J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Paragon Language Consultancy (Hong Kong)
Entretien
After completing a written test they emailed me, I was asked to attend an interview at their place, which is a cramped and depressing office in an industrial building in Kwun Tong. The boss seemed to be ashamed of it and hid the building name when he gave me the address (having only the street number), and they lied their office is in Kowloon Bay on Jobs DB. As a freelancer, I applied for the job because they said they were looking for part-time workers and freelancers, but they were in fact only looking for full-time candidates.
There were only 5 people in the office: the boss, a manager and three employees. The boss is the rude man mentioned in other reviews on this site. His English was really broken (there were many grammatical mistakes in the job advertisement) and didn’t seem to know much about the profession, but he kept making pathetic complaints about the younger generation. The first interview lasted for about an hour, where most of the time was he persuading me to work full-time for him and warning me not to hold him back in the future.
He told me to come for a “second interview” the next day, which I attended out of curiosity. Very soon I learned that I had to come again just because the manager wasn’t at the office yesterday. The manager is a middle-aged woman with a soft and polite voice. Her room was depressingly small and messy. She knows how to speak nicely but you can tell she is a very closed-mind person with a very conservative value. She persuaded me to work full-time for almost an hour again and asked me a few “situational questions” (See interview questions below).
That night I received a system message from Jobs DB saying the company had closed the job board, and very soon the boss messaged me to “attend the interview”, which they never mentioned, the next day. I thought they might ask me to sign a contract if I showed up, so I politely declined “the interview”. I received another system message the next day saying they were hiring again.
In conclusion, I would not recommend anyone to apply for the job. The people here are outdated. They don’t believe in technology the way people were 20 years ago. Their translation jobs are the first kinds that could be replaced by AI.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
1. A legal document translation trial test sent through email (not difficult but quite time consuming)
If you pass, they will invite you to an interview. There, you will have to:
2. prove you can type Chinese by typing a random print document on the staff's desk
3. do a written test very similar to (1)
4. Interview with the rude boss. Answer whatever random questions that comes to his mind (such as what is the name of this government official on a piece of news he was reading)
5. Interview with the manager. She will ask you a few old-school problem solving questions. The only one I can remember is: a client is looking for an interpreter of a rare language. The client said the interpreter must be very punctual and if not it will cause huge trouble to our company, but turned out this only interpreter you know is always late. Will you still take this job? The answer is: take the job and appoint the interpreter 2 hours earlier the client asked for lol
J'ai postulé en ligne. J'ai passé un entretien chez Paragon Language Consultancy (Hong Kong) en juil. 2022
Entretien
I met 2 people in total and the first is the boss who challenged everything on the resume and made me feel uncomfortable, But when I met the second person who is the manager, she was so kind and made the interview as a usual chat.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
- DSE grades and why don't you retake
- What are you doing after graduation? How is it related to translation?
- a short ST included
J'ai postulé en ligne. Le processus a pris 3 jours. J'ai passé un entretien chez Paragon Language Consultancy
Entretien
A man conduct a phone interview and he was nothing but disrespectful. He was rude throughout the phone call and challenged me for everything.
Also the offered salary was quite low, 12-13k.
Think carefully before you apply.
Questions d'entretien [1]
Question 1
HKDSE results
GPA
Qualifications
Your expected salary