Hello, everyone.
This is Enta.
On the final day, we’ll be conducting home visits and meeting with parents.
However, before I do that, I received a question about hiring, so I’d like to write about that first.
Q: “How do you conduct interviews? What kinds of questions do you ask?”
"Also, what are you looking for?"
Actually, we haven't conducted any interviews!
"That's it..."—well, it can't really end like that, can it? lol
Since I haven't actually done it, here's my own interpretation.
Their goal is to take the employment exam so they can come to Japan and earn money.
That’s why, during the interview for that exam, they claim they can do things they actually can’t. (They tend to say that.)
So it doesn't really make much sense.
Furthermore, since questions and answers in everyday speech are conveyed through an interpreter, they tend to become ambiguous.
It is quite possible that our intentions have not been conveyed.
This means there is a discrepancy between the subtle nuances intended by Japanese people and how those nuances are perceived by foreigners.
It's a whole different story from interviewing Japanese people.
In my case, I only conduct interviews with candidates I’m undecided about hiring. (I’m leaning toward hiring them.)
This time, it was just the two of us.
One of them is a child who seems to have a certain spark, but may have some physical limitations.
I pointed out that aspect regarding physical stamina.
We then assessed whether he would be able to overcome this challenge during his approximately six-month enrollment at a Japanese language school.
I told them that if they could overcome it, we would hire them, but if they couldn’t, working in Japan would be quite difficult.
We had already decided to hire the other person, but we had some concerns about their patience.
We confirmed and agreed that we would make up for that over the coming period.
The first issue is finding the time to interview three times the number of people we plan to hire.
To be honest, I don't have time to deal with each and every one of them.
Plus, group interviews are even more pointless. They’ll just go through the same answers one after another and that’ll be it, lol.
It's pointless.
So everything depends on the physical fitness test.
Well, when I'm interviewing a candidate, I pay close attention to their words, actions, and eye movements.
Things like, "Are you lying?" or patterns and tendencies in the way you think.
It's easier for interpreters to translate when the questions are straightforward and few in number.
I also use a few statistical tools that allow me to gain insight into human nature.
See you later.
