Вопросы, которые может задать консул
Aiganym ZaurbekovaSample questions at the interview
1. What’s your name?
Answer: My name is ----
2.Where are you from?
Answer: I am from Kazakhstan, Almaty. But my hometown is ---------.
3.What language do you prefer?
Answer: English
4.What is the purpose of your visit the US?
Answer: Well, I have a three main reasons to visit the USA.
The first one is: Visiting Niagara falls, Times Square, Statue of Liberty, Hollywood in (LA).
The second reason is: Improve my English.
The third reason is: Making new friends.
5. Do you speak English? / How well do you know/speak English?
Answer: Yes, I do./ I can not speak very fluently, therefore, I want to visit the USA
6. You are an exchange student, aren’t you?
Answer: Yes, I am an exchange student
7. Why do you want to go to the USA? / What is the purpose of your visit the US?
Answer: Well, I have a three main reasons to visit the USA.
1. Visiting Niagara falls/ Star Avenue
2. Improve my English
3. Making new friends
8. How have you learned about this program? / Where from did you know about the program?
Answer: From my friend, he came back from the USA 2 years ago, and recommended to me take a part in a program.
9. What is the name of your friend? Where did he go to?
Answer: My friend’s name is ----. He was in ---- last year.
10. Why did you decide to participate? / Why do you want to take part in a program (reason)?
Answer: I want to get an international experience that will help me in my future career. In my specialty English universally language of contact and also it will help me to realize my dream-to open the biggest computer company.
11. When do you plan to fly to the USA?
Answer: I am planning to fly on may 27 and come back on September 1.
12. What job are you going to have in the USA? / What will you do in America? / What will be your work?
Answer: So, my work position is a fast food crew member.(I will work in the USA as a fast food crew member. My duties will cleaning ,cooking ,sandwich preparation) And I will responsible for cash register responsibilities, cleaning, cooking, sandwich preparation.
13. How this experience will help you in your future?
Answer: My future profession is a programmer, therefore I think that it will very helpful when I work as a team member.
14. Where are you going to work in the USA?
Answer: I am going to work at McDonalds in (state/city). (I have an offer from McDonalds).
15. Where are you going to stay in the US? / Where will you live (housing)?
Answer: My employer will provide me with the housing.
16. How long are you going to stay in the USA?
Answer: I am going to stay in the USA for 3 month.
17. What will you do if you have problems with your boss at work in the US?
Answer: I'll try to solve it with him, if it doesn't help I'll call to my sponsor, to Inter Exchange.
18. How did you find this job?
Answer: Last year participant helped me to find this job. He worked there last year. (Last year participant who visited the USA last year helped me).
19. Do you have any experience working in the same position?
Answer: No).
20. How much money will you make?
Answer: 9.25$ per hour
21. When will you come back to Kazakhstan ? / When will you leave the US?
Answer: I am planning to come back on September 1.
22. What will you do after you come back to Kazakhstan ?
Answer: I will go on of my study.
23. Are you married? Do you have children?
Answer: No/No
24. Do you live with your parents? Why?
Answer: No. Because I study in Almaty, and my parents live in my hometown, in -------.
25. Have you got brother or sisters/siblings? Are they participating in any exchange program?
Answer: I have two sisters and one little brother. No, they aren’t.
26. Have you ever been abroad?
Answer: Yes, I was in ----- about 5 months ago.
27. Do you have friends or relatives abroad?
Answer: No
28. What do your parents think about your participation in the program?
Answer: They are proud of me. They think it will make me more self-confident and mature.
29. Who gives you money for the trip? / Who pays for your trip? / Who pay for your participation?
Answer: My parents.
30. What is your parents (annual) income? How much do you parents earn?
Answer: I don't know exactly, but their salaries are average, and it's enough for our living.
31. Where do your parents work? / What do your parents do?
Answer: My father work as an engineer in building company and my mother work at children's community as a nurse.
32. Do you have a job? / Do you work right now?
Answer: No I don’t work. My studies take all my time.
31. What are your plans for the future?
Answer: After taking bachelor's degree I am going to take master's degree. Then I will work at IT-company as a programmer.
32. What is your future job?
Answer: I will work as a programmer at IT-company.
33. What is your future specialty?/profession?
Answer: I will work as a programmer at IT-company.
34. Where have you learnt English? / How long have you been learning English?
Answer: I have learnt English at university. I am learning English about two years.
35. What do you think the life in the U.S. will be like?
Answer: I don't know because it unpredictable, but I'm thinking it will be unforgettable vacations.
36. Do you have medical problems? / Have you got any medical restrictions?
Answer: No/No.
37. How will you spend your free time?
Answer: I will travel sightseeing in my free time and I will try to spend my time usefully.
38. How many rooms are there in your flat/apartment?
Answer: Five rooms.
39. Can you describe yourself? / How can you characterize yourself? / What are your advantages?
Answer: I would say I am someone who is sociable, kind and believes in integrity. Every day I work to improve myself and my skills, it helps me to be stronger, confident on my own.
40. Who are you going with?
Answer: With friends.
41. Dates of beginning and end of program?
Answer: From the 25th of May till the 1st of September.
42. Will you have an orientation before your leaving?
Answer: Yes, sure, we will have a lecture in a general office of our company before our leaving.
43. Will you have orientation after arrival to the USA?
Answer: Yes, of course, I know that people which took part in a program last year, as they were in New-York they had an orientation at the day of arrival.
44. Have you insurance?
Answer: Yes, sure, our program sponsor made insurance for every participant of a program.
45. How many people are there in your family?
Answer: Me, my father, my mother, two sisters and a little brother.
46. Where do you (family) live?
Answer: I’m living in Almaty, but my parents live in my hometown.
47. Have you ever been to the USA?
Answer: No, it will be my first visit to the USA.
48. What are names of your sponsor companies in Kazakhstan and in the USA?
Answer: Our program sponsor in the USA is Inter Exchange. And the company which helps us to prepare the documents here in Kazakhstan in IEC(International Exchange Center).
49. What about flight?
Answer: I will take it by myself. I am going to take a ticket for 27-28th of may.
50. Could you describe the process of your registration in the program?
Answer: After I decided to take a part in the program, I found in Internet address of the company which can help me to prepare my documents. Then I came to the office, with all documents and took part in the interview. They said me that I’m worthy participant, and now I’m here, so that’s all.
51. What’s name of sponsor - company’s President in the USA/in Kazakhstan ?
Answer: --------------------------------------------
52. Where do you go? What will you do there?
Answer: I am leaving to (state/city). I will work as a crew member.
53. Is this your first visit to America?
Answer: Yes.
54. Why do you want to go to this state?
Answer: Maine is known as the “pine tree state”. Much of Maine is forested, but between the thousands of lakes and rivers, and the extensive Atlantic ocean coastline. It’s a seaside and I think it will be fun. I have never seen an ocean.)
55. Have you ever been charged with anything in Kazakhstan or abroad?
Answer: No
56. What is favorite country? Why?
Answer: My favorite country is Kazakhstan because my family lives here and I proud of being Kazakhstan citizenship.
57. What is your income?
Answer: I don’t have income.
58. How many rooms are there in your flat?
Answer: There five rooms in my flat
59. Can you describe your hometown?
Answer: My hometown is very beautiful, ancient town with lots of trees and old buildings.
60. Have you ever flown by airplane?
Answer: No, I haven’t.
61. Do you use the elevator?
Answer: Yes, I use it always at the university.
62.What is your favorite sport?
Answer: I had engaged in volleyball when I was at school. But nowadays I am not engaged in volleyball. Because study at the university eats my all time.
63. How does your family get a vacation?
Answer:
64. How long have you been living there?
Answer: For 3 years.
65. Do you have a pet?
Answer: No, I haven’t.
66. Do you have a car?
Answer: No, I haven’t.
67. When is your birthday?
Answer: On the 29th of December.
68. Did you have a birthday party last year?
Answer: Yes, I did. I had a wonderful birthday last year when I had turn 19.
69. What presents did you get?
Answer: My parents surprised me with a new model of cell phone Samsung. It was an amazing surprise for me.
70. When did you meet your girlfriend?
Answer: I have not a girlfriend. (Two years ago, she is my schoolmate).
71. What is she thinking about your participation in this program?
Answer: Initially, she was surprised. Then I explained her about benefits taking a part in this program. She has wished me a luck! She is so cute. I love her).
72. Where do you usually celebrate you birthday?
Answer: I celebrate my birthday party each year with my parents.
73. What classes are you taking?
Answer: Computer networks, Android mobile development, C# programming language, Oracle Databases, Graphical Packages and Java programming language.
74. How many classes do you have average per day?
Answer: I have 5 pairs average per day. One pair continues about 1 hour.
75. What kind of books do you like to read?
Answer: I have read books connected with my future profession. Such as "How to learn Java programming easily", "Mistakes of learners in programming" and book about Computer Networks.
76. What book do you read?
Answer: "Html and CSS" by Jon Ducket, "Effective Java" by Josua Bloch, “Hello Android” by Ed Burnette, ”The Art Of Computer Programming” by Donald Knuth, “Thinking in C++”by Bruce Eckel.
77. How many books have you read?
Answer: About 4-5 books.
78. What do you do after classes?
Answer: After classes, I take a rest and walk around the street.
79. What time do classes finish at?
Answer: Often at 2 o'clock
80. Do you have a computer'? What computer?
Answer: Yes, I have a laptop. Model of laptop called as Lenovo.
81. What are your hobbies?
Answer: Twice a week I play volleyball with my groupmates, also I go to our stadium to see games of our football team. And also my hobby is reading books, walking).
82. Do you play any kinds of sport? What sport do you play?
Answer: I often play volleyball with my group mates.
83. Have you ever taken pari in any competitions?
Answer: Yes, I took twice 1st place at volleyball competition. It was in a school period.
84. What is your sign of the zodiac?
Answer: My sign of zodiac is Leo.
85. Do you make your own dinner?
Answer: No, I make dinner with my friends who live with me.
86. Do you wish you were younger / older? Why?
Answer: I just enjoy of my current age. Because, I think I have strength, I am tough and also I think this period of age is very wonderful to achieve own put goals.
87. Do you like to write? If you were a writer, what would you write about?
Answer: No don’t like.(Yes, I like to be a writer. If I would be a writer I would write about my hometown’s history).
88. Who was your first teacher at school?
Answer: My first teacher was a woman. She’s name was ----.
89. Could you play any instrument?
Answer: No, I can’t play.
90. What would you first visit in the USA?
Answer:
91. Where is your city located?
Answer: In South Kazakhstan Region(Yu-Kazakhstan Region)
92. What is the main street in your city?
Answer: Tauke han Avenue
93. Are you smoking? (Do you smoke?) Why?
Answer: No, I’m not.(No, I don’t). Because, It is not good for my health.
94. What color is my tie?
Answer: Your tie’s color is white(black).
95. What kind of cell phone do you have?
Answer: Samsung Galaxy Core Prime. By far one of the best phones I've ever used.
96. How long have you been waiting the interview? What did you do all this time?
Answer: I have been waiting an interview about an hours. I have read about my rights.(I was sitting in hall and was reading brochure with my rights).
97.Why did you choose this state/job?
Answer: Because, it’s a seaside and I think it’ll be fun. I never have been at ocean. Because I wanna try to work in a team. It will help me when I work at my future profession. My future profession is a programmer, and it's a teamwork. Therefore, I have chosen this job.
98.What you will you do if you loose your passport?
Answer: I will immediately call interexchange to check if anybody notified them about my passport, cause we have stickers on passports with sponsor's numbers, or call 911 if it's stolen.
99.Why did you get C/D/F on math/etc?
Answer: I haven't such grades.(It was very difficult for me)
100.What kind of seafood do you know?
Answer: Fish, crab, lobster etc.
101.What kind of animals do you know?
Answer: A tiger, an elephant, a moose, a snow leopard, a bear, a giraffe etc.
102.Do you know your rights in the U.S?
Answer: Yes, I Have rights to:
Be treated and paid fairly;
Not be held in a job against your will;
Keep your passport and other identification documents in your possession;
Report abuse without retaliation;
Request help from unions, immigrant and labor rights groups and other groups; and
Seek justice in U.S. courts.
102.Do you have any questions about your rights?
Answer: No).
103.Describe me what does it mean: not be held in a job against you will? What does it mean?
Answer: Nobody can push me to work. I should work by schedule and my employer can’t hold me at work against my will. (Everyone can choose where he work. Nobody can't obligate for us to work against my desire.)
104.What does it mean to be treated and paid fairly?
Answer: I need to make my money every week.
105.Who will request help from groups?
Answer: Unions, immigrant and labor rights groups and other groups.
106. How much will you earn?
Answer: 9.25$ per/hour
107. What do you like to eat?
Answer: I like to eat pizza, chicken, apples and bananas.
108. What was the weather yesterday?
Answer: It was raining(sunny, warm) yesterday.
109. Did you read the brochure? После ответа Yes, сказал: Tell me about it. What information is in there?
Answer: I read about my rights in this brochure. I have the right to:
Be treated and paid fairly;
Not be held in a job against your will;
Keep your passport and other identification documents in your possession;
Report abuse without retaliation;
Request help from unions, immigrant and labor rights groups and other groups; and
Seek justice in U.S. courts.
110. What did you do last summer?
Answer: I had learned Java programming language myself all summer.
111. You have a good jacket, where did you buy it?
Answer: It is present from mom for my birthday).
112. If there is an emergency at your job, what will you do?
Answer: If there is an emergency at my job I will tell to my employer about it and I call to 911.
113. What if you are fired from your job?
Answer: I will address to Inter Exchange and I will find another job.
114.What if you lost your passport?
Answer: I will tell to local police then Kazakhstan's embassy and InterExchange.
115. What if you paid incorrect?
Answer: I will ask my employer to explain it. I have the right to be treated and paid fairly.
116. Did your coordinator suggest you this job?
Answer: Yes she/he did or I took it from a participant who had been in the U.S last summer.
117. What will you do if anyone takes your passport?
Answer: Nobody should take my passport. I have the right to keep my passport and other identification documents in my possession.
118. What kind of problems can you meet?
Answer: Maybe, impolite attitude towards me from my employer and destroying to pay me my salary.
119. How will you get from home to work?
Answer: by cycling.
120. What are the problems you may face in the United States?
Answer: For example, If I lose my passport, I’ll go to closest local police station and file a police report. Then contact Interexchange. If I’m in immediate physical danger, call 911.
121. Who is you favorite philosopher?
Answer: Socrates(“ The only true wisdom is to know that you know nothing”).
122. In which city will you work? Name of Company?
Answer: I will work in (state/city)at McDonald’s as a crew member and my duties is: cleaning, cooking, sandwich preparation, and the opening and closing of the restaurant.
123. What is the minimum wage in your state?
Answer: Minimum wage in Maine is 9.00$.
124. What is the program termination/deportation?
Answer: If you break American law you will be terminated, so you have to leave the country immediately. But if you don't leave the USA you will be deported.
125. How the participation in this program will benefit you?
Answer: I want to learn more about American culture and make friends around the world. I assume that's a great opportunity to try adult life and see how America different from the Hollywood movies.
126. What is the reason that I should give you a visa?
Answer: It will give me chance to have an experience and make my dreams come true.
127. How will you get to employer?
Answer: I will take a bus ticket from New-York to Portsmouth(35-45$).If I can't arrive at my employer during normal business hours, I will book a hostel in Portsmouth for the night. I will call him/her in advance and arrange a meeting.
128. How many days do you have to register with SEVIS after you arrive in the US?
Answer: I must register with SEVIS within ten days after my arrival.
129. What will you do if you lose all the money?
Answer: I will call 911 and then contact Inter Exchange.
130. Why some students stay in America?
Answer: Because they wrongly think that the life in USA is better than here. But, I think every country has own problems and we must to solve it.
Study and university
1. What University do you study at? / Where do you study?
Answer: I study at (university) in Almaty.
2. What faculty (fac) do you study at?
Answer: I’m a student at the Faculty of Information Technologies and Communications.
3. What course do you study at?
Answer: I’m a third year full time student.
4. What subject do you study?
Answer: I study computer networks, android mobile development, c# programming language, graphical packages, oracle database and etc.
5. What are the scheduled dates for your summer vacation?
Answer: My vacation will start from 15th of May till 1st of September. I have time to pass all the exams before the 15th.
6. Maybe pre - term passing examinations?
Answer: No, I have time to pass all the exams before the 15th.
7. What department do you study at?
Answer: I’m a student at the Faculty of Information Technologies and Communications.
8. What is your major?
Answer: Computer and software support.
9. When was grounded your university?
Answer: In 1934.
10. Who is your teacher in accounting? (люб. др. предмет)
Answer: Jomart Japparov.
11. Are you a student? Can you say that you are excellent student?
Answer: Yes, I am an excellent student.
12. Why have you chosen this major/department/faculty?
Answer: I like to create new programs and I wanna create a program that will help for people. And I think my future profession is a very demanded profession in my country.
13. Why have you chosen this university?
Answer: Because my university is the first national technical university and I like it.
14. What year are you in?
Answer: I’m a third year full time student.(I’m a junior student)
15. How many years do you have to go?
Answer: I have one more year.(I have one year left)
16. When are you going to graduate? / When do you expect to receive your degree? / When will you finish your university?
Answer: I am going to graduate on June of 2018. I expect to receive me degree on June of 2018. In 2018.
17. Will you have problems at university if come back late?
Answer: No, because I will come back at the beginning of September.
18. Will you have any problems if you leave early?
Answer: Of course not.
19. What are you going to do after graduation?
Answer: I am going to get masters degree.( I will work in my town as a programmer at “----” company which engage in creating new mobile programs)
20. What’s the name of your rector/dean/vice - dean?
Answer: Rector’s name is Professor Iskander Beisembetov. Dean name is Rinat Iskakov.
21. What’s your favorite subject in university?
Answer: Android mobile development. Because nowadays mobile programs develop very fast. And I think mobile programs will be required in the future very well.
23. What exams did you have last session?
Answer: Theory of database, C++ programming language, Occupational Safety and Health, Development tools, A Technology of Scripts.
24. How did you pass them?
Answer: I've passed them successfully.
25. Do you have to pay for your studies?
Answer: No, I'd won the grant to study.
26. What classes did you miss today? At what time?
Answer: C# programming language, graphical packages and oracle databases.
27. What classes will you have tomorrow?
Answer: Android mobile development, C# programming language, Java programming language.
28. What lessons do you have on Friday?
Answer: C# programming language, Java programming language, Oracle databases..
29. Who is your teacher in Philosophy?
Answer: Kuanyshov Serik.
30. Does your University have a newspaper?
Answer: Yes. It’s called MyPolytech.
31. How many times have you been absent this semester?
Answer: I have never absent at this semester.( 3 times when I was ill. I was a sore throat.)
32. How long have you been studying in this University?
Answer: 3 years because I will graduate this semester the third course.
33. Have you studied anywhere else? Where? How long?
Answer: Yes, I had studied at school in my hometown about 11 years.
34. Will you have problems at university if you come back late?
Answer: No, because I’m going to come back at the beginning of September. My study will start on 1st of September.
35. Does your university know that you are taking part in this program?
Answer: Yes, it does. They don't mind.
My rights:
1) I should be paid according my job offer! not less !
2) Nobody can make me work for someone if I don't want to
3) I don't have to give my documents to someone if I don’t want to
4) I care report abuse without being afraid of actions
5) I can request help from unions
6) I can call to police if my bike is stolen