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How to Succeed at Interviews
The aim of a job interview is to establish whether you are likely to do well in a particular job in a specific organisation. This is not only a matter of having the necessary technical knowledge and skills. You must also have the motivation, the ability to adapt to new ways of working and to a new work environment, and the personality to do the job and fit into a new team. (example)____. These include getting on with people, oral and written communication, teamworking, problem solving and good time management.
Most people think that interviewers know what they are looking for and will recognise it when they see it. (8) ____. This applies to recruiters as much as anyone else. In fact a former head of selection at one big firm used to say that “some interviewers are so poor they would do better to rely on chance”.
In companies which recognise this, various methods are used to try to find the right person (9) ____. Research has shown that this approach is more reliable than the ordinary job interview, though not as effective as using personality tests or assessment centres.
In a structured interview the interviewer groups the qualities listed in the job specification under various headings. There are two well-established structures for this: the National Institute of Industrial Psychology’s Seven-Point Plan and the Five-Fold Grading System. Both these systems cover factors such as physical appearance, qualifications, general intelligence, motivation and previous experience.(10) ____.
However, they should not give equal weight to each one. Some factors are more important in one job than another. For example, physical appearance and manner will be more important in a sales position than in a researcher who works behind the scenes. It is also a fact that the impact the candidate makes in the first three of four minutes of an interview is of major importance.(11) ____.A decision not to hire is often made during those first few minutes.
It is not always possible to tell whether structured interview techniques are being used. If interviewers ask questions systematically, using some kind of checklist, and occasionally make a brief note, they probably are. On the other hand, if the interviewer goes through your application form to confirm what you have already said, or asks irrelevant questions, or jumps from one topic to another the interview is unlikely to be structured. Before you attend any interview, look again at the job description and the personal specification. (12) ____. If you already have a mental list of the key points that you need to mention, you are unlikely to waste time giving irrelevant information or to omit important points in your favour.
A Study them closely and assess what your interviewer will be looking for.
B However, people are actually not very good at assessing one another.
C A number of skills are common to most of these interviewing situations.
D Although a favourable impression may be reversed later in the interview, a negative impression is rarely changed.
E The most common is the structured interview.
F The effectiveness of the interviewer can be improved by training.
G For each of these areas the interviewers score candidates against how well they fit the job specification.
H The ability to cope with stress and get on with people is essential.
I But there are other personal skills that affect your success in a job.
答案：8.B 9.E 10.G 11.D 12.A
今天，我要分享商務英語的知識，主要分享基本職場詞彙(essential job vocabulary).我以一個非常基本又非常常見的問題開始：Where do you work? 你在哪裡上班?
大家可不要小看這個問題，可以有四種回答方式，句型如下：
-I work at ......
-I work in ......
-I work for ......
-I work with......
這四個介詞不同，全部都是正確的，根據語境不同，區別如下：
(1)I work at/for.....+公司名稱; 比如：I work at Google.我在谷歌上班;I work for Nike.我在耐克上班;
(2)I work for ... + 人;比如：I work for Bingo. I'm his assistant.我的`老闆是Bingo，我是他助理;
(3) I work in ... +地方;比如：I work in an office. 我在辦公室上班;I work in a school.我在一個學校工作;
(4)I work in ... +城市/國家;比如：I work in Shanghai.我在上海工作;I work in China.我在中國工作;
(5)I work in ...+公司部門;比如：I work in sales.我在銷售部工作;I work in the marketing department.我在市場部工作。
(6)I work in ....+行業;比如：I work in finance.我是做金融行業的;I work in consulting.我是做諮詢行業的;
(7)I work with ...+你的工作物件;比如：I work with computers.我的工作跟電腦打交道;I work with special-needs children.我的工作是跟特需兒童打交道。
如果你想更具體，描述自己的工作職責，可以在後面加句型：I'm responsible for...... ，比如：I'm responsible for updating the company's website.我負責更新公司網站。
有時候老外也會不問where do you work，而是問相對更常見的What do you do或者What do you do for a living? 回答方法是一樣的。但如果你目前處於無業狀態的話，可以這麼說：
(1) I'm unemployed.我目前無僱主;
(2) I'm between jobs at the moment. 我目前無業;(between jobs顯得自己在不同工作之間來回表明自己在找工作，更委婉的表達)
如果你自己是老闆，你可以這麼說：
(1) I'm self-employed.我就是自己的僱主;
(2) I own a aurant/small company.我是一家餐廳老闆/我是一家小公司老闆。
接下來看看一些單詞：
如果你被一個公司正式僱傭了，這個動作就是他們hire你了，也就是你被hire了;例句：I was hired by an insurance company last week.上個禮拜一家保險公司僱了我。
被僱傭之後，你就是這個公司的employee(職員);這個公司就是你的employer(僱主);這個公司其他的職員就是你的colleagues或co-workers(同事);管你的那個人就是你的boss或supervisor(上級);工作後，你每個月都會earn a salary(賺一筆工資);如果你工作表現好的話，你可以會得到一個pay raise或raise(漲工資);也可以得到一個promotion(升職);每年年底呢，有些公司還會給優秀員工bonus(獎金);如果你犯錯誤，你的公司可能fire(解僱)你;比如：She got fired because she never came to work on time.由於她從來不準時上班，她被解僱了;如果你沒有犯錯，而是其他原因失去工作，這個叫被laid off了，比如公司裁員，縮小規模等。比如：I got laid off because my company started having financial problems.因為公司出現資金問題，我丟了工作。
如果你決定主動辭職離開公司，你可以說：
(1) I'm going to quit my job. (較口語)
(2) I'm going to leave my job. (口語正式均可)
(3) I'm going to resign. (較正式)
等你年紀大了你就會retire(退休);大部分國家的退休年齡都在65歲左右。
