# Job-search English Evidence Card: From Job Description to Unfamiliar Follow-up This card does not decide whether you are suited to overseas work or promise an interview result. It answers a narrower question: **under this role and process, can I deliver my real ability in English?** Copy it into a private note. Job descriptions, recruiting email, take-home tasks, company code, customer information, and interview recordings may contain confidential or personal information. Preserve only the minimum material you have a right to use, and obtain necessary consent before recording. ## 1. Role and Process Role title and public link:\ Application deadline or interview date:\ Work mode: remote / hybrid / on-site\ Primary time zones and collaboration mode:\ Known interview stages:\ Explicit language requirement:\ Recruiting rules still unknown: ## 2. Role Language Map | Role fact | Language task | Current evidence | Risk | Build evidence in two weeks? | | --------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | ---------------- | ------------------- | ---------------------------- | | | recruiter communication / project explanation / technical follow-up / behavioural question / async writing / customer communication | | high / medium / low | | Can complete independently:\ Can complete with preparation:\ Depends on prompts or translation:\ Has no sample:\ One highest-risk gap to repair: ## 3. Complete Baseline Date:\ Preparation time:\ Visible support: none / outline / full script\ Tools: none / dictionary / captions / AI / other\ Recording and text location: | Stage | Time | Acceptance | Independent result | Main error | | -------------------------- | ----------: | --------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ---------- | | Role-relevant introduction | 2 min | Present work, evidence, direction | | | | Project explanation | 5 min | Context, responsibility, trade-off, result, unknown | | | | Unfamiliar follow-up | 3 questions | Understand, answer, or clarify | | | | Asynchronous update | 20 min | Progress, evidence, risk, next step, owner | | | | Interaction repair | 1 case | Repeat/confirm/thinking time/unknown boundary | | | ## 4. Error Map | Segment/question | Type | Effect on the task | What to test next | | ---------------- | ----------------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------ | ----------------- | | | content / retrieval / listening / organisation / interaction / accuracy | | | Largest problem that is not primarily English:\ Language error that repeatedly changes key meaning:\ Repair action worth preserving: ## 5. Real Story Bank Keep six lines rather than a full script: Story name:\ Situation and required task:\ My specific responsibility:\ Key action and trade-off:\ Result, cost, and unknown:\ What I would change now:\ Evidence location: | Story | Questions it can answer | Available after unfamiliar follow-up? | Fact/privacy check | | ----- | ------------------------------------------------------------- | ------------------------------------- | ------------------ | | | problem / failure / conflict / decision / feedback / stopping | yes / no | | ## 6. Listening and Repair Original question I did not understand:\ Sentence used to request repetition or confirmation:\ Meaning after restatement:\ My answer:\ How shared understanding was confirmed: | Repair ability | Baseline 0โ€“2 | Day seven 0โ€“2 | Evidence | | --------------------------------------------- | -----------: | ------------: | -------- | | Request a specific repetition | | | | | Confirm scope | | | | | Ask for thinking time | | | | | Admit an unknown and give a verification step | | | | | Summarise agreement and next action | | | | ## 7. Asynchronous Writing Sample Context:\ Completed:\ Evidence:\ Blocked / risk:\ Decision needed:\ Owner and next update: Ask one reader: What happened:\ What needs a decision:\ Who continues and when:\ Sentence that required guessing: ## 8. AI and Integrity Record Tool and date:\ Role it simulated:\ Independent version submitted first:\ Three problems it raised:\ Feedback accepted/rejected and why:\ Parallel result after closing the tool:\ Stage where AI must be disclosed or is prohibited:\ Confidential/personal information kept out: Do not invent experience, numbers, or ownership. Do not use covert real-time prompting in a live interview without explicit permission. ## 9. Fourteen-Day Comparison | Time point | Condition | Task completion | Understanding/repair | Organisation/retrieval | Async writing | Evidence | | --------------------- | ------------------------------------------- | --------------: | -------------------: | ---------------------: | ------------: | -------- | | Day-one baseline | Unscripted, no AI | | | | | | | Immediate revision | Feedback seen | | | | | | | Day-seven retest | Parallel questions, original answer removed | | | | | | | Day-fourteen transfer | New interviewer/order/role question | | | | | | Score each 0โ€“2: `0=not completed`, `1=partial or prompt-dependent`, `2=completed under the current condition`. Use only for one person's comparable tasks. ## 10. Current Role Gates - [ ] At least three real stories remain available under changed wording. - [ ] Recruiter screen, project explanation, and unfamiliar follow-up can be completed. - [ ] Unclear questions produce clarification rather than guessing. - [ ] Repeated language errors do not change key meaning. - [ ] One usable asynchronous update can be written. - [ ] Confidentiality, recording, and AI boundaries are known. - [ ] Unknowns can be admitted with a verification method. - [ ] Equipment, time zone, and interview environment are checked. Current evidence most supports: apply and continue practising / repair one high-risk gap / defer this role\ Evidence:\ Conclusion I still cannot draw:\ Smallest next task:\ Next review date: ## 11. Post-interview Close Actual questions:\ Evidence of correct understanding:\ Clarification that worked:\ Story that failed to answer the question:\ Structure that transferred:\ Difficulty not caused primarily by English:\ Recruiter feedback in original wording:\ One variable to change:\ Preparation to stop: Related chapters: [Job-search English: Bring Ability into Interviews and Remote Work](https://byoungd.github.io/up/en/threads/part-1/8-job-search-english) | [Speaking Evidence Card](https://byoungd.github.io/up/en/templates/speaking-evidence) | [Writing Evidence Card](https://byoungd.github.io/up/en/templates/writing-evidence) --- Source: [Life Level-up Guide](https://byoungd.github.io/up/en/templates/interview-evidence) ยท Manuscript updated: 2026-09-02. Content: [CC BY-NC 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).