Yeah, I think I landed the English as a Second Language conversationalist position. The interviewer said that I was "Obviously a good conversationalist", she asked me if I could take on more than one client, and she asked me if I could continue working with them into next semester. She also recommended some other places in the school that I might consider volunteering at, and she asked me to look for more potential applicants. Oh, and I have training next week. So I've elevated past the interview stage. I'd have to screw up pretty bad to not get it at this point, I think.
The only place that I think I might not have done so hot in, was when she asked me how I would engage a client who wasn't talking much. I gave the standard of asking about their interests, their subject, their family. But then I said "I would ask them to teach me a little bit of their language, so that, if they were self-conscious about the way they sounded in English, they could hear me struggle with their language and it might make them more comfortable." She said that that "Sounds like a great icebreaker, but don't forget, the focus is for them to learn our language."
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