Tsvetan left for Japan when he was only 12 years old, without knowing anything about the language, culture and way of thinking of a whole culture. Today he is a teacher of Japanese language and calligraphy. This is Tsvetan Svilenski, or in Japanese – Tsubetan.
“That’s what they called me in Japan because they don’t have the letter ‘B’, but I’m actually Tsvetan. My life passed like Shinkansen – the arrow train – through Bulgaria, Japan and England, and I am in Bulgaria again. Your average education I graduated in Japan. Over time, I was able to catch up and finish on a par with them. I was lucky and managed to move from the city of Niigata back to Bulgaria, exactly 9 months before the tsunami hit Fukushima and triggered the radiation.
In fact, Tsvetan is the first winner in the Bulgaria wants you campaign – “Win a video CV”. Recent research shows that applicants applying for a video CV are less than one-third of the total number of all applicants for a position. This stimulates the team of Ivan and Andrey to create an initiative in which all registered people looking for Work in the platform, get a chance to have a professional video CV shot. It is through him that each candidate can stand out from the rest, and the potential employer to learn the most important things about it in a few minutes.
In Bulgaria, Tsvetan faces the common problem of not having his high school diploma recognized. This motivates him to go to England to get his higher education. There he graduated with a degree in Computer Science and Politics with International Relations. However, the life of a foreigner has its disadvantages and Tsvetan finally decides to return to work and live in Bulgaria.
“I’m tired of being a foreigner and now I’m in Bulgaria again – I’m studying a cyber security master’s degree at the Military Academy. In general, I speak Japanese, English and Bulgarian, I know computers well and I speak “straight godfather in the eyes”, but enough with the boring things, let me tell you more about my professional experience, because it is as colorful as Japanese porcelain.
In Japan I worked in three places at the same time: I was the first Bulgarian taxi driver and translator of three Bulgarian prisoners and I worked in a Japanese company called “Bulgarian Rose Japan” Ltd., where we sold Bulgarian wines, brandy, rose water, rose Japanese butter, tea and rose jam, everything was fine until the pandemic came and everything turned upside down.
Here in Bulgaria I have worked in several call centers, as well as in the consular department of the Japanese Embassy in Bulgaria. Until now I worked as a supplier of sushi and electrical engineering. I am looking for a stable job with a decent salary so that I can live peacefully in Bulgaria and support my two daughters. I want to stay and develop here, because I believe that I am a valuable staff for Bulgaria, and the stone weighs in its place.
Today Tsvetan can boast not only many stories from his life in Japan and England, but also a new job in Bulgaria, which he has dreamed of for years.
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