HELP attending an interview?

[magixxx]

I''ll be attending an interview soon, the interviewers are a jap boss and a local manager
any idea how i should greet them first? what are the formalities?
should i give a handshake and bow first or wait for them to initiate, and greet the jap boss in jap
"hajimemashite watashi mo XXXX desu, dozoyoroshiko onegai shimasu"
to give a good impression and then follow by normal english to the local manager and finally saying Watashi wa nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu and Eigo desu ka ?

the main mode of communication is english or i should just totally forget it and speak in english.

[MMM]

Originally Posted by magixxx

I''ll be attending an interview soon, the interviewers are a jap boss and a local manager
any idea how i should greet them first? what are the formalities?
should i give a handshake and bow first or wait for them to initiate, and greet the jap boss in jap
"hajimemashite watashi mo XXXX desu, dozoyoroshiko onegai shimasu"
to give a good impression and then follow by normal english to the local manager and finally saying Watashi wa nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu and Eigo desu ka ?

the main mode of communication is english or i should just totally forget it and speak in english.

You better give more details.

[magixxx]

Hi thanks for the quick reply,
I have been recommended for a job interview based in Tokyo assisting the local manager at the main HQ.
I would like to know the correct steps to take when greeting the japanese boss once he entered the room because i want to impress him and i heard that Japanese likes people who make the effort to converse in jap languages.
or i should just speak in the default business english and don't impress at all in case i screwed up.

[ozkai]

Originally Posted by magixxx

I''ll be attending an interview soon, the interviewers are a jap boss and a local manager
any idea how i should greet them first? what are the formalities?
should i give a handshake and bow first or wait for them to initiate, and greet the jap boss in jap
"hajimemashite watashi mo XXXX desu, dozoyoroshiko onegai shimasu"
to give a good impression and then follow by normal english to the local manager and finally saying Watashi wa nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu and Eigo desu ka ?

the main mode of communication is english or i should just totally forget it and speak in english.

Is the interview for an English teacher?

Isn't a "manager" and "boss" the same?

Probably "hello, nice to meet you" with a hand shake.

Forget the JP formalities as you are not Japanese and I guess they wouldn't expect it from you.

You may make yourself look like a shcmuck if you attempt the local lingo

[Nagoyankee]

Originally Posted by magixxx

I''ll be attending an interview soon, the interviewers are a jap boss and a local manager
any idea how i should greet them first? what are the formalities?
should i give a handshake and bow first or wait for them to initiate, and greet the jap boss in jap
"hajimemashite watashi mo XXXX desu, dozoyoroshiko onegai shimasu"
to give a good impression and then follow by normal english to the local manager and finally saying Watashi wa nihongo ga sukoshi wakarimasu and Eigo desu ka ?

Originally Posted by magixxx

converse in jap languages.
or i should just speak in the default business english and don't impress at all in case i screwed up.

Frankly, I don't think you're ready to live in Japan.

[trunker]

damn ya beat me to it.

[GTJ]

Originally Posted by trunker

damn ya beat me to it.

Crap, me too. Oh well, he did it really well.

[TalnSG]

You might as well write that interview off completely.
Do you have any idea how offensive that term is?!?

Originally Posted by Nagoyankee

Frankly, I don't think you're ready to live in Japan.

Frankly Nagoyankee, I wouldn't be too thrilled to have soemone using that verbiage living here in the U.S. either (though they still do ).

I am rather stunned to see it used on JF, especially more than once!

[noodle]

Originally Posted by TalnSG

I am rather stunned to see it used on JF, especially more than once!

The only reason most people don't use it on JF is cos it says not to use it in the rules . Not everyone looks at it as an ethnic slur! In England, there are many shows or companies that have "Jap" in their name. I've never met a Japanese person that has taken offense to me abreviating with Jap!

[GTJ]

Originally Posted by noodle

The only reason most people don't use it on JF is cos it says not to use it in the rules . Not everyone looks at it as an ethnic slur! In England, there are many shows or companies that have "Jap" in their name. I've never met a Japanese person that has taken offense to me abreviating with Jap!

That's because England didn't have internment camps...