Kaplan Instructor interview questions

Interview process was in 3 stages as described in other reviews. I passed the audition stage even though I ran out of the time for the second question. Very difficult to teach the prompt in 2 minutes. 2nd stage technical interview felt very strange to me, and the interviewer probably picked up on that. It's difficult to teach to someone over webcam. I had to teach 3 questions, incorporating feedback, in an interactive way and answer other questions like the one below. Most had to do with teaching but not all of them. When teaching the prompts I could tell the interviewer wanted me to be just like him but it was difficult to match his energy level and overall "goofyness." If I had to do it again, I would try to be as cheesy and goofy as possibly, throwing in bad jokes left and right, acting overly enthusiastic when the "student" gives the right answer. For the audition and technical interview, think of it as acting and not teaching and you'll get the job. Not my style, so I didn't get to the 3rd stage.

The interview process is very formal and can be a bit time consuming, but as a result it is more organized than other hiring processes I have seen. After applying, the initial "interview" is really a short recording. You answer two or three questions in two minutes or less for each question and also speak on a preassigned topic in two different installments for a total of no more than four minutes. This is done on your own time, at home on your own computer. You will receive plenty of instructions on how to do your recording. This seems to be just a filter to weed out anyone who is irremediably terrible. After someone reviews your tape you will be called by a recruiting agent. After that phone interview you will be emailed two lessons to choose from and you have to prepare one of them for a thirty minute skype interview. Once you have gotten this far the process really speeds up. I finished my phone interview and got an email that day about my availability for a skype interview that same week. In reality you only have to teach about fifteen minutes of your lesson because after that the interviewer has a few standard interview questions to ask, and finally you can ask a few questions before your thirty minutes is up. After all that is finished you have to have a background check (since you'll be working with students) and if you don't have finger prints on file with the DOE you will have go to their offices and do that. This was the only part that was really unpleasant as it was rather like going to the DMV, though not quite so long. Although it felt like a lot, Kaplan seems to have their process perfected and they're a well-oiled machine so the process will go fairly fast.