I’ve considered my options and found that I would be able to save a lot of money by obtaining a job here compared to the U.S. Add to the fact that things aren’t going so well economy-wise gives me even more incentive.
I kinda do wonder why AD hasn’t expanded their operations to other countries in order to obtain more data, but I can speculate on how much cost there might be involved and what not. A lot of potential profit if they can capture the overseas market.
Back to testing.
Wednesday, September 28th 2011. Outside was a cool 65ish, 70ish throughout the day with colder temperatures at night.
One spray of IH(Double Strength) and 1 spray of IS to go(Double Strength) both applied at 2:00pm, with an refresher spray of IS two hours later. All applied at the neck region.
I was really nervous since it was a long time since I had an interview so I was banking on shine to make the employer / interviewer happy with IH so they can feel connected with me. I switched with IO since I believed having a closer connection was more important.
This may be wrong, but I found that Authentic Koreans (or probably Asians in general) have real good skills when it comes to restraining themselves. I don’t think they tend to act naturally, but they try to keep a public side to show and a private side. Sometimes there can be leaks…
2:30pm
Feeling slightly better, less nervous. This one girl who seemed to be older than 25 looked slighty towards my direction and started touching up her hair and basically tried to make her self look good. This is where the problem lies for a lot of Koreans (boys too!) are very self conscience of their image and tend to really pay attention to it (so the result is a lot of women whenever they see a reflection, they tend to preen right then and there.)
I couldn’t tell if it was the mones or if it was an automatic response to preen. The guy I was sitting next to however, at first was looking at the ground. He slowly rotated his head to look in my direction (I was trying to look directly straight) and kept looking towards me a lot. Not sure if he was trying to look at the woman who just took care of herself, but it felt kind of… odd. This gentleman perhaps was staring at me.
4:00pm
The first interview was brief and quick. The interviewer already told me the gist of things through email so conversation lasted about five minutes. The smell of Dunkin’s Doughnuts was very overpowering along with a smell of coffee so I didn’t think pheromones were at play here. Talked to me as if I was a friend with very little formalities besides the initial handshake. I’d have another interview on Friday or Saturday with the director.
7:00pmThe second interview (at a different place of employment) however was kind of strange. A guy picked me up to accompany me to the interview. Started to ask me a lot of questions and commented about my resume and background. I mean this guy was basically regurgitating my resume as conversation topics. He also commented about my character and what he thought of me (an energetic, happy, good teacher) even though I gave him short answers!
7:30pm
The guy who picked me up started to ask me more questions, but this time in front of two other ladies. One of the ladies was the director (Older than 35?) while another lady was supposed to be head teacher? (Older than 29). Interview was not bad all with no errors on my parts and the people seemed impressed with my answers.
The guy did pass on to the director about my character and the director complimented on how I was an energetic, outgoing teacher who cares about the children. On how they came up with this assumption… I don’t know since I never even showed them a demonstration lesson!
I basically got the job, but I have to wait a couple of weeks for the current teacher to quit. I’m not that happy since the pay is kinda bleh, but if nothing else is available…
I did notice a slower decline in iois from the opposite sex in the later evening (9:00pm +).
Basically to sum it up, during the interviews I felt really good. I felt like I was able to establish a connection with my future employers and my answers seemed to be on point. A LOT of uh… honesty per say from both parties.