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uberscheisse · Joined: 15 Nov 2004 Posts: 94

I have been invited to attend an AEON interview in Vancouver in 10 days.

Has anyone ever been on one of these?

I'm not scared of a job interview, but I'm wondering if I should wear a suit or just go shirt/tie business casual. I haven't seen anything about AEON being one of those places that demands full formal attire.

thanks.

kita · Joined: 09 Oct 2007 Posts: 34 Location: Japan

They may have a more casual dress for employees, but you're not working for them yet. Wear the suit.

RingofFire · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 43

Agree with the above. Women are never put off by too many roses. Children are never put off by too much candy. Interviewers are never put off by too much formal wear.

If the AEON interview is anything like when I once interviewed there, you will be introduced to their textbooks and basic framework for teaching English. The group as a whole will then be asked to design a lesson around a lesson from one of their textbooks, and then model lessons that everyone made on their own. Finally some paperwork assessing your qualities as a teacher in Japan.

stillnosheep · Joined: 01 Mar 2004 Posts: 2068 Location: eslcafe

Suit and tie for the interview; and for the initial 'training' week in Japan (though you may leave your suit jacket at the door if pegs and hangers are provided); and for every day of your corporate life in Japan (though you will leave your suit jacket on one of the hangers by the door and not even a visit from the big chief head trainer will make you put it back on again - and btw if you are kid's teaching 'no-tie' becomes a health and safety issue - they wouldn't want a kid to accidently strangle you now, would they? Laughing

kindamagic69 · Joined: 04 Jul 2007 Posts: 5

how difficult is the aeon interview procedure in full? There does not seem to be much information in the forum, I have heard horror stories about the other companies i.e ECC who let down most applicants upon interview. Anyone any information? Thanks

RingofFire · Joined: 22 Jul 2007 Posts: 43

johnsoba · Joined: 25 Jun 2007 Posts: 4

i went through the interview process about 2 months ago in Chicago. If you go without a suit, you aren't getting the job. When you go to Japan you will be wearing a suit everday, so it's essential for the interview. AEON is very proffesional compared to nova, and the interview is quite a bit harder.

They'll ask you to say something you learned about AEON at the beginning, so prepare for that.

Make sure you got a pencil and paper, start writing down stuff they say, and there will be a very short grammar/vocab quiz at the end with some questions on it. I think by the time they get to that quiz they have already decided who they are brining back for day 2 because the quiz is the last thing you do.

You'll have the 5 minute presentation, i'm sure that was explained by them already.

You'll get together and have a group discussion with the other interviewees about how you would teach a certain lesson that they hand to you. The interviewers will just sit and listen to what you say and write stuff down.

That's mostly everything for the first day, the rest of it is just listening to them explaining what nova is about and watching movies.

I didn't make it to the 2nd day, but if it seems there is a suprise 10 minute presentation that they will give you around 10 minutes to prepare for.

I passed the nova interview, but then realized they weren't gonna be around much longer. They told me they will call me back if they can send me but i certainly won't be taking the job no matter what.
I didn't even get to the 2nd day of the aeon interview although i admit i could have done way better. It was basically my first real professional interview ever.

Mahik · Joined: 12 Sep 2007 Posts: 89

Why would Aeon tell you what Nova is all about? Wink

silvercat · Joined: 02 Nov 2007 Posts: 10 Location: Nagoya

Suit, jacket, collared shirt and tie. They expect this of teachers in Japan, so best to keep to this. In my interview they even passed around photos of what attire was acceptable and what was not when working in Japan. The interviewer was also dressed like this.

Good luck Very Happy

jc1977 · Joined: 21 Apr 2006 Posts: 29 Location: Nerima

As has been said before, if you don't look spiffy, you aren't getting a second interview at AEON. You have to dress in business attire when you work at the branch schools in Japan, so they want to make sure you are aware of the expected attire and probably want to check and make sure you're not just packing that brown 70s leisure suit or the old, out-of-date suit you had from Uncle Jim's wedding.

So look sharp, slap on a smile and be yourself.

dreamtolive · Joined: 04 Nov 2007 Posts: 15

Yes dress in a suit, women and men.