最成功与最失败的英语面试大PK
Q1:你在现任公司的情况。(Can you tell us a little bit about your current position?)
失败者:I’m part of the European Sales team at our company. We’re the world’s leading supplier of IT hardware. (在公司我是负责欧洲销售这部分,我们公司在IT硬件这一行业里一直是领军人物)
成功者:I’m assistant sales director for a chain of language schools. Althrough this post is quite a change then,but I think the skills are the same, despite the product. (我是一家语言连锁学校的销售主管助理,尽管这与我所应聘的职位有所出入,但我觉得不管是什么行业,技巧都是相同的) 总结:这个问题面试官旨在考察应聘者个人工作经验,过分夸大原公司的实力容易给面试官留下傲慢的印象,相反个人工作经验不足则需表现出应有的自信。
Q2:为什么要离开你现在的公司?(Why do you want to move on?)
失败者:Well, they’re too small for me,I’m looking for something much bigger,I see this company as kind of like a stepping stone。I start here gain the necessary experience, then move onto something bigger. (我的公司对我来说太小了,我想要找一家更大的公司,这个公司对我来说就是一个跳板,当我学到更好的工作经验后,我还会寻找更好的机会)
成功者:Well I’ve come as far as I can in my current position, I feel and I’m 28 now and would love to take on some more responsibility. (在我现在的公司,我的发展潜力已经走到了尽头,我才28岁,我愿意再尝试更多的挑战,承担更多的责任)总结:这个问题的回答至关重要,直接表明你进应聘公司的主观动机,要巧妙应对。既不可流露出对前一家公司过多的不满,也不要夸大之前公司的优势。最好是像这位女孩所说的一样,表明了自己愿意承担更多责任,尝试更多挑战,这是面试官最愿意听的话。
Q3:你是如何处理人际关系的?(how to deal with a particularly difficult manage?)
失败者:A couple of years ago, I was working with a guy, he wasn’t pulling his weight, basically being lazy – so I told him to get out. (几年前我和一个同事一起工作,他不知道自己几斤几两,工作还很散漫,我就把他开除了)
成功者:I had two people working for me who didn’t get along at all – they had no shared values, different temperaments – and they used to argue a lot, it looked like it was impossible for them to work together. So, I sat down with them, and we talked about their differences and their problems and after that, things went much more smoothly! (我曾经有两位同事相处的不太愉快,他们之间总是有冲突,然后我和他们坐下来聊天,告诉他们彼此的不同和问题,从那以后他们之间相处的就比较融洽了)
总结:人际关系的处理是应聘者进入职场很重要的素质之一,良好的方法和技巧对工作的进展有着很重要的推动作用,谁也不想找太狂妄自大,不懂得合作的员工。因此这是面试的重要标准之一,一定要表达自己能够很好的处理人际关系。
Q4以具体事件的处理来说明你的工作能力(Can you tell us about a time you had to close a particularly challenging deal.)
失败者:I haven’t had one. They’re all easy for me. I close deals all the time! (我目前还没碰到一个,对于我来说这些都太容易了,我一直都可以处理任何事情)
成功者:Well, the biggest contract I won - and the thing I’m most proud of professionally - was with a large university in India, to provide language training . The contract was full of technicalities and the client was very picky! – but I still pulled it off.、(那就说一下我签的最成功的一个合同吧,那是我最自豪的一件事。印度一家很大的学院,提供语言培训,合同的很多条款都非常苛刻,但是我成功的解决了它)
总结:这是对个人能力的考查,具体的成功例子是对这个问题的最好回答,不可模棱两可,过分自信,容易让面试官对你留下傲慢,不可靠的印象。