100127163923_bbc_bc_business_interviews.pdf

Business Expert – Job Interviews Keith Dugdale 1/5 阅读理解练习 1. 在准备面试时需要考虑哪两个方面？ 2. 在面试中是否需要着重表现自己在学业方面的成绩？ 3. 在面试中一定要避免谈到自己所经历的任何失败。这一说法是否正确？ 4. 在面试中回答问题的语言组织方面，Keith作何建议？ 5. Keith建议在面试中使用哪些不同的肢体语言？ Tip 1 I think the first and most important thing to say is you need to prepare. It’s just like an exam – you know, could you imagine as a student going into an exam without preparing? I hope not. If you fail to prepare, really you prepare to fail. Tip 2 In preparing, you need to think about two things. First of all, yourself. What’s really important to you and what kind of skills have you got that you can offer an employer? The other side of preparation is researching the employer. We expect you to have been on the web 因特网 and done some research. And the candidate who really stands out is the candidate actually who’s gone one step further. They may, for example, have downloaded a copy of our annual report and be able to talk about that. They may actually have sought out 找出 somebody who works at KPMG and chatted to them about the job and the careers service at the university will help them with that kind of thing. Tip 3 Let me share with you how I would actually prepare for an interview because I do it really really rigorously 严格的、全面的. My last interview, I would say I probably prepared for two to three days. First thing I do is to try to think about the organisation and what questions it’s going to ask me. And I make a list of all those questions – maybe ten, twenty, thirty – what are they going to ask? What do they want to know about? And then what I do is, I develop specific concrete 具体的、实际的 examples which will enable me to answer those questions and I rehearse those. I actually wander round the room, I look in mirrors and talk to myself. And I use a tape recorder to play it back to me. And then the final thing I do is that I go to my wife and I get her to ask me the questions I think I’m going to be asked and we r