interviewer’s task is not to embarrass you or to trip you up, but to hire the right person for the job.
Remember, job hunting is very competitive. Anything you can do to enhance your interview techniques will be to your advantage. The following suggestions may help you land the most important job.
Your goal in this interview is to make sure your good points get across. The interviewer won’t know them unless you point them out, so try to do this in a factual and sincere manner.
Do not make slighting references to former employers or professors. If you have been fired from a job and the interviewer asks about it, be frank in your answer.
Show the interviewer that you are interested in the company by asking relevant questions. Ask about responsibilities,
working
conditions,
promotion
opportunities and fringe benefits (附加福利) of the job you are interviewing for.
If at some point you decide the interview is not going well, do not let your discouragement show. You have nothing to lose by continuing a show of confidence, and you may have much to gain. It may be real, or it may be a test to see how you react to adverse conditions.
Some interviewers may bring up salary early in the interview. At this time, you may indicate that you are more interested in a job where you can prove yourself than a specific salary. This politely passes the question back to the interviewer. If the interviewer continues to press, give him a range or suggest the going rate for a particular job. If possible, you should negotiate for salary after you have been offered a job and when you are ready to complete the paperwork.
6.
To get the job you want, during the interview you should______.
a)
avoid the interviewer’s questions that are designed to trip you up
b)
remember that you are the best qualified candidate make yourself stand out as the right person for the job keep in mind that it determines whether or not you get the particular job you want
c)
d)
7.
If you did not get along with your former employer, you _____.
a)
should tell the interviewer frankly should not speak ill of him
should refer to him in a factual manner should never mention it
b)
c)
d)
8.
When you find the interview is not going well you should ____.
a)
keep up your confidence
bring it to an end as soon as possible
b)
c)
tell you interviewer how you react to adverse conditions
d)
tell yourself you have much to gain and nothing to lose
9.
The best time to discuss your salary is ______.
a)
when you have been offered the job at the end of the interview
after you have completed the paperwork when the interviewer brings this matter up
b)
c)
d)
10. The most important thing to do during an interview is
_____.
a)
to make your strengths understood
to show your intense interest in the job you are applying for
b)
c)
to be frank and sincere
d)
to be natural and confident
Passage 3
In the course of my reading I had come across a case where, many years ago, some hunters on our Great Plains organized a buffalo hunt for the entertainment of an English earl (伯爵) and to provide some fresh meat for his use. They had charming sport. They killed seventy-two of those great animals; and ate part of one of them and left the seventy-one to rot. In order to determine the difference between an anaconda and an earl, I had several lambs turned into the anaconda’s cage. The grateful snake immediately crushed one of them and swallowed it, then lay back satisfied. It showed no further interest in the lambs, and no inclination to harm them. I tried this experiment with other anacondas; always with the same result. The fact stood proven that the difference between an earl and an anaconda is that the earl is cruel and the anaconda isn’t; and the earl wantonly (肆无忌惮地) destroyed what he has no use for, but the anaconda
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