面试宝典:棘手英语面试问题大解析
求职者在面试中,唯一的目的是说服面试官聘用自己,但面试中,常会碰到棘手的问题,求职者不知道该如何回答?本文整理了英语面试中两个棘手的问题,并在下文中配上了详细解析和值得参考的回答,希望对大家有所帮助。
were some of your achievements in your last job?
在上一份工作中, 你有哪些成就?
问题分析: 一个颠扑不破的面试哲学是: 在上一份工作中有成就的, 才有可能在新工作中有成就。在回答这个问题的时候, 一般要遵守一个原则: 用事实与数字说话。
回答示范1: I was named “Employee of the Year,” for the highest level of accuracy of all 18 bank tellers last year.
回答示范2: I increased sales approximately 100% in three years. Last year I personally sold 1.5 million Yuan worth of services and was ranked number 2 in the entire company among 14 sales reps.
回答示范3: I suggested to my boss that we should create a new type of customer satisfaction survey. This suggestion was applied later and effectively reduced customer complaints.
were some of the disappointments in your last job?
在上一份工作中, 你比较失望的地方或者失败是什么?
问题分析: 这个问题相当棘手。太真实可能会吓坏面试官, 太虚伪又没法令人相信。比较好的应对方式是, 给对方列举一些非致命的失败, 同时, 这些失败是由于自己所订立的目标比较高。
回答示范: I failed to achieve the sales target last year, I sold a million and a half but the target was two million. Our Beijing headquarters is having some problems and can’t provide effective pre-sales support for us. Failing to reach the target is a big disappointment for me.
点评: 一个很好的回答, 体现出了一个销售人员对完成任务的强烈的渴望, 同时也顺便带出了自己完不成任务的客观理由。
would you evaluate the progress you made in your last job?
你如何来评价自己在上一份工作中的表现?
问题分析: 对于在上一份工作中表现平平的申请人, 这个问题简直如芒刺在背, 痛苦啊。但是, 哪怕面壁三天、 掘地三尺也要想出一两个你在上一份工作中的亮点, 否则, 只能在面试时芒刺在背了。
回答示范1: I am very proud of the progress I made in my last job. I joined the company as a new hand, but after only a year and a half, I was promoted to team leader. I could achieve such a rapid progress partly because my last job was in a small firm. If I can make the same progress in a large company like GE, I would be prouder.
回答示范2: Well, I would give myself 70% if 100 means full satisfaction. I had some achievements in my last job. For example, I got 80-89% in the annual evaluation last year, which was 60%. The promotion program I organized on Wangfujing Road was highly successful and my client was very pleased. However, the results of several other programs were not quite satisfactory due to some reasons I couldn’t control. Actually that’s why I want to quit.
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