1. Man or woman, give me a firm handshake. You are not Queen Elisabeth 1, and I am not Sir Walter Raleigh returning from a starchy, tuberous crop-finding mission. I'm not going to kneel down and kiss your hand. Ergo, do not place your dainty little hand in mine like you re putting a cherry on a sundae.
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3. When asked your name, please dont reply "Mr./Ms X". Actually, I am interviewing you. If anyone's getting called by their title, it's me. Plus, Im usually 5-10 years older than you.
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6. Dont assume I know nothing of Korea, the Korean language or Korean culture. If I am sitting in an office interviewing Koreans for a position at a Korean company there is a likelyhood that I have a modicum of local knowledge. So, if I ask you where you live or where you went to university, dont reply "Maybe you dont know it." That is why I asked you. I am trying to have a conservation with you.
Because for some reason I can't leave comments on her post, I'll have to instead link to the most awesomely bad Korean English interview here.
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Actually Brian, this interview is not bad. I've done hundreds of interviews with public school Korean teachers, and students, over the last four years. Everything from Korean teacher placement interviews for who goes overseas for a 6 month intensive English exchange program to English proficiency tests to students in public speaking and debate competitions . . . and so on.
The woman in the interview is actually fairly decent. She can put together sentences, doesn't have problems thinking of answers, and actually responds correctly to the questions. I've had teachers start telling me a response completely unrelated to my question. She also didn't have a lot of problems with her consonants and vowel formation . . .
Imagine sitting through 50 interviews in one day--40 of which are below what native speakers would consider a 'pass'--and after you've done this several times you'll probably reconsider the quality of the woman in the interview . . .
I actually wouldn't wish the 50 interviews in one day experience on anyone--so I hope you don't have to do that . . . lol.
J
the part that kills me about the interview is the mental picture of an entire class standing in a delivery room, watching their teacher give birth, and singing their lungs out for TWO HOURS. . . and that she'd share that incident at a job interview.
Sorry, dude, but if I were a lady teacher, I wouldn't want them anywhere near my delivery room.
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