The person who asked the question was a clerk in his thirties or almost forty, who was sitting in the middle. The younger man next to him was probably in charge of taking notes, and he was holding a notebook and staring silently at Nagano Nao.

The one on the other side looks ordinary, but it feels very special.

Nagano Nao silently looked at the others and said calmly, "I am very interested in the financial industry, and I especially hope to contribute to society by working in life insurance."

So fucking hypocritical.

But this is basic interview literacy and political correctness.

When interviewing at a large Japanese company, you must first say that you are contributing to society. This is the experience I gained from my previous communication with Ryouta Iue.

Of course, the other person might curse in his heart – you’re pretending as if it’s real!

"But your major is more inclined towards securities and banking. Even if it is life insurance, there are many options. Why do you have to go to Sumitomo Life Insurance? Please answer honestly, where is your first choice?"

Even a fool knows how to answer such a question: "Sumitomo Life Insurance, of course."

No response.

It was a fairly ordinary answer. The other party might be cursing us as idiots in his heart.

But the three guys in front of him looked old-fashioned and serious, and seemed very unhappy. Nagano Nao especially wanted to tease these three guys.

"However, your company was not my first choice."

A hint of surprise flashed across the eyes of the other three people, and they were obviously interested in Nagano Nao's answer.

"As you may have seen, I was involved in a car accident not long ago, in which my father unfortunately passed away and I almost died as well.

During the subsequent insurance claim process, I realized how important insurance is to everyone. It was the 10,000 yuan in compensation that saved me and my family from the embarrassment of a bad life.”

“Is it Sumitomo Life Insurance?”

"Yes."

"I see. I'm sorry to mention your misfortune."

"It's nothing, it's a thing of the past, and it made me realize the preciousness of life."

After hearing this, the questioner and the recorder who was holding the notebook motionlessly both looked at Nagano Nao carefully, and even the guy who looked ordinary took a few more glances.

Nagano Nao observed that the guy who asked the question glanced at the latter and said, "Thank you. I will inform you of the interview results later."

notify?

That means there is no hope.

As a happy worker, Nagano Nao has encountered too many such situations.

It seems that Keio’s brand is not very effective.

Sumitomo Life is so difficult to get into.

Then RB Life Insurance will be even more difficult to deal with.

Oh shit.

It seems that we have to think of other ways.

If it doesn't work, sell the house and try again.

Thinking of this, Nagano Nao bowed perfunctorily and slipped away. He didn't want to continue pretending to be a craftsman for a company that had no value to him.

Obviously, the person in charge of human resources was very dissatisfied with Nagano Nao's attitude.

When the other newcomers finish their interviews, they will bow 90 degrees and then take three steps back to show respect.

Nagano Nao's behavior of just nodding and turning away seemed to be humiliating them.

"What a rude fellow."

"How can a lazy fellow like this enter our company?"

A single word from the person in charge of human resources determined Naoto Nagano's life or death.

The clerk who was recording the answer was about to write it down when he heard another person say, "Talented people are often arrogant. I think he must be very confident in his abilities."

"But compared to the others, this guy looks so lazy and rude."

"Can the young dragons of Qingying be compared to those mediocre guys?"

Leave Sumitomo Life.

Nagano Nao was thinking about a new plan in his mind.

If I really can't get a job in an insurance company, I'll have no choice but to sell my house or get a loan from a bank.

With the capital, you can go to the Osaka Securities Market to short the Nikkei.

Although the Osaka Exchange Nikkei is small in scale, I think it should be no problem for a retail investor to handle the trading volume.

As for how to convince Kanako Nagano to use the house as collateral or sell it, Nagano Nao had never considered it.

Now, he has found Kanako Nagano's weakness.

That thing will be fine once.

If it doesn’t work once, try it twice.

It's that simple.

However, Nagano Nao had to change his plans again.

As soon as he got home, Kanako Nagano excitedly told him that Sumitomo Life Insurance had just called and arranged a place for the second interview.

This operation left Nagano Nao speechless.

He always thought that going home and waiting for notification meant that you, a loser, had no hope.

The top-floor banquet hall of the Peninsula Hotel in the central district was packed with hundreds of students who came for interviews. Compared with the first interview, this time people could fully feel the true strength of Sumitomo Life.

You know, renting an entire floor of the Peninsula Hotel in the central district is really a luxury.

By now, Nagano Nao has become completely interested in job hunting in the Japanese workplace.

There were so many heads packed together, probably hundreds of them.

People always say that the current job market is a seller's market, but it is obvious that for super large companies like Sumitomo Life, the competition is still quite fierce.

"Nagano-kun! We meet again."

Nagano Nao turned around and saw a well-dressed guy walking towards him.

It was the Sakamaki Ritsuho whom I met before.

This guy was obviously a bit of a chatterbox. Looking at the dense crowds around him, he sighed and said, "I didn't expect there would be more people than I expected. It seems that although Sumitomo Life's travel expenses are high, they are not easy to take!"

"What? Are you coming to this interview just for travel expenses?"

Nagano Nao said with a strange look on his face that although he had heard that large companies would provide travel expenses, it was really funny to waste time on an interview just for travel expenses.

"Nagano-kun feels ashamed?"

"That's not what I meant. I just felt a little weird."

"Oh, come to think of it, I almost forgot that this is Nagano-kun's first interview. So I'll tell you something useful. Although the financial industry is very competitive now, big companies only select a small number of useful talents. So if we can get an internal offer, they will pay a travel fee to retain talents like us."

"How much is one?"

"It should be several hundred thousand."

Hundreds of thousands, is that a lot? This guy has no vision!

But I don’t know why, but I feel a little sad.

I feel especially jealous when I think about how I was sold out to work in a factory by the school when I was in my third year of college, where I was paid only 2,500 yuan a month and was not given a diploma before I had worked for three years.

Oh shit.

What's so great about that.

Do you want to buy a talent like me with just a few hundred thousand? I am destined to be a man of the Raptors, why would I care about such a small amount of travel expenses!

With this thought in mind, Nagano Nao started his second round of interviews. Unexpectedly, there was only one interviewer, who was the guy who looked ordinary in the first interview.

This time, there was a sign in front of the interviewer.

Asaichirō Nakamura.

When he saw this name, Nagano Nao was slightly stunned, as he felt that the name seemed very familiar.

However, Nagano Nao didn't have time to think. The other party asked him to sit down and began to ask questions: "Nagano-kun, we meet again. Can you tell me why you want to join Sumitomo Life?"

Strange question.

Strange person.

Nagano Nao was a little confused, but there was no expression of abnormality on his face.

After explaining it the first time, I waited quietly for the other party to ask again.

It can be seen that Nakamura Asaichiro was not satisfied with this answer, and he directly asked: "Can you give a more pragmatic reason?"

pragmatic.

In short, stop saying such hypocritical things.

Nagano Nao secretly thought that this kind of application was quite interesting: "If there is a more practical reason, it should be the salary and benefits."

The other party nodded and continued to ask: "Since your intention is to work in the asset management department, can you tell me what you know about this aspect?"

"As far as I know, Sumitomo Life Asset Management has two investment directions: one is insurance funds, which are mostly used for money market investments with lower risks, and the other is funds from wealth management products, which are mostly used for investments in high-risk securities markets."

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(End of this chapter)