应聘面试中常用的英语对话(5)

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　　Q:When do you have difficulty making choices?

　　A:Im not particularly good at interpreting survey data.Ive really worked to get to know our research staff and librarians.I rely on them and am careful to thank them formally in front of my vice president.Were definitely a team,and I'm careful not to take credit for our industry reports,which we publish for the Pacific region of our firm.

　　问：描述一次机遇，这次机遇让你觉得承担的风险比所得的回报要高。

　　答：有一次，我们有机会从一家解散了的公司手中购买廉价运输设备。尽管我们知道五年后要对分布的设备进行大检修，但我觉得花钱购买一些五年中闲置的设备不切实际。

　　如果市场情报能预示在最近两年内有新的廉价商品的话，我会抓住机会的。面试官想看到应试者乐于承担理性的风险而不是干蠢事。举例说明你作出反对某项计划或抉择的理由？如何使结果比原计划处理得更好？

　　Qescribe an opportunity in which you felt the risks far outweighed the rewards.

　　A:At one point we had an opportunity to purchase conveyor equipment at thirty cents on the dollar from a company that had dissolved.Although we anticipated an overhaul of our distribution facility five years down the road,I felt it was too far into the future to spend money only to have idle capacity for a fiveyear period.If market conditions had shown more promise for new sales in the initial twoyear period,I would have gone ahead with it.

　问：告诉我一个曾令你对自己的表现感到失望的项目。

　　答：我以前在一家制造业公司工作时，必须对所有供应商的开价（发盘）作出分析，然后把建议提交给后勤部副部长。由于供应商开价并不统一，我的分析报告通常要对不同的项目作比较，这就令报告显得有点混乱，直到我把报告重新整理并提交给副部长时，我们已经错过了对价格进行审批的关键时刻。事后回想起来，我想我本该采取简单的方法解决问题，而不是把所有的东西都放在一起考虑，把问题复杂化。自那以后，我更加注意及时地提出建议。

　　描述你工作中遇到的一些阻碍，以及你是怎样尽力去克服它们的。你的技能起到怎样的作用？事后回想起来，你当时该采取什么不同的做法？吸取了什么样的教训？

　　Q:Tell me about a project in which you were disappointed with your personal performance.

　　A:In my last job for a manufacturing company, I had to analyze all of the supplier bids and present recommendations to the vice president of logistics. Because the supplier bids werent in a uniform format, my analysis often consisted of comparing dissimilar items. This caused some confusion in my final report, and by the time Id reworked it and presented it to the ice president, we'd lost the critical time we needed to improve our approval process for these bids. In hindsight I should have taken a simpler approach to the problem and not tried to make it so complex or all inclusive. Ever since, Ive paid more attention to making recommendations in a timely manner.