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_NEWSDATE: 2006-03-20 | News by: 大中报 | 有1人参与评论 | 专栏: 求职相关 | _FONTSIZE: _FONT_SMALL _FONT_MEDIUM _FONT_LARGE
● Michael Chen
Often, I have been asked to give advice to friends preparing for job interviews. The line I have used most often is: "Be yourself!"
经常有朋友问我，面试的注意事项。很多时候我都建议他们“表现你自己”。
Everyone has his/her view on job interviews. Many Chinese immigrants regard job interviews as an exam, a test or a competition. However, there is another aspect of the job interview, which is often forgotten: a job interview is not only an opportunity for employers to meet with the candidate and examine his/her fit with the job position, equally important, it is an opportunity for the candidate to inspect the employer, the job responsibilities and prospective colleagues, and to find out if it would be a suitable job for him/her. The latter are easily forgotten or ignored, especially when the job market is slow and candidate is in a "take any job" mood.
各人对面试都有不同的看法，很多移民都把面试看作一场考试，就像竞赛一样。其实，很多人忽略了面试的另一个侧面，就是面试不单是雇主考察求职者的一次过程，同时，面试也给求职者一个机会去了解雇主、工作细节甚至是了解未来的同事，从而决定这份工作是否合适。后者经常在面试的时候被我们遗忘。特别是在工作市场不景气的情况底下，很多人都是抱着先找份工作再说的心情。
When friends turn to me for advice, I always suggest that they look at the job opportunity from an inspector's point of view. One of them had a strong background and had worked out an eye-catching résumé. However, despite going through dozens of interviews, he did not receive a single offer. We went through an interview rehearsal. Although his resume was very well organized, it did not have an interview version. We worked together on his interview strategy and got his résumé reorganized to form an interview version. He walked into a job interview the next day and got AN offer three days later.
朋友找工作问我建议的时候，我总是建议他们从审查的角度去看待这份工作。曾经有一个背景很强并且有很吸引人的简历，但是几十次的面谈都没有结果。我跟他一起模拟了一次工作面谈，发现虽然他的纸面建立很完善，但是他并没有准备一个面试版本的简历。我们谈了一些面试的技巧，又重新组织了一下他简历以备面试。第二天他参加了一个面试，三天后就得到了那份工作。
It is very important to be prepared, to be organized and to be confident in a job interview. There are quite a few courses that give you instructions on handling job interviews and there are even workshops to help you develop more confidence in order to clear these hurdles.
面试的准备非常重要，对你自己的经历要有条理，并且要对自己有信心。现在市场上有很多面试的课程，教会你怎么应付面试。甚至有些模拟面试短训班能帮助你建立面试的信心，从容走过面试的门槛。
Like most other skills, overusing these skills will also blow your opportunity away or land you into an awkward situation -- either getting a job that you don't like, or being unable to get a job that you do like.
当然，跟所有的其他技巧一样，过分依赖面试技巧而忽视了自己和工作的和谐程度，往往也会让你处于一种尴尬的境地。有时候是进入了一个你不喜欢的工作环境里面，或者是没有得到你能够得心应手的工作。
In one of my recent hiring experiences, I was really disappointed with one of the candidates who, like me, also originated from China. The man had obtained a graduate degree in Canada and had extensive working experience in the US. Because of the tight hiring schedule, I was ready to say "welcome aboard" on the spot based on his impressive résumé. Having been working in the US for several years, I expected him to be able to communicate in English but, surprisingly, his English was very limited. Although English communication is required, I figured that I might be able to help him to fill in the language gap if he had good technical skills. In the technical discussion, we realized that his technical background was quite different than our environment. Furthermore, when he was asked to explain some of the scenarios, he started to talk about something totally irrelevant. I hoped he was merely trying to divert the questions that he could not answer. However, it was really not a smart approach. Interview skills are not tricks. In some of the interview "skills" you might be told to avoid what you don't know and say what you do know, but diverting questions will not make people believe you know the answer, while causing more damage as it makes people think you don't understand the question. Communication is the key in business. As I am looking for someone to work with me, it is acceptable if he does not know the answer but can learn and find the answer while it is not acceptable if he does not even understand the question, fails to ask for clarification and heads in the wrong direction.- 新闻来源于其它媒体，内容不代表本站立场！
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