Career Coaching Collective: Define Your Career Direction
The Career Coaching Collective is a 3-month program offered quarterly and designed to create a structured, supportive space for JETs to focus on career growth. Each cohort is led by a JET alum professional career coach who understands the uniqueness JET experience and helps translate that experience along with the rest of your career into your next professional step, whether you are early in your career or more established.
Each quarter, a cohort of JETs move through a themed workshop series in a supportive space that promotes reflection, accountability and personalized feedback under the guidance of a professional JET alum career coach. At the end of each workshop series, registrants have the opportunity to meet with one of our partner recruiting companies.
For our second quarterly installment, the theme is Define Your Career Direction, led by JET alum Kristy Ishii (Gunma, 2016–2018).
Careers aren’t linear. In today’s evolving job market, direction requires intention.This three-part series will help you turn a nonlinear path into a strategic next move - grounded in clarity, market awareness, and decisive action.
Dates & Workshop Details
Claim Your Next Move: Saturday, April 4 at 1:00 PM ET
Get clear, don’t chase. Define and declare your next move.
Follow-up touchpoint: Monday, April 13 at 8:00 PM ET
Understand the Game: Saturday, May 2 at 1:00 PM ET
Learn how networking and hiring work, and how to connect in 2026 with the right people.
Follow-up touchpoint: Thursday, May 14 at 8:00 PM ET
Build Your Leverage: Saturday, June 6 at 1:00 PM ET
Define your direction, identify three strategic relationships, and commit to one bold action step.
Follow-up touchpoint: Monday, June 15 at 8:00 PM ET
Member Pricing
USJETAA Member Price: $100 (market value: $600). Registration includes all three workshop sessions, along with the follow-up touchpoints and the option to meet with a recruiter at the end of the workshop series.
The Career Coaching Collective is available only to JETs and alumni with USJETAA membership. Please register for this workshop series after signing into your USJETAA membership account.
Space is very limited. Once registration fills, you will be placed on a waitlist.
About Kristy Ishii (Gunma, 2016-2018)
Kristy Ishii is a fifth generation Japanese American, who has over 8 years of experience working internationally as a community leader, JET ALT, and full cycle executive recruiter in Japan. She is currently a Career Transitions Coach at Kristy Mariko Coaching and a Candidate Engagement Specialist at Pasona N A, Inc.
She is most known for helping clients get in touch with their inner wisdom, joy, self care & wellness, while in a career transition phase. Her coaching method helps clients change patterned belief systems that are holding them back from success, by guiding them through unique mindset re-framing techniques. By gaining clarity, clients can realign with their roots and identities in life, relationships, and career, and lead a fulfilling lifestyle that meets all of their needs.
She received a B.A. from University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA, CA, USA), and is a graduate of Alyssa Nobriga’s Institute of Coaching Mastery (Santa Monica, CA, USA).
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