面试遇到前男友是种怎样的体验？

• 被面试官发现自己的在撒谎，是不是死定了？

  
  
• 上个月麦当劳买了多少瓶辣椒酱到底怎么算？
• 面试官说我的实习经历很boring，我要怎么优雅地怼回去？

  
  
• 被问到有没有男/女朋友的时候，我可以拒绝回答吗？
• 还有比面试遇到前男友更让人崩溃的事吗？

Sample response: 

“I participated in a campus investing competition during my sophomore year, where I did in-depth research on the energy industry and recommended investing in Emphasis Energy. Their stock later rose by 75% and our team became the champion."

Sample response: 

“I applied to [Company name] and did marketing there for the summer. I did well and have helped the company improve their online marketing campaigns by over 30% in a month. However, I reflected and decided I wanted to do something more relevant to my finance major and quantitative in nature."

So I applied for private banking and interned in UBS last summer where I analyzed clients' portfolio and made investment recommendations. Through the internship, I networked greatly internally and therefore realize my greater interest, which is to work with clients on a larger scale."

1. 想知道你有多了解自己
2. 你有否有主动为自己的弱项／劣势做出改变

• 正面用词、态度回答一个本质负面的问题。听起来有点难。但是，面试官就是想看你在遇到难题、挑战的时候，你的weakness会否影响你完成工作任务。

• Focus on Solutions. 用一句带过你的弱项就足够，然后表达你已经从错失中学习，自己已经在（必须是已经）如何改进，或是你已经改正了多少。

• 用正面的态度回答这个问题。但不要显得虚伪，诚恳还是非常重要的。不要编一些你根本没有的weakness，甚至说你没有任何weakness，这样会显得你自视过高。

Sample response: 

“Well, I used to be pretty horrible at public speaking. When I started college, it was a massive problem, and I was just terrified of doing it, and I didn’t do a very good job. So first I took the small step of promising myself that I would speak up in front of really small groups, for example in class. Then, I worked up to taking a public speaking class, which made a big difference. Now, even though I get nervous, I feel like its something that doesn’t completely hold me back, and, in fact, recently I gave a speech at a conference to over 100 people. My hands were shaking the whole time, but I got really good feedback at the end.”

• Academics，such as class projects (How did you work with others? Lead others?)
• Sports (Will your goal-orientation transfer to your career? What did you learn about being a team player?)
• Activities (Have you published the story, given a speech, or marched in the Cal Band? Were you a leader?)
• Volunteer, work, or internship experiences (When did your performance exceed expectations? Achieve something new? Make things easier? Save or make money?)

SITUATION：Last semester, I was part of a team of five people for a group project in my Introduction to Marketing class. We were given the assignment to develop a marketing strategy for a new line of toys for Mattel. As part of the project, we were required to create a 15-page marketing plan by the end of the last day of class.

ACTION：I was the team leader, in charge of coordinating all of the group meetings and delegating tasks. I took the initiative to create a meeting schedule so that our group met every Wednesday afternoon, emailed the agenda to each group member prior to our meetings, and kept an Excel spreadsheet of all of the tasks. I also worked on making the team cohesive and supportive of each other by mediating conflicts. To do so, I facilitated discussions, listening to each member, and helping them to work towards a compromise.

RESULT：As a result of my efforts, we finished the project one week ahead of schedule and were chosen as the group with the “most innovative” marketing plan. Also, the number of conflicts between members significantly decreased and we were able to agree 

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