Hey people! just turned 18 yesterday, and now I want to do some part time jobs but my japanese isn’t very good at all.
I need some help regarding part time job interview questions and how do I answer them?
Do I have to know introduction/greetings and how do I get by the interview questions? my knowledge is very very limited and I still need a bit more studying but im getting bits and pieces I can understand from listening to conversations between my mom and her japanese friends, but really only single words I have remembered.
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Just turned 18 but have been lazy for 18 years. Try googling interview questions.
The best advice something gave me is to always bring a small notepad and a pen with me. Is normal for Japanese people to know this, but not for foreigners.
It makes sense because you will need to remember some things and wrote them down makes the person training you think that you care.
There are some videos on YouTube but honestly they didn’t help me back then. Try to work on your self presentation, have a copy of your cv, a nice smile and tell them the truth ‘My Japanese is not perfect but I’m working on it’
There are a lot of foreigner friendly places like donki at ShinOkubo, they have big flyers in 4 languages and says foreigner friendly.
That’s all, I guess! Keep studying and hope you get some nice work! Good luck!
What kind part-time jobs?
If you just need some job to make quick cash, I recommend AMazon Warehouse.
It pays around 1200 (1500 night) which is way better than those other places paying just 1000yen.
Be gentle, serious, kind, and honest. You’ll need to study Japanese, too. You need to be surrounded by it 24/7 or very good at studying to learn enough to be useful in bits and pieces.
Heh, when I first began studying Japanese on my own, I learned a lot of bad ways to say “You”.
Check Craigslist and make a profile on Gaijin Pot, even if you have no work experience. Summer is picking up and you can probably get a temporary job doing a summer camp experience. You play with kids and make sure they don’t do stupid things. If you can speak English, are genki, friendly, and have a reasonable sense of safety you’ll probably find a job. You’ll also interview in English.
Use this job to find a more useful job for the fall.
What are your plans? Are you going to college? Going to stay here?
Whatever you do- start reading finance stuff now. Save half your paycheck while you are still living with your parents. That new game system or speaker system will seem pretty silly in three years. I highly recommend the book “I Will Teach You to Be Rich.” It is written from a US POV, so not all retirement systems are the same, but the beginning and general points of the book are very applicable. 18 is the perfect age to start saving and, eventually, investing.