[Case study 2]Successfully moved to the Singapore office of a Japanese insurer. Konatsu Watanabe

シンガポールで就職起業した21人(日英表記)

<Profile>Graduate of Keio University. Joined a Japanese insurance company as a management trainee upon graduation and worked in insurance sales to logistics companies. Hired locally by the Singapore branch of a Japanese insurer since late 2019 where she's currently in charge of B2B sales. Clients
include Singapore branch offices of Japanese companies and others. Currently working in a team of 90% local Singaporeans. Really likes her team and working hard everyday

[Case 2]

I find that I've stopped comparing myself to others ever since I've started working at my current company
Successfully moved to the Singapore office of a Japanese insurer
Konatsu Watanabe

Tell us about your career 

After I graduated from university, I started work at a Japanese insurer. It was a management associate-type sales role at an insurance agency. I worked in that role for 3.5 years. Today I'm working in Singapore at a Japanese insurer on a local package. 

What was your first overseas experience?

It was during summer vacation of my second year of high school. There was a short-term 1 month stay in Hawaii. I stayed with different families every week and that really changed my views. Subsequently I did a 8 month exchange program in Canada during university.

My interest in going overseas was piqued by some of my friends in high school. There were many returnees from overseas. I felt that they were positive and open-minded and they weren't obsessively competitive like others. I come from a rather rural area in Tochigi prefecture and it's the type of place where everyone knows everyone and you are always comparing yourself to others. And so I was surprised how these returnees weren't like that and that made me curious about going overseas.