dear annie:i'm trying to change careers, hoping to apply my two decades of consumer-product marketing and branding experience to the health care field. i'm at the point where i'd like to set up some one-on-one meetings with networking contacts who are senior managers at health care companies, partly to see where they think my qualifications would fit in the industry, so i can focus my job hunt accordingly.
親愛的安妮：我想換個工作，希望把我20年的消費產品行銷和品牌推廣經驗套用到醫療行業。我正打算與我認識的醫療公司資深管理人員進行一對一的面談，部分原因是想知道他們認為我適合這個行業的哪些工作，這樣我可以相應地調整求職重心。
these are very busy people, so i want to make the most of whatever time they can give me. coincidentally, my daughter, who is graduating this spring and wants to go into finance, is doing informational interviews with people in that field (on the advice of a career counselor at her college). we've come up with a short list of questions, but do you or your readers have any suggestions? is there anything to avoid asking? -- dallas dad
他們都是大忙人，因此我想充分利用他們給我的時間。巧合的是，我的女兒在今年春季畢業，想要進入金融業，她正在與那個行業里的人進行信息面談(這是她所在學校里的職業顧問提供的建議)。我們已經制定了一個簡短的問題列表，對此你或者你的讀者有何建議?有什麼避諱嗎?——達拉斯老爹
dear d.d.:interesting question. since your goal in an informational interview is to find out as much as you can about your chosen field, the more you already know about it, the better. "so be sure to research both the latest developments in the industry and the background of the person you're meeting," says paul freiberger, a former mckinsey consultant who now runs a career coaching firm called shimmering resumes and the author of when can you start?: how to ace the interview and win the job.
親愛的達拉斯老爹：您的問題很有意思。由於信息面試的目的是儘可能多地了解特定行業的情況，因此事先對這個行業知道的越多就越好。“所以，要調查那個行業的最新情況，也要了解與你會面的那個人的背景，”保羅•弗雷伯格說。他曾是麥肯錫公司(mckinsey)的顧問，現在經營著就業指導公司shimmering resumes，還著有《何時開始?：成功面試好上崗》(when can you start?: how to ace the interview and win the job)一書。
"keep your questions open-ended," he adds. "questions that can be answered with a simple yes or no are dead ends. in order to gain any real insight from it, you want the interview to expand into a working conversation between two people with shared interests. open-ended questions push things in that direction."
“要提出開放式問題”他說。“能用是或否來回答的問題屬於封閉式問題。為了從提問中獲得真正的見解，需要把面談變成兩個擁有共同興趣的人之間的工作談話。開放式問題能夠把談話推往那個方向。”
naturally, what you ask depends on what interests you most and will vary with each of your interviewees, but freiberger suggests these queries as possible starting points:
自然，你問的問題取決於你最感興趣的是什麼，而且應該根據被提問者的不同而發生變化。但弗雷伯格認為，下面這些問題或許是良好的開始：