Working for Global Happiness

Leave a Nest's corporate vision is “Advancing Science and Technology for Global Happiness”. And we have mission to cultivate and gather knowledge from around the world, access and leverage that knowledge in an easy-to-understand manner for everyone, and create new knowledge around the world. In other words, Leave a Nest's mission statement is “To become the global company providing most effective Knowledge Manufacturing Process Technology”.

Knowledge is created by human-being. Knowledge comes in when human-being are excited. Finding the challenge of “why?” and being excited about it, is the proof of being interested. That's where hot research starts.

“Turning Everyday Wonder into Scientific Adventure ” We prioritize this concept and hoping to encourage more people in the world to explore such adventure. We call us as Science Bridge Communicators®, who can be media and accelerate growth of people by bridging knowledge in society.

This is the value Leave a Nest creates. Would you like to work with us together in Leave a Nest? We look forward to receive many applicants.

If you are interested in it, please CONTACT us.

Recruitment information for each country office

SINGAPORE

Singapore office recruitment information

We are recruiting for the following positions.

As Frontier development assistant manager, you are required to perform the following duties and undertake the following responsibilities in a professional manner.

　Build up university network in Singapore/ASEAN to expand TECH PLANTER programs
Develop a scheme to expand Leave a Nest strategy development division program suited for Singapore
Other duties may arise from time to time and as may be assigned to the employee

As Education development assistant manager, you are required to perform the following duties and undertake the following responsibilities in a professional manner.

　Build up school network in Singapore to expand education platform
Develop a scheme to expand Leave a Nest education development division program suited for Singapore through development of Science Workshops and Science Castle Platform
Other duties may arise from time to time and as may be assigned to the employee

As Research development assistant manager, you are required to perform the following duties and undertake the following responsibilities in a professional manner.

　Build up university network in Singapore to expand Researcher support programs
Develop a scheme to expand Leave a Nest Research development division program suited for Singapore through development of Hyper Interdisciplinary Conference
Other duties may arise from time to time and as may be assigned to the employee

As Human Resource development assistant manager, you are required to perform the following duties and undertake the following responsibilities in a professional manner.

　Build up university network in Singapore to expand Researcher support programs
Develop a scheme to expand Leave a Nest Human Resource development division program suited for Singapore through development of Career Discovery Forum
Other duties may arise from time to time and as may be assigned to the employee

Submit your application to [email protected]

Leave a Nest Singapore Pte. Ltd.

#06-11, 71 Ayer Rajah Crescent, Singapore 139951

MALAYSIA

Malaysia office recruitment information

Leave a Nest Malaysia Sdn. Bhd. specializes in customizing educational, entrepreneurship, human resource, and research development programs. We are looking for new members with vision and strong passion in Advancing Science and Technology for Global Happiness.

Positions Offered

Assistant Manager for Research Development Division

Job Description:

Candidate must possess a PhD in biology, life sciences, biotechnology, microbiology, or biochemistry.
Ensure lab equipment is well maintained, utilized in proper manner and calibrated periodically.
Provide technical support on production process, raw material analysis, quality troubleshooting, and customer inquiries.
Liaise with lab partners, tenants and suppliers.
Design and develop new lab services.
Form partnerships and strengthen relationships with research community and industry partners.
Collaborate with local and international researchers on grant application for research innovation and product commercialisation.
Good command of spoken and written English.
Highly passionate about science, committed, self-driven and acts with a pioneering spirit.
Research experience and knowledge in using Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) machine will be an added advantage.

Assistant Manager for Education Development Division

Job Description:

Candidate must possess a PhD in Life Sciences or Biotechnology.
Experience in conducting educational programs for primary or secondary school students.
Develop original science workshops and other types of science educational programs for primary and secondary school students and teachers.
Collaborate and coordinate with schools and industry partners on implementation of projects.
Form partnerships and strengthen relationships with STEM education community and industry partners.
Good command of spoken and written English.
Highly passionate about nurturing the young generation’s interest in science, committed, self-driven and acts with a pioneering spirit.
Knowledge in using online teaching and learning platforms will be an added advantage.

Assistant Manager for Human Resource Development Division

Job Description:

Candidate must possess a Master in Business Studies/ Administration/ Management/Human Resource/ Communications/ Social Science or equivalent.
Develop and implement training and development framework and approach.
Conduct advertising promotions and copywriting.
Form partnerships and strengthen relationships with SMEs community and industry partners.
Good command of spoken and written English.
Highly passionate about talent development, committed, self-driven and acts with a pioneering spirit.
Candidates with experience in Learning & Development or Training capacity are encouraged to apply.
HRDF Train The Trainer TTT Certificate will be an added advantage.

Submit your application to [email protected]

Leave a Nest Malaysia Sdn. Bhd.

Found8, KL Sentral 5, East Wing, Level 3,

Jalan Stesen Sentral, Kuala Lumpur Sentral,

50470 Kuala Lumpur.

Visit our website: global.lne.st

PHILIPPINES

Philippines office recruitment information

*Please take note that this is not your usual Project Management role, and the work is mainly ON-SITE at our office (Ortigas Center, Pasig City, Metro Manila)

Leave a Nest is a for-profit social enterprise composed of people with research experience or a research-mindset (“researchers”) with the goal of contributing to society through Science and Technology.

Based in Japan, we have manned-subsidiaries in Singapore, Malaysia, and the Philippines, and satellite offices in the United States and United Kingdom, and the whole group has the vision of Advancing Science and Technology for Global Happiness.

We also call ourselves a Knowledge Manufacturing Company – which means that we contribute to society through the creation of new things and ideas. Hence, almost everything that we do is new and unique – which is why it would be difficult to understand and would involve a lot of development and cleaning up, as we also want to make the things we create to be sustainable.

We manufacture knowledge through what we call Science Bridge Communication (hence the job title), which is a practice that the Leave a Nest Group has originally created that involves bridging different sectors (including academia, industry, government, among others) to create the knowledge for solutions or technologies that can be the answer to some of society's pending issues.

We are currently looking for new Science Bridge Communicators in the PH office who are passionate about changing the country through the advancement of S&T education, talent, research, and businesses.

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Responsibilities

On a functional aspect, the work that we do as a company can be simply described as Project Management, but including ideation and sales.

Members are involved in project ideation, creation of proposals, sales, project implementation, and post-implementation follow-ups.

As a member of the company, you will be tasked to help out in projects currently being run, but you are also given the chance to create your own project according to what your passion is. All the projects that are running at present have been created through the passion of different members.

All members are also tasked to contribute to writing articles in our magazine, Nest Garage, which is published quarterly (March, June, September, December).

As a Science Bridge Communicator, your responsibilities will vary according to the division where you will be assigned:

Education Development Division

aims to support science education and research at the primary until secondary (elementary to junior high school and senior high school) levels
responsibilities include:

liaising with schools and keeping a good relationship with them
coordinating related activities such as science experiment workshops, research grants, science conferences, and research training programs aimed for elementary, junior high school, or senior high school students and their teachers
actively search for partner companies that may be able to support initiatives in this division, especially companies that have corporate social responsibility initiatives in education

Human Development Division

aims to support the careers and skills of young researchers and S&T students at the undergraduate and graduate school level
responsibilities include:

liaising with universities and keeping a good relationship with them
coordinating related activities such as career seminars, career fairs, hard and soft skill training programs
actively search for partner companies that may be able to support initiatives in this division, especially companies that have needs in looking for new employees that will do S&T related work

Research Development Division

aims to support research ideation and implementation at the undergraduate and graduate school level
responsibilities include:

liaising with universities and research institutions, and keeping a good relationship with them
coordinating related activities such as research grants, research conferences, technology sourcing, and research-related consultations
actively search for partner companies that may be able to support initiatives in this division, especially companies that have needs in terms of support for the research that they are doing in-house

Frontier Development Division

aims to support the implementation of technologies in society, either through technology transfer or in the form of venture companies
responsibilities include:

liaising with startups / venture companies and keeping a good relationship with them
coordinating related activities such as venture pitch competitions, grants for startups, business creation for companies, among others
actively search for partner companies that may be able to support initiatives in this division, especially companies that are looking for new business seeds.

Other designations: Local Development Team, which is in charge of overlooking the implementation of projects outside of Metro Manila related to the 4 Divisions indicated above.

Qualifications

Fresh graduates with a degree in a science and technology field are encouraged to apply.

Anyone with the passion to change the Philippines is very much welcome to join us!

Those with a Masters or PhD can consult with us separately regarding joining the company especially regarding the other details stated below.

Others

new hires will start as a trainee for 6 months – and the minimum compensation will be at 18,400 PHP per month

however, everyone will have an interview with management every half year, in which there is a high chance of getting a salary raise of around 2,000~3,000 PHP per month (trainees will also automatically get a raise after their probation period ends at 6 months)
allowances such as for commuting and international travel are added on top of the basic salary, and HMO membership is provided
those with previous work experience can negotiate their starting salary
starting salary can also be higher depending on your presentations in the hiring interviews

a passport is needed, as travels to our other offices abroad are sometimes needed:

new hires are required to go to Japan in June in their 1st year of joining the company as part of a yearly 1-week training program

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Singapore TEAM

Dr. Kihoko Tokue

Managing Director

Tokue Kihoko's Q&A

Q1. What is your area of research expertise? *

Behavioral biology

Q2. Why did you choose this field of study? *

My interest in animal behaviour

Q3. Do you have previous working experience?/Where did you work before joining Leave a Nest? *

University

Q4. How did you come across Leave a Nest? *

Incube magazine in a lab

Q5. What do you think is unique about Leave a Nest? *

People in the office seem happy with what they are doing

Q6. How does it feel like to meet all sorts of people involved in science and technology? *

Not sure what you want to know

Q7. What kind of work do you do at Leave a Nest? *

Knowledge manufacturing to achieve advancing science and technology for global happiness

Q8.What is the most challenging part of your job? *

Be creative and challenging. In addition never be satisfied with current achievements

Q9. What is your passion? *

Be the one to witness world’s first

Q10. What do you hope to achieve with Leave a Nest after 5 years? *

Find next leader in leave a nest Asia

Q11. Please tell us about your hobbies and skills. *

Love to read and go to the beaches

Q12. Please give a message to the people you will be working with at Leave a Nest. *

Do what you like and contribute back to the society with your strength

Mr.Shohei Michael Maekawa

Director

Michael's Q & A

Q1. What is your area of research expertise? *

Evolutionary Anthropology

Q2. Why did you choose this field of study? *

Interested in evolution

Q3. Do you have previous working experience?/Where did you work before joining Leave a Nest? *

Was doing internship in NHK in UK to create nature documentary programme

Q4. How did you come across Leave a Nest? *

Was doing an summer internship in Leave a Nest during University time

Q5. What do you think is unique about Leave a Nest? *

Member with different research background gathers in this company

Q6. How does it feel like to meet all sorts of people involved in science and technology? *

Very interesting to know new fields that i do not know about

Q7. What kind of work do you do at Leave a Nest? *

Management of the company, Startup and academia support across countries

Q8.What is the most challenging part of your job? *

Building up team and company, global communication

Q9. What is your passion? *

To increase the number of Leave a Nestians

Q10. What do you hope to achieve with Leave a Nest after 5 years? *

Global expansion of Leave a Nest

Q11. Please tell us about your hobbies and skills. *

I like to watch movies. I use to play Kendo (Japanese fencing) in University.

Q12. Please give a message to the people you will be working with at Leave a Nest. *

If you would like to try many things or try to work on something that anyone have worked on, Leave a Nest would be a perfect place!

Ms. Maiko Miyashita

Administration Manager

Maiko's Q & A

Q1. What is your area of research expertise? *

My specialty at university was public economics.After that, I worked as a social insurance laborer for more than 10 years.

Q2. Why did you choose this field of study? *

First of all, I became interested in the field of social security when I was in high school, which led me to become a certified social insurance laborer. Later, through my work as a labor and social security attorney, I became interested in the fact that people can work to the fullest of their abilities.

Q3. Do you have previous working experience?/Where did you work before joining Leave a Nest? *

Yes, I do. Previously, I ran my own social security office for six years.

Q4. How did you come across Leave a Nest? *

I was told about Leave a Nest by a person at a recruiting agency. However, I later read Maru-san's book and became interested in Leave a Nest more and more.

Q5. What do you think is unique about Leave a Nest? *

We don't work by being told what to do by our superiors, but by thinking for ourselves. However, since we are working under the same vision, we are cohesive and have a strong arrow power.

Q6. How does it feel like to meet all sorts of people involved in science and technology? *

An exciting time to feel a future you've never seen before.

Q7. What kind of work do you do at Leave a Nest? *

I do all the back office work for the Singapore office. This includes accounting, general affairs, labor relations, branding, and investment management. I also hope to play a role as a bridge between the Japan headquarters and overseas branches.

Q8.What is the most challenging part of your job? *

The hardest thing is to know exactly what the laws are in each country. However, I would like to use my experience with Japanese labor laws and other laws to learn a little about the differences between each country.

Q9. What is your passion? *

Building an organization where people can work to their full potential

Q10. What do you hope to achieve with Leave a Nest after 5 years? *

Building a team for environmental development of overseas subsidiaries

Q11. Please tell us about your hobbies and skills. *

It's about growing herbs and cooking with them. I am interested in the benefits of plants.

Q12. Please give a message to the people you will be working with at Leave a Nest. *

It is an exciting workplace where your growth leads to the growth of the company. Let's work together without forgetting the spirit of challenge, making everything interesting!

Malaysia TEAM

Mr. Abdul Hakim Sahidi

Managing Director

Hakim's Q&A

Q1. What is your area of research expertise? *

Robotics

Q2. Why did you choose this field of study? *

I'm very much interested with advance technologies including Robotics

Q3. Do you have previous working experience?/Where did you work before joining Leave a Nest? *

LVNS is my first job

Q4. How did you come across Leave a Nest? *

From Fatin

Q5. What do you think is unique about Leave a Nest? *

Leave a Nest has unique business model and with group of passionate people to bring goods to the world

Q6. How does it feel like to meet all sorts of people involved in science and technology? *

I feel recharged with their passion and purpose

Q7. What kind of work do you do at Leave a Nest? *

everything

Q8.What is the most challenging part of your job? *

Managing people

Q9. What is your passion? *

Advance Technology that can bring better life

Q10. What do you hope to achieve with Leave a Nest after 5 years? *

Hope to grow the company to be sustainable and known by the society because of our contribution

Q11. Please tell us about your hobbies and skills. *

Exploring new technologies and think about what kind of business can be done with it.

Q12. Please give a message to the people you will be working with at Leave a Nest. *

Leave a Nest is the place where you could grow yourself as an individual and also as a part of passionate group of people that have the common vision of bringing happiness to the world through the advancement of Science and Technology. If you also have the same vision and eager to take initiative to solve issues around you, you are the right member for Leave a Nest. Come and share about your question and passion and we will discuss on how we could support you.

Mr. Nur Ahmad Zaim Hussin

Zaim's Q&A

Q1. What is your area of research expertise? *

Network Topology for Wireless Sensor Network

Q2. Why did you choose this field of study? *

Yes I interested with Telecommunication and electronics topics

Q3. Do you have previous working experience?/Where did you work before joining Leave a Nest? *

yes I working as Radio Frequency Engineer at Elabram System Sdn Bhd for 2 years

Q4. How did you come across Leave a Nest? *

My friend told about Leave a Nest and I become volunteer for TECH PLANTER in Malaysia

Q5. What do you think is unique about Leave a Nest? *

We can create project based on our interest and the vision is to bringing global Happiness to the world

Q6. How does it feel like to meet all sorts of people involved in science and technology? *

Very exciting to meet with passionate people that utilize Science and technology to bring happiness to the world

Q7. What kind of work do you do at Leave a Nest? *

Involve in various project related education, research and Entrepreneur

Q8.What is the most challenging part of your job? *

Convey our message to different kind of audience and partner

Q9. What is your passion? *

Bridge between startup/researcher with farmer to improve Agriculture sector

Q10. What do you hope to achieve with Leave a Nest after 5 years? *

Develop my skill in corporate world and bridging researcher/startup with society

Q11. Please tell us about your hobbies and skills. *

Reading books, Listening and playing music

Q12. Please give a message to the people you will be working with at Leave a Nest. *

Let's join us and bring the happiness around the world

Dr. Mohd Izwan Bin Zainol

Izwan's Q&A

Q1. What is your area of research expertise? *

Molecular Immunology

Q2. Why did you choose this field of study? *

Passionate in disease dynamic and human body response

Q3. Do you have previous working experience?/Where did you work before joining Leave a Nest? *

Postdoctoral at Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya (UM)

Q4. How did you come across Leave a Nest? *

Institutional email (UM)

Q5. What do you think is unique about Leave a Nest? *

access to multidisciplinary research network

Q6. How does it feel like to meet all sorts of people involved in science and technology? *

exciting and inspiring

Q7. What kind of work do you do at Leave a Nest? *

research & corporate liaison/communication, research consultation & development

Q8.What is the most challenging part of your job? *

seeking for suitable partners

Q9. What is your passion? *

research (life science) delivery and progress

Q10. What do you hope to achieve with Leave a Nest after 5 years? *

develop/acquire skills that can helps researchers to commercialise their innovations

Q11. Please tell us about your hobbies and skills. *

Travel & photography

Q12. Please give a message to the people you will be working with at Leave a Nest. *

Grab any opportunity whenever possible, you may never know what joy it's bring. the unforeseen circumstances always surprises you in so many unimaginable ways.

Dr. Arief I. Zamani

Arief's Q&A

Q1. What is your area of research expertise? *

Systems Biology & Biotechnology, specifically on Microbial Metabolomics

Q2. Why did you choose this field of study? *

To understand changes happened in an organism upon perturbed by several factors

Q3. Do you have previous working experience?/Where did you work before joining Leave a Nest? *

Previous working experiences limited in lab. setting doing research and consultation

Q4. How did you come across Leave a Nest? *

During Biousahawan 2018, I was fascinated with the concept to bridge the gap between Industry and Academia. My PhD Supervisors also joined Tech Planter

Q5. What do you think is unique about Leave a Nest? *

The opportunity to create, develop new idea that align with one's passion

Q6. How does it feel like to meet all sorts of people involved in science and technology? *

Like a consortium that work together to achieve a common goal.

Q7. What kind of work do you do at Leave a Nest? *

Involve in developing Research Hub, a platform for young researchers to realise their passion and to test their idea

Q8.What is the most challenging part of your job? *

To approach targeted partners and share our philosophy

Q9. What is your passion? *

To do science, promote science and help young researcher to do science

Q10. What do you hope to achieve with Leave a Nest after 5 years? *

Person in charge of Research Hub for Young Researcher

Q11. Please tell us about your hobbies and skills. *

Mostly go trekking with my family

Q12. Please give a message to the people you will be working with at Leave a Nest. *

It's a pleasure to work with you all. Please guide me and work together to achieve our goal

Philippine TEAM

Dr. Yevgeny Aster T. Dulla

Managing Director

Yev's Q&A

Q1. What is your area of research expertise? *

Chemistry / Pharmaceutical Sciences (Neuro-immuno pharmacology)

Q2. Why did you choose this field of study? *

I wanted to do something related to the health sciences as I originally wanted to become a medical doctor.

Q3. Do you have previous working experience?/Where did you work before joining Leave a Nest? *

Before doing my graduate studies, I worked as an instructor at the University of the Philippines for around 3 years, teaching subjects such as general, inorganic, organic, and analytical chemistry. After graduating from my PhD and before working at Leave a Nest, I used to work at a business consultancy company called Intralink, which was based in London but had branches in Japan, China, and South Korea. The company worked to help companies from Europe and the US expand into East Asia, and I was in charge of helping biotechnology and medical device companies in general.

Q4. How did you come across Leave a Nest? *

When I was a graduate student at Kumamoto University, Maru-san (the group CEO) did a special seminar for students of my program. The company piqued my curiosity because I was especially interested in science communication during that time.

Q5. What do you think is unique about Leave a Nest? *

I like the fact that the company has the divisions divided not by function (where other companies have marketing, business development, corporate strategy, PR, etc) but instead are divided according to the sector of society involved in science and technology where we are trying to solve issues.

Q6. How does it feel like to meet all sorts of people involved in science and technology? *

I am a naturally curious person, so meeting all sorts of people and hearing their technologies and research, as well as their personal stories is the part that I enjoy most about working at Leave a Nest!

Q7. What kind of work do you do at Leave a Nest? *

I am currently assigned at the Frontier Development Division at the Japan HQ, helping researchers and startups bring their technologies to society. I am also the Representative Director for our Philippine subsidiary, helping improve the situation in my home country by accelerating the development of science and technology.

Q8.What is the most challenging part of your job? *

Trying to change the world is not an easy job because you have a lot of work to do! As I am also working both in Japanese and English (and sometimes in my local languages due to my work in the Philippines), conversing in languages that I am not really native in can sometimes easily tire me out too.

Q9. What is your passion? *

I am really passionate about improving the situation in my home country (hence the establishment of Leave a Nest in the Philippines!), and also want to spread the unique way of thinking that Leave a Nest has to people in my country and other parts of the world.

Q10. What do you hope to achieve with Leave a Nest after 5 years? *

I am positively hoping that my endeavor to officially bring Leave a Nest to the Philippines will certainly bring change. One of the reasons that I also wanted to start this is to provide more options for work for scientists in my country, so I hope that the subsidiary itself can group in number in the next few years.

Q11. Please tell us about your hobbies and skills. *

I have always described myself (and people have also told me too) that I am an art-person at heart but trained as a science-person. Given that I went through graduate school and got my PhD, I am sure that I have the skill set the makes a scientist. However, most of my hobbies and skills are inclined way towards the arts: singing, dancing, writing, taking photos and videos and editing them, are just a few of the things that I purely enjoy.

Q12. Please give a message to the people you will be working with at Leave a Nest. *

One characteristic that our company gives a lot of importance to is passion. If you think you are passionate about something that is related to or can be solved by science and technology, come join us!

Mr. Ronrick Sugatan Arayata

Onic's Q&A

Q1. What is your area of research expertise? *

Physical medicine and rehabilitation field

Q2. Why did you choose this field of study? *

In order to improve the quality of treatments for patients

Q3. Do you have previous working experience?/Where did you work before joining Leave a Nest? *

I worked in a stroke care center for 3 years as a physical therapist

Q4. How did you come across Leave a Nest? *

I was able to watch my professor's career seminar video

Q5. What do you think is unique about Leave a Nest? *

I think that the structure of the company where it has different divisions based on the sector it addresses is very unique

Q6. How does it feel like to meet all sorts of people involved in science and technology? *

I find it nice to see the different ideas and perspectives of these various people from different countries since it also makes me think about things differently

Q7. What kind of work do you do at Leave a Nest? *

I am currently helping on various projects of the company and also thinking up of my own projects to expand our influence in the Philippines

Q8.What is the most challenging part of your job? *

I am finding it quite challenging to think up of new projects to do for the company especially since the Philippines subsidiary is quite new

Q9. What is your passion? *

I have a passion to give back to society through various ways such as helping people through patient care or developing science and technology for the betterment of everybody

Q10. What do you hope to achieve with Leave a Nest after 5 years? *

I hope to improve science and technology in a way that it increases inclusivity especially for underserved sectors in society

Q11. Please tell us about your hobbies and skills. *

My hobbies are mainly playing video games and watching anime. I also like to jog and ride the bike

Q12. Please give a message to the people you will be working with at Leave a Nest. *

Let us do our best to improve science and technology for the development of society

Ms. Ronezza Delos Santos

Ezza's Q&A

Q1. What is your area of research expertise? *

Chemical Engineering

Q2. Why did you choose this field of study? *

It's a broad field where I can learn a lot and widen my horizon. Eventually thinking of focusing on either environmental or energy.

Q3. Do you have previous working experience?/Where did you work before joining Leave a Nest? *

Worked at a local water utility company under its Water Quality Section

Q4. How did you come across Leave a Nest? *

Attended a Leave a Nest career seminar I found in Facebook and got inspired

Q5. What do you think is unique about Leave a Nest? *

The way of thinking and working. We're given the chance to grow and develop our own ideas and make them happen.

Q6. How does it feel like to meet all sorts of people involved in science and technology? *

It's inspiring to see everyone working on their own fields with passion. It makes me feel like we're really making a difference, step by step, together.

Q7. What kind of work do you do at Leave a Nest? *

I'm doing a lot of work (e.g. science education projects, startup support) as one of the pioneer members for the Philippine subsidiary.

Q8.What is the most challenging part of your job? *

Everything is challenging at the start, but I think the most challenging is communicating what you really want to say, especially for an introvert like me.

Q9. What is your passion? *

I believe the Philippines has a lot of talent and potential in science and technology, and I want to help in unleashing it.

Q10. What do you hope to achieve with Leave a Nest after 5 years? *

Tapping more potential of the Philippines in science and technology, and making more opportunities to grow the ecosystem and nurture more talents

Q11. Please tell us about your hobbies and skills. *

Watch a lot of Japanese things, and play online games (even when I'm not so good at them)

Q12. Please give a message to the people you will be working with at Leave a Nest. *

Let's burn together with passion for science and technology!

Our Four Pillar Projects

Education

We support children's science education and their research activities and cultivate the ability to realize the future.

＜Main Project＞

SCIENCE CASTLE

SCIENCE CASTLE is an international conference for youth researchers and budding entrepreneurs. It is a platform for Junior and Senior High School “young researchers” to share their research and development projects with a focus on Science, Technology, and Engineering to solve social challenges faced in Asia and/or the world in their mission to advance science and technology for global happiness.

HR

We support the career development of researchers and the development of the ability to implement them in society.

＜Main Project＞

Career Discovery Forum

Career Discovery Forum (CDF) is a unique event that started in Tokyo, Japan in 2016. It was introduced by Leave a Nest Group and started as a seminar where university students, researchers, and companies exchanged thoughts and visions with the aim to create new science research topics and design future careers together. Unlike other career fairs, CDF gave the opportunity for employers to identify potential talents outside normal recruitment channels.

R & D

We will improve the research and development environment and accelerate the promotion of technology transfer.

＜Main Project＞

Hyper Interdisciplinary Conference

In this decade, the number of scientific publications were increased in exponential manner. However, the body of knowledge we human being can grasp did not increase as so. To fill this gap, we create the concept “Hyper Interdisciplinary” in 2002. Since then, we Leave a Nest act as Science Bridge Communicator to connect various specialists; such as scientists, engineers, business person, maestro from factory, medical doctor, farmer, educator and etc. We hypothesize that “Hyper Interdisciplinary” network of specialists is the key to make the body of human knowledge be exponential, too. This is where amazing happens.

Frontier

We connect startups, research institutes, and companies to create new businesses, or Frontier.

＜Main Project＞

Tech Planter

TECH PLANTER is Asia's largest real tech seed acceleration program. As a platform for researchers and startups aiming at the social implementation of science and technology, it plays a role to discover the seeds of science and technology that are being developed every day and make them grow as a business.

Leave a Nest’s 15 Principles

What is "Leave a Nest’s 15 Principles"?

1) Have vision in all that you do.
2) Never be afraid of failure.
3) It is you who can make the best out of your work.
4) Take responsibility. Do not blame others when things go wrong.
5) Think of how you and your team members can grow in any project.
6) Make the best out of what is given to you.
Come up with your own original ideas.
7) Your leadership is important even when you are not the leader.
8) Except you are chit-chatting, you are always giving a presentation.
9) What you see and hear depends on your situation.
Always see through to the essence of matter.
10) Interesting ideas are important.
But what matters more is how many people can the idea attract.
11) Learn the basics of what you are expected to know as a member of society.
12) You are given as many chances as you wish.
But always acknowledge there is something you cannot do.
13) Sending an e-mail may not be enough. Value face-to-face communication.
14) Work on skills and knowledge that may not be directly related to your sphere.
Taking a long but steady road will lead you to where you want to be.
15) Never stop learning and always keep trying to change the world.

Recruitment Flow

In Leave a Nest, it is important for applicants to know Leave a Nest and to see fitting with our culture. We are implementing the following recruitment flow to ensure that both sides are fully satisfied. However, sometimes not all processes are mandatory. We will recommend tailoring the flow to suit each individual in the course of our interviews.

How to proceed the recruitment flow?

1. Knowing about Leave a Nest

First, ask yourself and directly see what Leave a Nest really looks like. We offer various opportunities, including career counseling, events, and internship.

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2. Declaration of your wish to join us

Please use the interview to introduce yourself. We introduce appropriate mentors based on your background and vision.

3. Representative interview

In interviews with Leave a Nest representatives from various countries, you can communicate directly about what you want to know about Leave a Nest and what you want to do.

4. Employee interviews and finding mentors

In order to see matching with Leave a Nest, you can join meetings different employees as mentors until each party understand well.

5. Interview with division managers

Through discussions with mentors, we will also decide divisions which are closer to the future in which you want to realize.

6. Final meeting by representatives

As a final interview, we will again hold an interview with representatives from each country.

7. Final presentation at whole company meeting ( to decide offer )

As a final stage, you will give a presentation in front of all Leave a Nest employees to share your vision and what you want to do.

Internal Education Program

In order to realize our corporate philosophy of “Advancing Science and Technology for Global Happiness,” Leave a Nest employees not only have a thorough knowledge of science and technology, but also need to communicate extensively with a wide range of researches, engineers, companies, local governments, and others. In particular, in order to involve a large number of people in the projects they are involved in and lead to success, they need to be able to communicate the attractiveness and potential of the technologies and sciences they handle to the fullest extent possible.

In light of this, Leave a Nest provides training programs on basic skills and mindset so that all employees can grow into “science bridge leaders” with the skills to communicate science and technology in an easy-to-understand manner.

About Internships

Leave a Nest was founded in 2001 as a student venture by 15 science and engineering students. At the time of establishment, the business was centered on experimental classes that conveyed cutting-edge science. Members met on the weekdays of the laboratory to hold planning meetings.

Against this backdrop, Leave a Nest continues to conduct weekend-type interns every Sunday, and offices in various countries also recruit participants whenever necessary.

As a general rule, the subject envisions graduate school students and postdoc students, but you have a diverse track record, such as students and weekday interns.

If you are interested in it, please CONTACT us.