英文面试技巧.docx

一、英文面试技巧1二、常见英文面试问题109道及答案7三、面试中最常问的英文题目及应答策略67四、英语面试十三招71五、常见的英文的面试难题(中英文问及答)168六、最全的面试问题及建议答案243七、英语口语九百句329 398 / 399一、英文面试技巧如果你获得了第一轮英文面试（The first round English interview）的机会，预示着你梦想的职位正向你招手，这轮面试的分量可想而知，所以你应该确保在面试中发挥最佳状态。其实，英文交流无障碍的应聘者为数不多，大多数人都处于有一定交流基础、但经验不足的水平，以下介绍一些面试中的注意事项，希望帮助英文水平并不是特别出众的你规避硬伤。Self-introduction忌面面俱到尽管最近有人认为面试时做自我介绍不流行了，但是准备一份正常语速下3分钟长度的英文自我简介是必要的。首先，自我简介是自我介绍的总纲，是保证你在面对任何问题时都能够应对自如的前提；其次，有备无患嘛。如果试图在短短几分钟内吸引面试官的注意力，你的简介当然要是浓缩的精品。所以，前奏一般用一句话陈述自己的基本特征即可。然后迅速进入正题，或选择自己最引以为傲的经历叙述，或介绍自己的长处。切记，面试官一般会承接你的自我介绍发问，所以在做自我介绍时最好不要提特别难于讲清楚的事情和比较抽象的概念，因为你的英文水平只够应付普通会话，更何况身处高度紧张的面试氛围中，哪里还能够应对自如。简介不需要面面俱到，因为在你曾经提交的资料中，已有详细的介绍，所以力求在面试中突出重点。Personal Statement忌语速过快很多应聘者认为只要在外国面试官前把英文说“溜”即可，其他的无所谓，于是语速狂飙。我们经常看到这种情形，在你口吐莲花之后，满场静寂，老外目瞪口呆，因为他们没有听懂你赶火车似的中式英文。其实，英文面试的第一目的是让国外主管了解你，甚至对你感兴趣，最重要的是展示你的综合素质，绝非单单的语言能力，所以您应该首先力求表达清晰。另外语速过快容易给人不自信、不稳重的错觉。剑桥大学的一项调查显示，语速快一般体现具备两种不同特质的人，一种是思维和语言反应能力强且协调的人，一种是处事急躁的人，万一人家把你理解为第二种怎么办？Three be/ I believe简单直白最好用简单直白的语言表现最具魅力的自我，才是中英文面试的至高境界。习惯于堆砌华丽词藻的很多人恨不得在面试中用大气磅礴的英文演讲征服面试官，其实又犯了舍本逐末的错误。不要不屑于用there be句型，不要不屑于用第一人称，不要想着那些一辈子也用不上几次的虚拟语气、倒装句和长词冗句，如果你能保证说英文如行云流水那么你尽情用，但万一紧张得忘了词怎么办？万一面试官和你展开辩论怎么办？用平实的语言直切正题是最讨巧的方式。如果你凭实力进入了free talk阶段，接下来要做的就是坦率的与面试官讨论大到企业未来，小到穿着打扮的话题，当然坦率也要聪明。那时候面试官有可能思维如野马，你很难把握他所关注的你身上的特质，你也无法预知他会问你些什么，那么以上这几点仍然是唯一可遵循的规律。如何在外企英语面试中脱颖而出？如何有效的运用英语在外企英文面试中打动面试官？在外企口语面试中应该避免哪些内容？外企面试看种什么样的英语证书？尼克英语介绍以下几点建议：、流利而准确的英语表达能力将成为你的职场竞争力。外企英语面试和雅思托福等出国考试不一样。前者是竞争型测试，后者是通过型测试。也就是说，参加出国考试的通过人数没有名额限制，你只要能力足够高，发挥得足够好，就能够pass。然而外企招聘却是有名额限制的，只有优于他人的应聘者才可能在外企英文面试中脱颖而出。专业而熟练的职业技能结合流利的口语表达、清晰的英语思维、地道的英语发音、准确而恰当的俚语运用、跨文化沟通技巧等将成为你应聘外企的主要竞争力。外教William Hill先生告诉我们：“I interviewed a lot of candidates in Shanghai, a few of which did impress me deeply with veteran skills. I was surprised at their spoken English because they appeared to be a Chinese American. I just couldnt decline them.”在多人竞争某一职位时，简单的“可以理解的”初级英语层次显然不能够凸显个人实力。William Hill先生建议应聘者不妨关注一下自己的英语表达和发音，中国式英语是应该避免的，多了解你即将应聘的外企的国家文化，因为每个国家的文化不同会使面试过程的氛围也不同。相对来讲美国企业的面试比较relaxing，有点像一般的聊天，只不过聊的内容不是普通的“闲聊”。如果在外企英文面试中能准确地融入一些该国的俚语，则你的面试过程将会非常的愉快。2、外企招聘时看重哪些英语证书？如果外企的面试官是老外的话，那么国内的一些英语考试如CET4、CET6、TEM4、TEM8等可能作用并不明显，除了老外不了解这些考试外更多的在于这些考试并没有对考生的口语能力进行测试。关于这个问题William Hill说：“I dont think candidates with those certificates are up to par, because what we focus on is the communicating ability. And, as is known, CET and TEM dont seem to test ones speaking skills. But he who owns an IELTS or TOEFL certificate may be preferred.”可见雅思、托福等出国英语证书可能在一定程度上增强应聘者的竞争力。常见典型问题拆招：3、关于介绍自己的：这个问题可以说是大众问题了，通过这个问题，面试官一方面大致把握一下你的英语水平，一方面找到和你交流的突破点，探寻本质，打破沙锅是人力资源经理的一惯作风，因此回答这个问题时务必事实求是，否则后面很可能无法自圆其说。不过这个问题其实也不复杂，外教William Hill告诉我们说与其说这个是测试应聘者的问题，不如说是应聘者卖弄自己英语的大好机会，So dont miss the boat！你可以从以下几个方面突出自己：职业技能强项，该技能的深入程度，该技能完成过的项目以及自己其他相关方面的深入研究和学习、探索，注意突出个性。请不要在自己的姓名、年龄、毕业学校、兴趣爱好等方面浪费时间，也不用再把你的简历背诵一遍，因为老外已经看过你的CV了。时间可以根据情况控制在2-3分钟的样子。注意外企英语面试是口头表达的过程，建议在随后的互动过程中多多使用口语化的表达，尽量让自己融入整个对话（Conversation），而不是在教条式的背诵文章。4、关于应聘动机的：面试官想了解一下你的求职动机，看看你对公司是否有所了解。显然这个功课是你来面试之前就应该做好的，所以千万别说开始面试了还不知道这个公司是做什么的。请在回答这个问题的时候充满信心，不要说是来试试的（you really wanna take a try?），如果能事先将公司信息整理好并梳理一下和自己的职业技能相结合来介绍，则可谓Perfect Response。5、关于你的弱点：注意后面那句是客气的，千万别说No，也别说I dont think I have any weakness。客观地评价一下自己确实存在但对工作并不重要的缺点是一个不错的办法，当然别忘了要提一下你将采取什么样的办法来克服或弥补自己的缺点。6、关于你过去的工作：面试官想通过你对过去的工作的看法，了解你对今后的工作态度。如果你说你不喜欢你过去的工作，那么你将面临“既然不喜欢为什么却会选择”这样的难题，最终结果是“缺乏判断力或者没有主见”。事实上你既然做过以前的工作，那么应该多少还是比较喜欢的，不妨谈谈过去的工作特点和你所负责的主要任务，但要突出过去的工作趋于平淡且失去挑战性，你可以在更艰巨的任务和岗位中发挥能力。同时面试官极有可能问你以前的同事和上司的一些问题，切记不要把责任归咎到别人身上。7、关于你将来的打算：这个问题对职场老手来说简直就是a piece of cake。简洁的几句话表达出你希望在这个公司一直工作下去即可，同时要体现出你的上进心，渴望与公司一起发展和进步，不断提升自己。8、反问的机会：“Nope, I have none, thanks!”这样的回答就完全错了。抓住这个机会，把事先准备好的问题和盘托出，多了解一些关于公司发展、职位要求、员工培训、员工晋升、员工福利等方面的问题。其实外企英语面试并没有什么特别之处，话题内容上也跳不出中文面试的框框，无非是用英语来表达而已。在某些特定职位的招聘上，可能外企更看重的是个人的职业能力而对英语表达要求甚低；或者在某些特定的条件下没有太多的竞争者，应聘者不需要具备非常好的英语听说能力就可拿到offer。但这些情况并不影响我们对自身竞争力的提升，卓越的英语听说能力必将为你的职场生涯带来裨益。一些可能用得上的俚语表达：注意1、up to par 达到标准。2、I wont let the cat out of the bag. 我会严守秘密。3、get on the ball 开始（做事）4、a piece of cake 形容非常容易5、face the music 勇于承担责任二、常见英文面试问题109道及答案1. How would you describe yourself?Sample excellent response: My background to date has been centered around preparing myself to become the very best financial consultant I can become. Let me tell you specifically how Ive prepared myself. I am an undergraduate student in finance and accounting at _ University. My past experiences has been in retail and higher education. Both aspects have prepared me well for this career.2. What specific goals, including those related to your occupation, have you established for your life?Sample excellent response: I want to be working for an excellent company like yours in a job in which I am managing information. I plan to contribute my leadership, interpersonal, and technical skills. My long-range career goal is to be the best information systems technician I can for the company I work for.3. How has your college experience prepared you for a business career?Sample excellent response: I have prepared myself to transition into the the work force through real-world experience involving travel abroad, internship, and entrepreneurial opportunities. While interning with a private organization in Ecuador, I developed a 15-page marketing plan composed in Spanish that recommended more effective ways the company could promote its services. I also traveled abroad on two other occasions in which I researched the indigenous culture of the Mayan Indians in Todos Santos, Guatemala, and participate din a total language immersion program in Costa Rica. As you can see from my academic, extracurricular, and experiential background, I have unconditionally committed myself to success as a marketing professional.4. Please describe the ideal job for you following graduation.Sample excellent response (equates ideal job with job hes interviewing for): My ideal job is one that incorporates both my education and practical work skills to be the best I can be. Namely combining my education in finance with my working knowledge of customer service operations, entrepreneurial abilities, computer skills, and administrative skills. I want to utilize my analytical expertise to help people meet their financial goals. This is exactly why I am convinced that I would be a very valuable member of the Merrill Lynch team.5. What influenced you to choose this career?Sample excellent response: My past experiences have shown me that I enjoy facing and overcoming the challenge of making a sale. Without a doubt, once I have practiced my presentation and prepared myself for objections, I feel very confident approaching people I dont know and convincing them that they need my product. Lastly, I like sales because my potential for success is limited only by how much of myself I dedicate toward my goal. If any profession is founded on self-determinism, it surely must be sales.6. At what point did you choose this career?Sample excellent response: I knew that I wanted to pursue information systems technology about my sophomore year in college. It was then that I realized that my that my hobby (computers) was taking up most of my time. My favorite courses were IT courses. I also realized that I was doing computer-oriented work-study that I enjoyed so much I would have done it for free.7. What specific goals have you established for your career?Sample excellent response: My goals include becoming a Certified Financial Advisor so I can obtain a better working knowledge of financial research analysis, which would allow me contribute to my client base as a better financial consultant since I would have that extra insight into the companies they are seeking to invest in. Also this is the foundation block to advancing my career to portfolio manager or even branch office manager.8. What will it take to attain your goals, and what steps have you taken toward attaining them?Sample excellent response: Ive already done some research on other workers at Merrill Lynch to see how they achieved similar goals. I know that Merrill Lynch encourages the pursuit and will reimburse for tuition of a graduate degree. I plan on pursuing a MBA to give me an even more extensive knowledge of business and financial analysis.9. What do you think it takes to be successful in this career?Sample excellent response: I believe successful salespeople put forth that extra effort that turns potential clients into first-time customers. Salespeople who attend to the details by doing whatever it takes to win over a prospective customer distinguish themselves from the countless others who dont go to any extra effort. Second, I think that if you label success as an attainable goal, you will never consistently remain successful. You can only succeed if you learn all there is to learn about your product, your competitors, and personal selling. Since this learning process is continuous, its an unattainable goal. With good reason, salespeople should not consider success an attainable ending point but an objective that will always linger slightly beyond their reach.10. How do you determine or evaluate success? Give me an example of one of your successful accomplishments.Sample excellent response:Last semester I was hired by by universitys Council for Student Activities. The group negotiates contracts of entertainers, sets up sound equipment, markets the entertainers to students, and generally decides what kind of programming should be done. When I got hired, I didnt know the first thing about how fill any of those responsibilities. I decided, however, that I wasnt going to fail. Four months later, I have become the Webmaster for the group. I also write our campus newsletter and created Game Night, a student competition of table games. That event yielded the biggest audience ever for a non-concert event.11. Do you have the qualifications and personal characteristics necessary for success in your chosen career?Sample excellent response: I believe I have a combination of qualities to be successful in this career. First, I have a strong interest, backed by a solid, well-rounded, state-of-the-art education, especially in a career that is technically oriented. This basic ingredient, backed by love of learning, problem-solving skills, well-rounded interests, determination to succeed and excel, strong communication skills, and the ability to work hard, are the most important qualities that will help me succeed in this career. To succeed, you also need a natural curiosity about how systems work - the kind of curiosity I demonstrated when I upgraded my two computers recently. Technology is constantly changing, so you must a fast learner just to keep up or you will be overwhelmed. All of these traits combine to create a solid team member in the ever-changing field of information systems. I am convinced that I possess these characteristics and am ready to be a successful team member for your firm.12. What has been your most rewarding accomplishment?Sample excellent response: A recent satisfying accomplishment I was sent to one of our branch banks that was notorious for not growing their loan base. The branch had logged $75,000 in new loans in an 18-month period prior to my arrival. Having a reputation as a hired gun when it came to loan production I was successful in the solicitation and booking of $700,000 in my first six months at the branch.13. If you could do so, how would you plan your college career differently?Sample excellent response: I wouldnt change anything. All that I have done was a great learning experience that I will carry forward throughout the rest of my life.14. Are you more energized by working with data or by collaborating with other individuals?Sample excellent response: I like the validity of information and also like the energy that comes with working with people. The best thing about working in a group is combining the great minds from different perspectives and coming up with something extremely great, compared with when youre working alone. At the same time, information can generate vitality in the project youre working on. No matter how many heads youve got together, without information, you cant go very far. The perfect situation would be a combination of working with information and people, and Im confident of my abilities in both areas. Submitted by Stacey15. How would you describe yourself in terms of your ability to work as a member of a team?Sample excellent response: I have had many opportunities in both athletics and academics to develop my skills as a team player. My tenure as a rower with my colleges crew team serves as a good example. I learned a great deal about teamwork while rowing because all the rowers in the boat must act as one, which meant that we incessantly worked to keep each movement in the boat synchronized. On an individual basis, we still worked toward group goals through weightlifting and land-rowing. My experience as a marketing research team leader also helped me to learn the role of team player. I viewed my position as that of group leader and of group member. I ensured that everyone in the group had equal opportunity to contribute, maintained excellent communication among group members, and coordinated their energies toward reaching our teams goal.16. What motivates you to put forth you greatest effort?Sample excellent response: You would think that because I am interested in sales, only financial compensation would motivate me to achieve. Although monetary rewards are important to me, I am driven to succeed internally. More than anything, I want to be respected by my friends and coworkers for being the best at what I do. Whether I am considered to be the best car detailer in my hometown or the best columnist for my college newspaper, I want to be recognized as the best.17. Given the investment our company will make in hiring and training you, can you give us a reason to hire you?Sample excellent response: I sincerely believe that Im the best person for the job. I realize that there are many other college students who have the ability to do this job. I also have that ability. But I also bring an additional quality that makes me the very best person for the job - my attitude for excellence. Not just giving lip service to excellence, but putting every part of myself into achieving it. In college and at my previous jobs, I have consistently reached for becoming the very best I can become. I think my leadership awards from my college, and my management positions are the result of possessing the qualities youre looking for in an employee.18. Would you describe yourself as goal-driven?Sample excellent response: Yes, and I demonstrated my goal orientation as president of the local Jaycees, a community service organization. I am very proud of the fact that I set a goal of signing 50 new members by the end of the year, and I accomplished that.19. Describe what youve accomplished toward reaching a recent goal for yourself.Sample excellent response:My first few years in banking had me on the fast track to branch management. I realized at some point along the way that my true passion was in offering financial advice not limited to checking accounts and loans. It was at that point that I made the necessary arrangements to go back to school full-time to pursue my goal, which I am just about to achieve.20. What short-term goals and objectives have you established for yourself?Sample excellent response: My short-term objectives are to graduate from the Professional Development Program before the standard two years and begin developing a clientele. As an intern, I prepared ahead of time by studying for the Series 7 and Series 64 exams that constitute a majority of a beginning financial consultants time. Id like to make make the company that hires me wonder what it ever did without me.21. Can you describe your long-range goals and objectives?Sample excellent response: My primary objectives are to learn as much as possible about your companys product offering, organizational structure, and professional sales techniques so that I may become the most productive member of your sales team.22. What do you expect to be doing in five years?Sample excellent response: Although it is hard to predict the future, I sincerely believe that I will become a very good financial consultant. I believe that my abilities will allow me to excel to the point that I can seek other opportunities as a portfolio manager (the next step) and possibly even higher. My ultimate goal continues to be - and will always be - to be the best at whatever level I am working at within Merrill Lynchs corporate structure.23. What do you see yourself doing in ten years?Sample excellent response: Ten years from now I see myself as a successful consultant for a world-class firm like yours. I want to have developed a wonderful bond with my employer I will have proven myself a highly competent systems analyst and will represent my company in helping others find solutions to their information-systems needs in a professional and timely manner.24. How would you evaluate your ability to deal with conflict?Sample excellent response: I believe I am quite good at handling conflict. Working in retail and in the residence halls required that I make many unpopular decisions at times, whether it was terminating an associate or taking judicial action on a resident. Often the person in conflict with me would be upset and sometimes physically outraged. I would always make sure that I fully explained the situation, the policies behind my decision, and why those policies exist