Already my standards are starting to slip.
Today, the company I was hoping would jump at the chance to employ any young upstart in a snappy suit, told me by telephone that they are looking for someone with at least level 2 Japanese (1 being the highest). Right now im about Level 82, just above someone who says oregano instead of arigato and slightly behind someone who can order a bowl of ramen without every customer in the shop looking at them (except the guy taking your order who always seems to be too close to the tv)
I had an interview yesterday with a small company that contracts out Assistant Language Teachers to Government schools. While the work was interesting, the guy who interviewed me's shirt was frayed and he forgot to introduce himself. Though Geoff, as I eventually found out, was a nice enough guy it felt like I was the first person he had interviewed not on monday morning, not just for that position, but ever. Questions like...so what are your thoughts on teaching in Japan? I think gives some indication to the quality of available teaching candidates over here. Its like if an engineering company asked a prosepctive employee "so gravity huh, any thoughts?"
Luckily I was able to ignore the snot coming out of his nose and gave pretty good answers the whole way through. Then he got to the part when he explains the terms of the contract. These consisted of a full Elementary Teachers Load except less pay than I had at GEOS and no pay during the Summer vacation. In a nutshell it was everything I had heard about some ALT companies and was trying to avoid.
Today I was going to apply for five jobs however I realised I t would be best to get a japanese phone number before I sent out any more so I only applied for three after I spent half the day in KDDI drawing circles on brochures with the sales assistant and re estimating my Japanese to about level 314.
But I did it, so if you want to email me and ask me where i am or what i am doing anywhere anytime of day, right that very second, you can send a message to my phone using this address.
grammorris@ezweb.ne.jp
till next time
oyasummi!
I had an interview yesterday with a small company that contracts out Assistant Language Teachers to Government schools. While the work was interesting, the guy who interviewed me's shirt was frayed and he forgot to introduce himself. Though Geoff, as I eventually found out, was a nice enough guy it felt like I was the first person he had interviewed not on monday morning, not just for that position, but ever. Questions like...so what are your thoughts on teaching in Japan? I think gives some indication to the quality of available teaching candidates over here. Its like if an engineering company asked a prosepctive employee "so gravity huh, any thoughts?"
Luckily I was able to ignore the snot coming out of his nose and gave pretty good answers the whole way through. Then he got to the part when he explains the terms of the contract. These consisted of a full Elementary Teachers Load except less pay than I had at GEOS and no pay during the Summer vacation. In a nutshell it was everything I had heard about some ALT companies and was trying to avoid.
Today I was going to apply for five jobs however I realised I t would be best to get a japanese phone number before I sent out any more so I only applied for three after I spent half the day in KDDI drawing circles on brochures with the sales assistant and re estimating my Japanese to about level 314.
But I did it, so if you want to email me and ask me where i am or what i am doing anywhere anytime of day, right that very second, you can send a message to my phone using this address.
grammorris@ezweb.ne.jp
till next time
oyasummi!
posted by Gram at 5:45 AM
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