my interview is on the 3rd of february. do you mind sharing some of the more interesting questions? and yes, the 3 month wait will be tough.
Sure it says to not talk about the details but shit, there is a million blogs/videos that do, and hell its gaf, who would know lol. Here is a run down of the basic questions I was asked, just know it was very organic flowing questions, next question was a natural progression of the next in most cases.
It actually was not that many, once again many flowed into each other, this is kinda the order they asked/what I remembered it:
Why JET?
What level students would you be interested in teaching?
If you got a rural placement how would you handle it/react
had a quick minute to ask questions. Hard to think of any, they kinda understood the brain farts of suddenly having to ask a question after being asked them for 20 minutes. Ended up with a generic "what was the daily life working at a school like, and what was your favorite lesson or thing to teach." Wanted to ask what they themselves thought of the program, but completely forgot, maybe its a rude question so its for the best i don't know. They seemed to move along a quite a nice pace, I wanted to talk about certain points more but they (hopefully) got their answer that they thought is enough and moved on.
Felt like 5 mins, was around 25.
In general it seemed like they were trying to:
A) make sure you are not a fucking psychopath,
B) are down for the potential hiccups that come with moving to a new country (IE Not wasting their money flying your gaijin ass out)
C) Seem level headed enough to do not only the job and be surrounded by people who don't speak your language,
D) also are not a liar with your application.
The bigger questions are the ones trying to see how you react and how you recover/how quickly you can. They seem to all be anything that can be misconstrued as a negative on your app/SoP/said there in the interview. No trivia for me, no whats big in Japanese news, name the islands, ect. Once again I think people who get these questions walked themselves into it, just trap questions to put you on the spot. Could have answered them though I'm sure. They seemed to avoid things I clearly would know about just from responses on my application or SoP.
Felt like 5 mins, was around 25.
In general they all seemed super nice. Was like talking to two professors and a meet this person a similar age as you thing.