The high number of Japanese language errors in answering job interview questions is one of the factors that cause the failure of technical intern candidates to be accepted to work in Japanese companies. Therefore, the errors in the answers that technical intern candidates prepare for the possible questions that will usually arise in job interviews need to be known in order to be corrected and improved so that they can be better in following job interviews. This study aims to identify and analyze the forms of errors found in the answers to job interview preparation. The data source consists of the answers of fifteen technical intern candidates at LPK Ganesha Karya Abadi to the job interview essay test. All data were collected, identified, and analyzed using the Surface Strategy Taxonomy theory by Dulay (1982) supported by the Japanese language morphology theory by Yoko Hasegawa (2014) and Japanese language syntax by Masayoshi Shibatani (1990) on the forms of errors. The results of the study showed that the grammatical errors found in the answers of technical intern candidates to the job interview essay test were errors of omission, addition, misformation, and misordering. The most common error was the misformation, followed by the omission error, then the addition error, and the least was the misordering error.

Job Interview

Technical Intern Candidates

Grammatical Error