Even though many of our graduates will have progressed in their careers since completing a case study, they are still of interest to students who wish to gain an understanding of the world of work.

Newsgathering, researching news stories, arranging and conducting interviews, writing out transcripts of interviews and statements, attending press conferences, some translation work from Japanese to English, and general admin.

On a typical day I would start with newsgathering, seeing what stories might be of interest, and then move on to compiling facts and figures for the correspondents to look at. The rest of the day would be spent arranging appointments and interviews with necessary people, but really, no two days are the same!

I really enjoy the variety of work, there's any number of stories and topics that we could be covering and it means that I could by anywhere other than the office. I got to spend a day going through documents at the National Archives to aid with research for a story, it was so fascinating.

Sometimes it can get very, very fast-paced, and that can be stressful. And the office is in an old building so things are always falling apart in terms of day-to-day maintenance, that can distract.

I have always been interested in journalism, and did work experience at a local newspaper when I was in secondary school. It's so fast-paced, there's so many interesting stories out there, it's great to have the chance to get those stories to a wider readership whilst also making sure that all the news is factual and trustworthy! Plus it's a Japanese newspaper, so it gives me a chance to directly use what I learned in my degree.

I use a lot of my Japanese language skills in my work. In fact, there was a newspaper module in fourth year that involved summarising Japanese articles in English, and I was given the exact same task to do at my job interview. The people interviewing me were impressed with how quickly how I summarised the article, and it was all thanks to that one module at Sheffield! So it's all been really useful.

Graduated 2018.
September 2018 - present: Assistant Correspondent.

To go further in the media and communications area of work. It would be good to go from assistant correspondent to full correspondent, or to work as a Press Officer for a major company.

Nicholas  BA Japanese Studies (2013)
Cargo Agent  (Transport and logistics)

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