Caregiver job interview: Availability & logistics

🇯🇵 In interviews, [こんにちは。] is fine as a greeting, but people often quickly add [よろしくお願いします。] right after to sound more natural and polite.

💬 [は] here is the topic marker, so [今日は] is said [きょうは] ((kyoo wa)), not with [は] as (ha). You'll hear the same in [私は] and [月曜日は].

💬 [お願いします] is used for asking someone to do something, but also in set phrases like [よろしくお願いします]. You'll see the same ending attached to many nouns: [確認お願いします] or [面接をお願いします].

🇯🇵 This is understandable, but in a real interview [本日はよろしくお願いします。] sounds more natural than directly saying [面接をお願いします。]. The direct version can sound like you're asking them to start the interview right now.

🇯🇵 [こちらこそ。] is what you say back when someone thanks you or says [よろしくお願いします]. It gives a polite "same here" feeling, common at the start of an interview.

💬 [よろしく] often appears with [お願いします] as a fixed expression, and the full phrase means more than the literal words suggest. Use it at the start or end of an interview to mean something like "I appreciate your help / please treat me favorably."

🇯🇵 This is one of the most useful polite set phrases in Japan. In a job interview, saying it at the beginning is expected and helps you sound professional even if your Japanese is simple.