第七節 外企麵試最常見的36個英文問題(4)
回答示範1： My least favorite courses include Marxism and Revolutionary History of China. I don’t like these subjects not because I am not a patriot─actually I love my country and I am fascinated by its revolutionary history. However, these subjects turned out to be disappointments as the textbooks and the ways they were taught were nothing but a repetition of the history subjects in our secondary school.
點評1： 在和老外麵試的時候， 要注意文化差異， 他可能很難理解中國學生為什麽不喜歡學“馬哲”和“中國革命史”， 所以你需要解釋一下， 這並非是我們不愛國， 而是這兩門課程幾十年如一日的老麵孔， 學生在高中就已經學過， 老師也不願意對教學法進行創新。
回答示範2： I found Macroeconomics and Microeconomics disappointing as well, for the reason that their information fell behind the times. For example, the exchange rate between RMB and USD stilled remained 8.3 : 1 in the text! You can imagine how disappointed we were. So I spent more time listening to the lectures on economics organized by the Student Union.
點評2： 這個答案相比而言更好一些， 因為它體現出了申請人對知識的渴望， 以及在課堂上得不到知識時如何去自我進修。
7. Other than the courses you studied, what is the most important thing you learned from your college experience? 除了學習方麵， 你在大學裏麵最大的收獲是什麽？
問題分析： 外國麵試官的思維往往非常直接， 他堅持認為， 隻有在大學裏麵有巨大收獲的人， 才能在工作崗位上取得巨大收獲。所以說， 千萬不要天真地說： 我在大學裏學會了自理， 學會了安排自己的生活！暈， 這是baby的成就， 絕對不能拿到大學裏麵來說了!
回答示範1： Well, I think the most important thing I have learnt in university is how to set appropriate goals and see them through. You know it is so easy for university students to waste time if they don’t set goals, so I set demanding goals to motivate myself. One is that I decided to get scholarships each year, the other one is that I decided to be the leader of a club on campus. Neither was easy, but in more than three years, I managed to achieve both. (點評： 麵試官一定會追問你是怎麽實現兩個目標的。) Getting scholarship wasn’t quite difficult for me. Running for Presidency of a club, however, was more difficult than I expected as there was so much competition. To achieve the goal I changed my strategy. I transferred from the Student Union to a newly-founded union. And within 6 months, I acquired more than 20 members and organized a few eye-catching activities. As a result, I became the leader of that club. I think I've learnt not only to set a demanding goal, but also how to overcome all the difficulties to achieve it.
點評1： 這是一個很漂亮的回答， 體現了自己的優點： 既能夠給自己設立比較高的目標， 也擅長克服困難， 實現自己的目標。麵試官最喜歡的人選， 就是這種“目標導向型”的申請人。
回答示範2： My biggest achievement in my college life, I think, is that I have learnt to make choices. You know, there are various activities and part time jobs on campus, each sounds attractive. I’ve carefully chosen some of them which can help to achieve my long term career goal. I have said "no" to lots of invitations, like the dancing contests each year. I only participated in one of them and decided that rehearsals occupy too much time. In my opinion, nothing is more important than making the right choice.