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[Jazz1975]

Well, in case some of you didn't read this as it was on another thread, I thought I'd copy and paste this:

Well, I just got axed. And I'm PISSED not because I got axed, but because she made me WAIT when we both knew she didn't want to hire me. Okay, let me be clear here: We were told during the weekend to call in on Tuesday to find out if we got in or not. I knew I didn't get in just by the stuff she was asking me. That, and my gut feeling told me so. I would've APPRECIATED IT if she was honest about that. Before any of you dispute what I say, I was the one who was in that final interview section so I know what I'm talking about. Vent done.

[Glenski]

I hate to tell you this, but that's the way life is everywhere. Get used to it and move on.

On a related note, did you ever stop to consider the fact that the one person you are ranting about may not have had the final say on things, so she might not have been able to tell you right then and there?

[PAULH]

[canuck]

[PAULH]

[Willy_In_Japan]

Jazz,

Consider yourself lucky that you didn't get hired by GEOS.

There are other (better) options. You CAN try again.

If you got to the final day of the GEOS interview, you must be doing something right. They cut dozens of people down on the first morning of the first day at my GEOS interview.

A lot of people slag Interac on here because they have issues about dispatch companies. Fair enough. However, I have worked for GEOS and Interac, and I can tell you that I am MUCH happier as an ALT. Don't discount applying to work as an ALT.

Brush up on your Grammar terms while you are working on other things. Take your experience at the GEOS interview and make it work for you in the next interviews.

Remember, that the decision is also made in Tokyo regarding your hiring.

You have time to do that for the August hiring.

Gambatte ne!

[PAULH]

Send a resume to Graham Page at language House in Takamatsu, where I first worked in japan. Sure its not Tokyo or Osaka, its in Shikoku but you are swiftly running out of options. Graham interviews in Canada as well as Australia and you may need to get your foot in the door somewhere. Takamatsu is small but liveable and its only a couple of hours by car from Kobe. I'm in fact applying for a teaching job in Tokushima starting in October.


Graham Page
c/o Language House
Kawaramachi
Takamatsu-shi
Kagawa-ken
JAPAN

[Willy_In_Japan]

Jazz,

Consider yourself lucky that you didn't get hired by GEOS.

There are other (better) options. You CAN try again.

If you got to the final day of the GEOS interview, you must be doing something right. They cut dozens of people down on the first morning of the first day at my GEOS interview.

A lot of people slag Interac on here because they have issues about dispatch companies. Fair enough. However, I have worked for GEOS and Interac, and I can tell you that I am MUCH happier as an ALT. Don't discount applying to work as an ALT.

Brush up on your Grammar terms while you are working on other things. Take your experience at the GEOS interview and make it work for you in the next interviews.

Remember, that the decision is also made in Tokyo regarding your hiring.

You have time to do that for the August hiring.

Gambatte ne!

[Jazz1975]

[Jazz1975]

[Glenski]

[JimDunlop2]

I am sympathetic -- to a point. Don't dwell on it too much. It's true that the final decision may not have belonged to the interviewer. And even if it had, I know of enough people who've thought that they've blown interviews (by the questions they were asked) and ended up getting the job or the opposite -- they were sure they nailed it but ended up getting short-listed (that's been my own experience many times).

Applying for a job is kinda like figure skating... Skill and talent gets you pretty far, but the difference between a gold medal and fourth place is contingent on the hangover of the Russian judge... Choosing a winner is very subjective.

Echoing the suggestion made earlier in the thread, is it possible for you to consider getting a WHV? I'd seriously consider it. Neither my wife nor I were able to get ANYTHING when we were still in Canada. No, wait... There was one offer, but I rejected it based on the feedback I received on the quality of the contract. (The thread was recently resurrected actually). Both my wife and I came to Japan on WHVs, without jobs, without even a place to stay for the night when we landed in Narita... But two weeks later, through a LOT of pavement-pounding and hard work, we secured jobs (at the same eikaiwa, by the way -- they hired us both).*

*Disclaimer. Results may vary. I neither recommend nor dissuade people from trying what we did. I realize that in many ways we were either very, very lucky, or had God watching over us.

[PAULH]

I have mentioned before but maybe it didnt register. Playing the victim or feeling persecuted by job recruiters becuas ethey dont answer your calls straight away wont win much sympathy. It now sounds like you have this huge chip on your shoulder that you are unemployable and you are taking it out on the recruiters, as though its their fault and they should have hired you. No one owes you a job because you went through three days of training.

I am now gearing up for another job search this year and will probably send out up to 50 or 60 resumes (registered mail, $10 each) before Im done, and jump through hoops including travel all over the country. the CV has to be custom written according to school specifications. The one I sent yesterday even specified the size of photograph in centimeters. One page report in Japanese.


You have to jump through the hoops and you dont hear me beating myself up about how unfair it all seems. Pick yourself up, dust your self off and quit feeling sorry for yourself.

[angrysoba]

[canuck]