APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS
Application guidelines for new graduates for fiscal 2025
Manufacturing Technology
Bio-manufacturing Technology
┗Tsukuba,Takahagi(Ibaraki),Yaizu(Shizuoka),Toyama
Manufacturing Technology
┗Takahagi(Ibaraki)
Bio-manufacturing Technology
┗Toyama
Pharmacovigilance
Manufacturing Technology,
Bio-manufacturing Technology
Students who received or will receive a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in science, or who completed or will complete a 6-year curriculum in science between April 2021 and March 2025
• Students who will graduate from university or receive a faculty’s, master’s, or doctoral degree in March 2024
• Mid-career applicants: Allowed
However, mid-career applicants should be those who have graduated from university since April 2020 and have never worked as a regular employee since graduation.
• Those who can work anywhere in Japan
A salary of ¥317,500 a month for master’s and bachelor’s degrees (6-year course)
A salary of ¥287,500 a month for bachelor’s degrees (4-year course)
Pharmaceutical Technology
Pharmacovigilance
During the period of probation, employees are given a bonus proportionally (50%).
During the period of probation, employees are paid a starting salary.
Regular working hours apply to some employees who belong to manufacturing technology.
In April 2009, Astellas introduced FFDay (Family Friday), reducing the scheduled working hours on Fridays by 1 hour and 45 minutes. For sales positions, we have shortened the daily working hours by 15 minutes and increased the number of annual leave days.
We are working to reduce the number of regular working hours per year and to promote work styles that take into account productivity improvements and work-life balance.
• STEP 2 Paper screening and aptitude test
• STEP 3 First interview
• STEP 4 Final interview
Japan Commercial
Pharmacovigilance
160-2 Akahama, Takahagi-shi, Ibaraki 318-0001, Japan
TEL: +81-293-23-4114
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21 Miyukigaoka, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 305-8585, Japan
TEL: +81-29-852-5111
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5-2-3 Tokodai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 300-2698, Japan
TEL: +81-29-847-8611
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180 Ozumi, Yaizu-shi, Shizuoka 425-0072, Japan
TEL: +81-54-627-5155
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2-178 Kojin-machi, Toyama city, Toyama, 930-0809, Japan
TEL: +81-76-431-3910
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30 Toidesakaemachi, Takaoka-shi, Toyama, 939-1118, Japan
TEL: +81-766-63-1220
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Application guidelines for researchers
(common to new graduate and mid-career hiring) for fiscal 2024
*Applications for fiscal 2024 are now closed.
We will recruit drug discovery research scientists (young and mid-career researchers) on a timely basis.
| Young research scientists | Mid-career research scientists | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Recruiting method | Several times a year, mainly by conducting the Drug discovery Innovator Selection Camp (DISC). | Mainly through mid-career recruitment as needed for open positions. DISC is also allowed. |
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| Main Targets | Postdocs with a few years of experience in research, persons who have a degree corresponding to a doctoral or master’s degree, or those who will obtain such a degree (new graduates), persons who have worked for the private sector. | Research scientists who have plenty of experience with research and specialized expertise, persons who have worked for the private sector. | |
| Start of application period | Applications will be accepted according to the timing of selection. | We look for mid-career recruits as needed. | |
| Details of entry | For details, visit our website. | Please access our Mid-career Recruitment website. | |
| Selection | Method | We will select candidates through various programs and at varying periods of time according to the field of application or research experience. Please refer to the details of guidelines for applicants in each selection. | Basically, the selection process is based on interviews. |
| Period | One or two days | ||
| Two to four days The selection dates may be divided into multiple sessions. |
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| Four to five days | |||
| Young research scientists | ||
|---|---|---|
| Recruiting method | Several times a year, mainly by conducting the Drug discovery Innovator Selection Camp (DISC). | |
| Main Targets | Postdocs with a few years of experience in research, persons who have a degree corresponding to a doctoral or master’s degree, or those who will obtain such a degree (new graduates), persons who have worked for the private sector. | |
| Start of application period | Applications will be accepted according to the timing of selection. | |
| Details of entry | For details, visit our website. | |
| Selection | Method | We will select candidates through various programs and at varying periods of time according to the field of application or research experience. Please refer to the details of guidelines for applicants in each selection. |
| Period | One or two days | |
| Two to four days The selection dates may be divided into multiple sessions. |
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| Four to five days | ||
| Mid-career research scientists | |
|---|---|
| Recruiting method | Mainly through mid-career recruitment as needed for open positions. DISC is also allowed. |
| Main Targets | Research scientists who have plenty of experience with research and specialized expertise, persons who have worked for the private sector. |
| Start of application period | We look for mid-career recruits as needed. |
| Details of entry | Please access our Mid-career Recruitment website. |
| Selection | Basically, the selection process is based on interviews. |
DISC(Drug discovery Innovator Selection Camp)
Drug discovery Innovator Selection Camp (DISC) is a program designed to select researchers who would be a valuable asset to Astellas Pharma’s drug discovery endeavors. DISC Winners will have the opportunity to join Astellas Pharma as a research worker (full-time employee).
Innovation is vital in creating new pharmaceutical products. People who can share diverse values, who can be constantly innovative, who can solve problems using every available resource including expertise, experience, knowledge, information, and human networking… these are the people we need.
We believe that recruitment is not a unilateral process of selection. Rather, it is an encounter of equals who are in the process of choosing each other as partners in work. For us, it is an opportunity to see what you are really like and to listen carefully to your ideas and goals for the future. Through learning about you, we want to discern whether you match our personnel requirements criteria. Meanwhile, for you, it is an opportunity to appreciate the real workings of drug discovery research, and to judge whether it is the most suitable setting for achieving your own future goals. DISC was created to provide the optimal opportunities for both us and you.
We make an all-out effort in our recruitment activities. We hope you will make an all-out effort in making your choice for the future, a choice that you will not live to regret.
For more information
Astellas Pharma Inc.
If you have any questions and need any advice, please contact us.
DISC contact information
TEL: +81-3-3244-3181 (9:30 to 18:00 weekdays)
E-mail address for employment of new graduates: new_graduate@jp.astellas.com