Getting a part-time job at Sushiro

I came to Japan on a working holiday visa and found a part-time job at Sushiro through the website yolo-japan.com. According to the website, they didn’t require any Japanese language skills and jobs were offered in heaps of venues all over Japan. Since Sushiro is Japan’s biggest conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain, I guess they were just aimlessly mass hiring.
Setting up the interview was very easy. After applying through the yolo-japan website, I received an email with a link to a Sushiro website where I could schedule the interview with some online bot. The whole process was in Japanese, but I just used google translate to get through it.

When I went to the restaurant for the interview, I was first guided to a table by one of the staff to wait there. Then they brought me a small tablet computer to input all my details. First I didn’t notice, but there was a button to change the language settings to English, which made it a lot easier for me. After that was all done, it was finally time for the actual interview with one of the shop managers. Even though they didn’t ask for it, I found it very helpful to bring a Japanese resume to the interview, so they had something to read and look at without me having to explain everything about my work history. Since I was an absolute beginner in Japanese, I could barely understand and answer any of the questions during the interview. For some reason I still received a phone call three days later from the manager, telling me that I got the job and asking me to come in again to sign the contract. Of course this was also in Japanese and I only got the message because my Japanese friend was with me when I received the phone call, so Japanese was very necessary.

To sign the contract I had to bring my passport including visa designation, residency card, JP bank card (it needs to be JP bank, they can’t transfer salary anywhere else) and my hanko. It was a pretty long procedure to input my information into the tablet computer again and take pictures of all the document to upload them into the system. When everything was done I received some information on restaurant hygiene, my new uniform, instructions on how and where to buy work shoes, as well as a little vial with an envelope for a stool sample. They asked me to collect the stool sample at home, send it to the lab and call them when it’s done.
About a week later my work shoes had arrived and I got a call from the manager telling me that they got the lab results and that I was ready to come in for my first shift.