How do I evaluate my Japanese ability for resume purposes?

[Crispy]

I am at a loss for how to do this. There was such a wide variance of ability among even my classmates in the Japanese major at my school, I can imagine that the fact that I graduated with that major means little to an employer looking to see how close to native level my Japanese is, and to tell the truth, I don't really know either. I know pretty much how many kanji I was tought, but how the hell can I evaluate how many kanji I can actually read and write? It may be more due to the amount of reading I do outside of class, but it might be less due to not remembering everything. I have been only guessing so far. Can anyone give me an idea for some way to evaluate myself, or some service that does this? I have already run across the Japanese Proficiency Test, but it isn't adminstered anywhere near me.

[jingai]

The JLPT is the most standard measure of language proficiency. You can gauge your ability by how well you do on the real test, on a practice test, or by looking at examples like: http://www.kanjisite.com/html/start/jlpt/2/all/ or http://www.manythings.org/japanese/jlpt/main.html

Ed Jacobs has a good reference list here: http://www.geocities.com/easykanji/jlptguide.htm

You can get study guides at any Japanese bookstore (Kanzen Master is popular), and they come with practice tests. I don't think anybody knows how many kanji they can really read or write (unless you don't know any) but by reading works at different difficulty levels, you can estimate.

If you're worried about JET, they test you in the interview.

[tidbits]

[Crispy]

Oh, that kanji list will be very useful. Of the level 2 kanji, it seems that I know about 3/5 of them. Time to make up some flash cards...

As for JET, I applied for that back when I was in school, didn't even get an interview. I think that year was the worst year ever to apply for JET, I heard that they had twice as many applicants and hired half as many people as the previous year.