How do they attract & retain talents
- What career paths, and mentorship they provide to their members to succeed
- How do they become a bridge between management & engineer (Budgeting, P&L)
- Interview styles, “can Interview training boot camp for hiring managers help”
- How do they do 1 on 1 catch-up, appraisal of their members
- Examples of servant leadership
We also had a fun rapid-fire round at the end.
Watch this episode,
https://youtu.be/kNHYyxA2qtc
Watch the last episode,
https://youtu.be/LdYjXli3JlY
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Listen to all the episodes: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1993781/episodes
In part 2, I had the pleasure to interview Nondo a UX Designer & Smart City Architect from Tokyo, and my good old friend Lorraine a UX Design Consultant from Toronto.
We touched on topics like,
- Research Method
- Universal Design & Accessibility standard
- Impact of Metaverse, Web 3, AR/VR in the world of user experience
- Using user experience for Smart city architecting
- How to improve Pre-post user behavior
- Should you really believe in boot camps/contents like 'Become a UI/UX designer in 30 days etc'
- Future of UI/UX design career
Special thanks to Nondo & Lori again for helping to understand the difference between, AR, VR, and metaverse quite profoundly and how they are using it to transition the user experience from 2D to a 3-dimensional (3D) world.
And let me know how you guys liked the rapid-fire lightning round at the end of this podcast.
✅ Watch it on YouTube: https://youtu.be/LdYjXli3JlY
✅ Watch last episode,
https://youtu.be/Dnf5L1gFTKc
✅ Watch Part 1,
https://youtu.be/kPZEXAzsdGM
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🚀 Nondo's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nondojacob/
Nondo's Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/ee/podcast/dokodemo-design/id1589006082
🚀 Lorraine's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorraine-chai/
Lorraine's Podcast:
https://open.spotify.com/show/0Vev8hc539AQhsDuykucvE?si=alof63FoRnC-AWCPaWj4Yg&fbclid=IwAR2DPrE8eISMXuEZLV90E099Gj-XdrOEaWikdOej43zb_EnjjPCxbg19Fo4&nd=1
Listen to all the episodes: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1993781/episode You
In this episode, I had a chance to interview William Hitoshi Kurosawa who is a Senior DevOps Engineer at WineDirect, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
We touched on topics like,
(Part 1)
- What is DevOps
- What are the different phases in DevOps
- Is DevOps & Agile methodology somewhat similar
- How do you approach a project that needs to implement DevOps
- What is CI/CD
- Does public cloud, git playing a big role in the emergence of DevOps
(Part 2)
- How important security has been in your DevOps journey
- How do you find and fix security flaws or vulnerabilities?
- When it comes to DevOps and DevSecOps, what’s the difference
- Any DevSecOps tools you would like to recommend
- Would you recommend starting DevSecOps now, or waiting until a company reaches a certain level of maturity
- What is the future of DevOps & DevSecops as a career
- Where do you see yourself in the next 5 years in the DevOps world
Listen to Episode 2 of Season 2,
https://youtu.be/kPZEXAzsdGM
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William's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wkurosawa/
Listen to all the episodes: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1993781/episodes
In this podcast, you will hear from two successful UI/UX designers Mikah & Lorraine from Tokyo & Toronto about,
- Difference between UI/UX
- Some good UI/UX examples (Japanese vending machines, etc..)
- How you adapted to the new normal (technologies to scale remote work)
- How to prioritize & respond to negative feedback
- What inspires you to design
- Tips for future UI/UX designers (career transition to UI/UX)
🇯🇵 Mikah's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikahrazon/
🇨🇦 Lorraine's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorraine-chai/
Their podcast, Designer Sushi: https://open.spotify.com/show/0Vev8hc539AQhsDuykucvE?si=alof63FoRnC-AWCPaWj4Yg&fbclid=IwAR2DPrE8eISMXuEZLV90E099Gj-XdrOEaWikdOej43zb_EnjjPCxbg19Fo4&nd=1
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Season 2 of "What's going on in Japan Tech market" has finally started and in the first episode, I had the pleasure of speaking with James Marsen on 'How to build a successful career in FinTech'.
James is one of the pioneers of FinTech in Japan & Managing Director, APAC of a leading FinTech company that is trading on the NYSE.
Below is a snippet of the conversation we had.
- 0:29: Intro of the guest
- 1:18: What's your business about & how is your day to day look like
- 5:07: How has been your experience leading in Asia for the last 22 years
- 10:10: What brought you to Japan
- 8:25: What would be your advice to someone building their career in Finance or IT in Japan
- 15:15: While hiring, what qualities do you look for in a fresh grad & mid-career
- 19:19: How to apply life's experience to solve problems at work
- 21:42: How do you attract talents to join your team
- 25:14: How do you retain those talents
- 29:03: What is the future of your industry
Let me know what kind of topic you guys would like to hear more & share your thoughts in the comment below.
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Sharing with you all the "Future of Automobile Industry" with Shawn Sehy. Shawn is the GM of a leading automobile company.
We touched on topics like,
- EV vs Autonomous Driving
- What is the future of work in the manufacturing industry
- What qualities does a hiring manager look for in hiring & retaining talents in the post-pandemic era and etc
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We had our guest - Colin Silvester who is the CIO of a famous global company in Japan. As a senior technology leader, Colin drives various digital transformations of their global business so we were curious to know what's the future of Recruitment?
We also discussed various career aspects in Japan for foreigners & Collin's thoughts about the time ahead for people who would like to build their careers in Japan?
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In this podcast, we sat with Bon So who is the Head of Data for a famous global startup in Japan. Bon has started his journey in core banking in Hong Kong so we were curious to know what brought him from Banking to FinTech, from Hong Kong to Tokyo?
We also discussed cultural differences between bigger organizations & high-growth startups?
The future of fintech in Japan and what's Bon's take on cryptocurrency and crypto exchanges and etc.
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In this episode, I had chat with one of my colleagues from Robert Half, Japan Keina Cho who was raised in a multicultural background in Japan, China, the US, and back in Japan.
Keina focuses on software developer permanent roles, the best thing I love about Keina is her unique approach of taking recruitment to a different level being a true trusted advisor and mentor to her candidate/client supporting not only in their career move but also mental well-being, overcoming insecurity and etc.
Enjoy this podcast and let Keina & me know what you think about Japan's tech market.
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Keina's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keina-cho...