Oral Interview Guideline

Individual Oral Interview scheduled in Week 10 (Thursday, June 3) will be conducted in the following manner. You should be able to have a short conversation (about 5-10 minutes).

• The first half of the interview will be a free talk.  The general topic is personal communication and you discuss how you communicate with your family or friends outside Athens during academic terms.  Explain what modes of communication (e.g., telephone, e-mail, driving back home, etc.) you use, how often, why, etc. You should be able to answer general questions about this topic as well. Remember you are the one who initiates and decides the direction of the conversation. So, before you come for the interview, you should have clear ideas about what you want to talk about.  If you bring artifacts, e.g. pictures of people and places, they will be very helpfull to make the conversation more interesting and easy to carry on.
• The second half of the interview will be a role-play in a job interview setting.  You will be a job applicant and your instructor an interviewer.  (See the guideline below.)

Each interview is conducted individually and solely in Japanese.

The FRAME OF THE INTERVIEW

1.  Greeting and Small Talk

2.  Free Conversation

Initiate conversation on personal communication.  Introduce the topic, describe it, state your feelings and opinions, ask questions, make suggestions, and so on. (Bring anything that helps you in this activity.).

3.  Role-Play

Pretend that you are in a job interview.

· Go out of the instructor's office and come back as an interviewee.  Knock the door and come in the room.  (Don't forget to bow.)

· After a short introduction, you should sit on the chair as you are invited to do so.

· At the beginning of the interview, the interviewer asks why you applied for this job.  In response to this question, you CLEARLY state why you want to work in the field of XXX (i.e., your choice of occupation such as postal office, bank, movie theater, fast food restaurant, broadcasting station, college, etc.).

· The interviewer's subsequent questions will be adjusted according to your choice of occupation. You should be able to answer questions such as why you have chosen this particular field, what kind of qualifications or training you have, what kind of responsibilities you would like to assume in the organization, where you want to work, etc.

· Of course, you should be able to answer more general questions as well.  These include, for instance, your birth place, family background, educational history, special skills, work experience, as well as those mundane questions like your hobbies and pasttime.

· You should also initiate questions concerning the job, for example, about salary and working hours.

· When the interview is over, thank the interviewer for giving you the interview and find out when you hear the result.

#The Oral Interview is over when you go out of the instructor's office.  (Don't forget to bow.)#

3. Evaluation Criteria (Total Point = 30)

Information (10):

ability to provide a large amount of detailed information

Communication (10):

ability to initiate, sustain, restore, and develop an interactive language use

Language (10):

ability to use complex as well as simple sentence structures with appropriately conjugated verbs and adjectives