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日期: 2006-03-20 | 來源: 大中報 | 有1人參與評論 | 專欄: 求職相關 | 字體: 小 中 大
● 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!"
經常有朋友問我，面試的注意事項。很多時候我都建議他們“表現你自己”。
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.
各人對面試都有不同的看法，很多移民都把面試看作壹場考試，就像競賽壹樣。其實，很多人忽略了面試的另壹個側面，就是面試不單是雇主考察求職者的壹次過程，同時，面試也給求職者壹個機會去了解雇主、工作細節甚至是了解未來的同事，從而決定這份工作是否合適。後者經常在面試的時候被我們遺忘。特別是在工作市場不景氣的情況底下，很多人都是抱著先找份工作再說的心情。
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.
朋友找工作問我建議的時候，我總是建議他們從審查的角度去看待這份工作。曾經有壹個背景很強並且有很吸引人的簡歷，但是幾拾次的面談都沒有結果。我跟他壹起模擬了壹次工作面談，發現雖然他的紙面建立很完善，但是他並沒有准備壹個面試版本的簡歷。我們談了壹些面試的技巧，又重新組織了壹下他簡歷以備面試。第贰天他參加了壹個面試，叁天後就得到了那份工作。
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.
面試的准備非常重要，對你自己的經歷要有條理，並且要對自己有信心。現在市場上有很多面試的課程，教會你怎麼應付面試。甚至有些模擬面試短訓班能幫助你建立面試的信心，從容走過面試的門檻。
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.
當然，跟所有的其他技巧壹樣，過分依賴面試技巧而忽視了自己和工作的和諧程度，往往也會讓你處於壹種尷尬的境地。有時候是進入了壹個你不喜歡的工作環境裡面，或者是沒有得到你能夠得心應手的工作。
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.- 新聞來源於其它媒體，內容不代表本站立場！
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