{"id":17008,"date":"2011-02-21T22:21:06","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T02:21:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=17008"},"modified":"2011-02-22T09:52:48","modified_gmt":"2011-02-22T13:52:48","slug":"the-best-prefectures-by-jet-alum-linkedin-groups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2011\/02\/21\/the-best-prefectures-by-jet-alum-linkedin-groups\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best Prefectures: By JET Alum LinkedIn Groups"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple weeks ago JetWit requested<\/a> that JETs and JET alums join their respective JET Alum LinkedIn Groups<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0 The goal has been to start laying the groundwork for prefecture governments to see a higher “return on JET-vestment” and over time provide a greater incentive for prefectures to hire JETs rather than NETs or dispatch company ALTs.<\/p>\n

How is it going so far?\u00a0 And which prefecture’s JETs have come out the strongest?\u00a0 Here are….<\/p>\n

The Top 5 JET LinkedIn Prefecture Groups<\/strong><\/span>
\n<\/em><\/h3>\n

(by number of members as of 2\/21\/11)<\/em><\/p>\n

1.\u00a0 Shimane<\/a> – 44 members
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2.\u00a0 Ishikawa<\/a> – 27 members
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3.\u00a0 Hokkaido<\/a> & Niigata<\/a> – 16 members
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5.\u00a0 Nara<\/a>, Saitama<\/a> & Fukuoka<\/a> – 15 members
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Note<\/span>:\u00a0 In addition to signing up for your prefecture’s group, please help spread the word and encourage others to join as well. <\/em><\/p>\n

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Overall Ranking of JET Alum LinkedIn Groups by Prefecture<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

(by number of members)<\/em><\/p>\n

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    \n
  1. \n

    Aichi JET Alumni<\/a> – 7<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  2. \n

    Akita JET Alumni<\/a> – 3<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  3. \n

    Aomori JET Alumni<\/a> – 6<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  4. \n

    Chiba JET Alumni<\/a> – 14<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  5. \n

    Ehime JET Alumni<\/a> – 6<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  6. \n

    Fukui JET Alumni<\/a> – 11<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  7. \n

    Fukuoka JET Alumni<\/a> – 15<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  8. \n

    Fukushima JET Alumni<\/a> – 14<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  9. \n

    Gifu JET Alumni<\/a> – 4<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  10. \n

    Gunma JET Alumni<\/a> – 6<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  11. \n

    Hiroshima JET Alumni<\/a> – 9<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  12. \n

    Hokkaido JET Alumni<\/a> – 16<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  13. \n

    Hyogo JET Alumni<\/a> – 12<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  14. \n

    Ibaraki JET Alumni<\/a> – 14<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  15. \n

    Ishikawa JET Alumni<\/a> – 27<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  16. \n

    Iwate JET Alumni<\/a> – 6<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  17. \n

    Kagawa JET Alumni<\/a> – 3<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  18. \n

    Kagoshima JET Alumni<\/a> – 5<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  19. \n

    Kanagawa JET Alumni<\/a> – 1<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  20. \n

    Kochi JET Alumni<\/a> – 6<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  21. \n

    Kumamoto JET Alumni<\/a> – 7<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  22. \n

    Kyoto JET Alumni<\/a> – 1<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  23. \n

    Mie JET Alumni<\/a> – 2<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  24. \n

    Miyagi JET Alumni<\/a> – 5<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  25. \n

    Miyazaki JET Alumni<\/a> – 2<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  26. \n

    Nagano JET Alumni<\/a> – 5<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  27. \n

    Nagasaki JET Alumni<\/a> – 6<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  28. \n

    Nara JET Alumni<\/a> – 15<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  29. \n

    Niigata JET Alumni<\/a> – 16<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  30. \n

    Oita JET Alumni<\/a> – 3<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  31. \n

    Okayama JET Alumni<\/a> – 8<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  32. \n

    Okinawa JET Alumni<\/a> – 9<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  33. \n

    Osaka JET Alumni<\/a> – 5<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  34. \n

    Saga JET Alumni<\/a> – 6<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  35. \n

    Saitama JET Alumn<\/a> – 15<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  36. \n

    Shiga JET Alumni<\/a> – 2<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  37. \n

    Shimane JET Alumni<\/a> – 44<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  38. \n

    Shizuoka JET Alumni<\/a> – 8<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  39. \n

    Tochigi JET Alumni<\/a> – 2<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  40. \n

    Tokushima JET Alumni<\/a> – 5<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  41. \n

    Tokyo JET Alumni<\/a> – 2<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  42. \n

    Tottori JET Alumni<\/a> – 3<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  43. \n

    Toyama JET Alumni<\/a> – 7<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  44. \n

    Wakayama JET Alumni<\/a> – 7<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  45. \n

    Yamagata JET Alumni<\/a> – 2<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  46. \n

    Yamaguchi JET Alumni<\/a> – 1<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n
  47. \n

    Yamanashi JET Alumni<\/a> – 1<\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A couple weeks ago JetWit requested that JETs and JET alums join their respective JET Alum LinkedIn Groups.\u00a0 The goal has been to start laying the groundwork for prefecture governments to see a higher “return on JET-vestment” and over time provide a greater incentive for prefectures to hire JETs rather than NETs or dispatch company […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[319,282,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-government","category-jet-roi","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pkZ7m-4qk","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17008"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17028,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17008\/revisions\/17028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}