6 ready-to-fill .docx career histories, written in English for the 書類選考 at foreign-affiliated and global employers in Japan. Each one converts the parts a Japanese career history carries — company overview, 担当工程, 派遣元 and 派遣先, 億/万 figures, April-to-March fiscal years — into wording a non-Japanese hiring manager can read. A Japanese 職務経歴書 pasted into a translator arrives with the company nobody has heard of, the title nobody can rank, and the numbers in units nobody converts.
Name in romanised form: Kenji Sato
Location: Minato-ku, Tokyo
Phone and email: +81 90-1234-5678 · [email protected]
Target position line: Applying for: Account Executive, Enterprise Sales (Tokyo)
One column, no tables, no photo. The Japanese 職務経歴書 is often laid out as a table and closed with 以上; this English version uses neither, because an English-reading hiring manager expects plain reverse-chronological paragraphs.
Summary: Corporate sales representative with 7 years selling office equipment and maintenance contracts to manufacturing clients in the Kanto region, currently covering 40 existing accounts and prospecting in Tokyo and Kanagawa.
Positioning line: Consistently assigned the department's renewal-risk accounts, including two clients retained after their parent company opened a competing supplier tender.
Three lines maximum. In Japan the document screening (書類選考) usually happens before anyone speaks to you, so the first paragraph does the work an interview opening would do.
Current employer with company overview: Sanwa Office Solutions Co., Ltd. — Tokyo, Japan · April 2019 to present · Office equipment sales and maintenance services · approximately 480 employees · privately held
Position and scope: Sales Representative, Corporate Sales Division, Second Sales Department (Japanese title: 主任 / Team Leader-equivalent). Territory: Tokyo and Kanagawa. Portfolio: 40 existing accounts plus new-business development.
Results: Fiscal 2025 (April 2025 to March 2026): closed ¥180 million (180,000,000 yen) in contracted revenue against a ¥150 million target, of which ¥52 million came from three new clients.
Named achievement: Renegotiated the maintenance contract of the division's largest client at the point they had opened a competitive tender, keeping the account for a further three years on a revised service-level schedule.
Previous employer: Kitagawa Trading Co., Ltd. — Yokohama, Japan · April 2017 to March 2019 · Industrial parts wholesaler · approximately 120 employees. Inside Sales: handled quotations and order entry for 60 recurring accounts and supported field sales on site visits.
Reverse-chronological, newest first. This is the 逆編年体 format, and it is the right choice when your next job is in the same industry, because the reader wants your most recent territory first.
Sales skills: New-business prospecting by cold call and referral · quotation and pricing approval workflow · contract renewal negotiation · CRM pipeline management and weekly forecast reporting · proposal writing for internal approval (稟議) processes
Certifications: TOEIC Listening & Reading: 780 (taken June 2025) · Standard Class 1 driving licence (普通自動車第一種運転免許), obtained 2015
Languages: Japanese: native · English: business level, used daily for email and quarterly reporting to the regional office
This section is the 活かせる経験・知識・スキル block of a 職務経歴書, written so that it also reads as a normal English skills list. Nothing here should be a skill you cannot demonstrate on request.
University: Bachelor of Commerce, Faculty of Commerce, Meiji University, Tokyo — graduated March 2017
Statement of strengths: I keep accounts by handling the renewal conversation early: I review every contract three months before expiry and bring the client a revised service schedule before procurement starts comparing suppliers.
Opening and sending the file: Open this file in Microsoft Word. In Google Docs use File ▸ Open ▸ Upload. Menu names differ between Word versions and interface languages. Google Docs may shift the fonts and margins slightly, so check the page breaks before sending, and submit as PDF from Word (File ▸ Save As ▸ PDF) unless the posting asks for .docx.
Why the free template you already downloaded is not enough: A generic English resume template has no place to put your company's employee count, your Japanese job title, your April-to-March fiscal year or your yen figures — so those facts get dropped, and the screener is left with a company they have never heard of and a title they cannot rank.
Keep the whole document to two pages. If it runs longer, cut the oldest employer entry rather than shrinking the font.
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6 ready-to-fill .docx career histories, written in English for the 書類選考 at foreign-affiliated and global employers in Japan. Each one converts the parts a Japanese career history carries — c
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