No Future - Project Coordinator Japan External Trade Organization Employee Review

If hired as a national staff, there will be no promotions and no increases in wage (only small increments every year that is way lower than the CPI, which means you're making less every year). They don't reward great performance so don't expect to get anything in return because you excel at your job. They also do not reprimand bad behavior which is why there is a lot of dead weight within the organization. With these reasons, it's very hard to stay engaged and motivated. All management positions are filled by personnel coming from Japan and national staff will always be their assistant, nothing more. The management positions rotate every 3 years and the succession planning is almost non-existent, which means the national staff left have all of the valuable network/knowledge and have to teach the managers. The workplace culture is very Japanese; hierarchical, resistance to change, and stresses more on the process than the outcome. If you are young, expect your opinions to be washed down the drain.