Today is Thursday April 10th and is the opening day of the newest NOVA branch in Shibuya in Tokyo... This thing on the left appears to be it... For those outside of and unfamiliar with Tokyo, Shibuya is an extremely busy area filled with young men and women, shopping in the afternoon, dinner in the evening and clubbing on a weekend... It had 3 NOVAs before the bankruptcy, from memory. It is now opening a new branch, and if the Ikebukuro model is anything to go by, it will open with 2 English instructors and a possible other language instructor, although as far as I know all of them have been fired... They might get one via the "work for peanuts and pay for your own travel" job advertising scheme they have cooked up...Further branch openings in the near future, 4/13 Chiba Matsudo, 4/15 Fujisawa, 4/16 Nagoya Nonami, 5/10 Nagoya Irinaka. There are also rumblings of openings in Ginza, Shinjuku was on the cards but after trouble getting the building, this was shelved... It will be interesting to see where all the instructors are going to come from as there are very few left on standby, by next week or the week after, none in our area will remain... That hiring campaign must have been extremely successful...
Is anyone out there in one of the new branches??? I am particularly interested in Shibuya... Let us know how it is all going there...
2 comments:
Just a quick one. Branch openings makes it sound like expansion but this isn't the case. They are more alternative locations to cover the schools that are closing. Relocation? Refresh? Closure? Hmm which sounds better.
New students having become aware that the branch they enrolled at is closing are opting to pass on lessons. Imagine your first lesson and the school is closing! A great way to encourage clientele.
Anon, thanks for the comment... I know for a fact that Shibuya had not opened at all yet. So it is a new opening... My branch is one of the refreshed branches but it is not on the list... So I assumed that they were all new openings that hadn't been opened since GComm took over...
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