外企面試準備的Tips

Tip 5 介紹自己時的要點

介紹你自己時,最為重要的一點就是你要意識到你談論的是你自己以及你做出的貢獻。

What's really important is that you talk about yourself and your contribution. So let's take something like a team project. Yeah, it's good to introduce it and say "I was a member of a five-man team doing this" but what we really want to know is what difference did you make to that team ? Because it's you that we're interested in, it's your skills that we need to know about, because we're recruiting you, not the team.

商務專家Keith Dugdale的面試準備提點,條理清晰,行文流暢。下面讓我們來看看有哪些好詞好句可以學為己用。

重點詞句解析:

1. First of all......The other side of preparation is......

2. First thing I do is...... And then what I do is...... And then the final thing I do is......

這樣的連線詞能讓文章思路條理清晰

3. stand out:v. 站出來,突出,堅持抵抗,顯眼,引人注目

Eg. I stand out in a group interview. 在集體面試中脫穎而出

4. go one step further : 進一步地 .....

Eg. Let's appreciate and even love those exotic differences, but let's go one step further and also earnestly seek out our likenesses. 讓我們去理解,欣賞,並深深地愛不同於自己的差異吧,但還要更進一步地認真尋找我們的共同性。

5. wander around:到處走動,四處閒逛

Eg. Hey, you can't wander around without ID,Just park your ass in that chair. 嘿,沒有ID卡你哪裡都去不了,乖乖的給我坐在這兒

6. play it back:重放

Eg. It sounds like she's in trouble. I'd better play back the whole thing.

好像她有困難。我最好重頭播放一次

7. draw sth. from ...... : 從......汲取;從......體會

Eg. What moral are we to draw from this story?

我們從這個故事裡體會到什麼教訓?

8. take something like...... : 文中為拿......來說,也可以表示為對待某事

Eg. I would never have dreamed that you'd take something like this so seriously. 我做夢也沒想到你會這樣認真對待一件事。

9. what kind of differences did you make to...... : 你為.....做出了怎么樣的貢獻 /影響

Eg. Simple things can make a big difference: the difference between a product your users tolerate and one that they love. 細微的差別會導致極大的不同,比如用戶是真心喜歡還是在勉強接受你的產品。

Tip 6 如何談及失敗的經歷

面試時可以談及自己失敗的經歷,但要強調自己從中學到的所得,並如何學以致用。

It's ok to admit to failures in interview. The key here is to talk about what you learned from that experience and how you'd do it differently next time. So if you...if you led a project, for example, and actually the project fell to pieces, clearly that's bad news - you don't want that to happen. But if you can say "but the next project I was involved in, I did this and that really made a difference and it just shows I learned", then that's fantastic because actually that's waht an employer is looking for: somebody who can learn from their experiences and next time round, avoid those mistakes and in fact, really capitalise on that learning.

Tip 7 如何更好得講述你的項目實踐

最好用專業商務術語描述自己參加過的項目,強調所取得的項目成果。

You know, if you're thinking about a project you can describe it in lots of different ways. You can talk about "I did this, I did that" but a much better approach is to use business language and to talk about how you set objectives, how you prioritised your time, how you focused on outcomes. You're saying exactly the same thing, but you're using business language and business terminology to express it and as an interviewer. I'm sitting here thinking, "Fantasitc! This is a great candidate - this is the person we want to recruit."