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Ocean Jigsaw Puzzle Piece Series: On Participating in the Boston Career Forum [2018年09月13日(Thu)]

This blog post was originally posted to OPRI’s
blog in Japanese
on December 6th, 2017.

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Today, instead of discussing activities by the Ocean
Policy Research Institute (OPRI-SPF), I would like to
introduce one of the activities conducted by the
Sasakawa Peace Foundation (SPF) as a whole.
Recently, I had the opportunity to take part in an
overseas work trip for the first time, to participate
in the Boston Career Forum (November 17-18,
2017, Boston). The Sasakawa Peace Foundation
participated in this event, known as the world’s
largest Japanese-English bilingual career fair, as
part of its recruitment efforts.

I have the opportunity to meet people from various
backgrounds during my work at OPRI-SPF and find
that I am often asked about SPF’s recruitment
process. Given this opportunity, I would like to
introduce one of SPF’s recruitment methods, which
is to recruit through the Boston Career Forum.

At this event, we conducted interviews with
applicants who had passed the application process,
and at the same time gave brief seminars
introducing SPF’s work and culture. Two of SPF’s
executive directors and the director of OPRI-SPF
conducted the interviews, I presented the
information seminars (along with another program
officer), and a member from general affairs took
care of all other work required at our booth,
including receiving the applicants.

As various types of businesses and organizations
took part in the Forum, it was very interesting to
see how each of them presented themselves
through their booths, many of which were
decorated to reflect their culture and colors.
With a large number of university students
attending the Forum, the exhibition center was
filled with excitement.

We conducted the seminars in SPF’s booth, as
shown in the photo below. Since it wasn’t such a
big booth, we were able to really see the students’
reactions as we gave our presentations. Around
100 people attended our seminars over the two
days. In the seminars, which were for 20 minutes
each, we gave brief overviews of SPF and some of
our research projects, including a study on men
and masculinity, the Blue Economy, and also
provided a summary of our recruitment details.
Even when we were not giving seminars, we still
talked to participants who had visited us at the
booth to ask questions.

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View of the seminar booth
(Photo taken by author)

Since I was interested in how things were going
in the interviews, I went to go take a photo
(see below). The person sitting in the interviewee
chair is our member from general affairs. Since I
wanted to see what the actual interview would look
like, I had our staff recreate the situation.
While the photo seems to show a nice, friendly
moment, in the actual interview, the closeness
with the interviewers may cause some people to
become nervous.

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Recreating the interview process
(Photo taken by author)

While it was only for two days, it was a nice
experience getting to work with members from
other departments. At OPRI-SPF, I have two
colleagues who were accepted through past Boston
Career Forums. Through the Forum, I hope that
this year we will also see new people coming to
work with us.

Rina Uesato
Ocean Policy Planning and Management Department

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