Onboarding in Germany

Hey everyone,

my first two weeks in Frankfurt are now over. I can still say that everyone in my company is really nice. In the first week we were really busy getting information from everyone about our time in Japan, and what to expect there. We will have a basic training where we will learn everything Japanese people think you should know when starting your career (courses about what a consultant does, how logical thinking works, how to take minutes and write emails and much more). Then we will receive SAP training (in my case for the Finance system) and also ABAP programing training. For the time in Tokyo we will stay in a small but seemingly nice small apartment in Ikebukuro (very central in Tokyo). It will take only 20 minutes by subway to get to our office (something 90% of Japanese Salarymen can only dream of, they usually commute for at least one hour).

We also learned about the company, and its objective in Germany and Japan and ist projects all around the globe. I am really excited about working globally.

This week we had more time for self study. I mainly used the time to look up everything I should have learned about accounting by now. And also read about it in Japanese, so I would get used to the Japanese terms and way of working. I also practiced some Excel and learned about project management.

As a last dinner we went to a German restaurant near Frankfurt on Thursday and I had a Schnitzel with Pommes. From Tuesday onward we will only eat Japanese dishes, so a little bit of German food as a goodbye was very nice.