The term \u201ccareer advancement\u201d has become well established in Japan. There\u2019s even a government program called the Career Advancement Subsidy (\u30ad\u30e3\u30ea\u30a2\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u52a9\u6210\u91d1).<\/p>\n
(*Note: \u201cCareer up\u201d is actually a Japanese-English term. The correct English expressions are career advancement or career development.)<\/p>\n
In the context of this subsidy, \u201ccareer advancement\u201d refers to promoting part-time or probationary employees to full-time positions, and that\u2019s how the term is often used in Japan.<\/p>\n
Sometimes, being promoted within a company\u2014to section manager or department head\u2014is also called \u201ccareer up,\u201d but in most cases, it\u2019s more naturally referred to simply as a promotion.<\/p>\n
In Japan, these expressions are usually based on the idea of staying with the same company long-term.<\/p>\n
In contrast, in many Western countries where people change jobs every few years, career advancement typically means moving to a new company for a higher position or salary in the same field. For example, someone specializing in accounting might start as a trainee at their first company, become a manager at the next, and then a director at the next one. Each move represents career advancement\u2014with corresponding salary growth and stronger credentials that open doors to even greater opportunities in the future.<\/p>\n
If you watch American TV dramas, you\u2019ll often hear characters say things like \u201cThis could ruin my career\u201d or \u201cHe\u2019s only doing that to build his career.\u201d Behind those lines is a deeply rooted mindset: a strong personal drive to build and elevate one\u2019s own career, independent of any one company or organization.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a mindset quite different from Japan\u2019s, where the idea of a career is often tied to loyalty and long-term commitment to a single company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The term \u201ccareer advancement\u201d has become well established in Japan. There\u2019s even a government program called the Career Advancement Subsidy (\u30ad\u30e3\u30ea\u30a2\u30a2\u30c3\u30d7\u52a9\u6210\u91d1). (*Note: \u201cCareer up\u201d is actually a Japanese-English term. The correct English expressions are career advancement or career development.) In the context of this subsidy, \u201ccareer advancement\u201d refers to promoting part-time or probationary employees to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":590,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[188,189,190],"class_list":["post-589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business-in-japan","tag-career-advancement","tag-japan-vs-west","tag-work-culture"],"yoast_head":"\n