常见英语面试问题及答案
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常见英语面试问题及答案
1. How would you describe yourself?
Sample excellent
response:
My background
to date has been centered around preparing
myself to bee the very best financial
consultant I can bee.
Let me ___ you
specifically how I've prepared myself. I am
an undergraduate student in finance and
aounting at
_________ University. My
past experiences has been in
retail and
higher education. Both aspects have prepared me
well for this career.
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2. What specific goals, including those related to
your
oupation, have you established for
your life?
Sample
excellent response:
I
want to be working for an excellent pany 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 pany I work
for.
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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
posed in Spanish that
remended more
effective ways the pany could promote its
services. I also traveled abroad on two
other oasions 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 mitted myself to suess
as a marketing professional.
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4. Please describe the ideal job for
you following
graduation.
Sample excellent response (equates
ideal job with job
he's interviewing
for):
My ideal job is
one that incorporates both my education
and practical work skills to be the
best I can be. Namely
bining my
education in finance with my working knowledge of
customer service operations,
entrepreneurial abilities,
puter
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.
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5. What influenced you to choose this career?
Sample excellent
response:
My past
experiences have shown me that I enjoy facing and
overing 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
don't know and convincing them
that they need my product.
Lastly, I
like sales because my potential for suess 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.
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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
(puters) was taking
up most of my time.
My favorite courses were IT courses. I
also realized that I was doing puter-
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 being 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 panies they are seeking to invest
in. Also this is the foundation block
to advancing my
career to portfolio
manager or even branch office manager.
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8. What will
it take to attain your goals, and what steps
have you taken toward attaining them?
Sample excellent
response:
I've 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 suessful in this
career?
Sample excellent
response:
I believe
suessful 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 don't
go to any extra
effort. Second, I think that if you label
suess as an attainable goal, you will
never consistently
remain suessful. You
can only sueed if you learn all there
is to learn about your product, your
petitors, and personal
selling. Since
this learning process is continuous, it's an
unattainable goal. With good reason,
salespeople should not
consider suess
an attainable ending point but an objective
that will always linger slightly beyond
their reach.
10. How do
you determine or evaluate suess? Give me an
example of one of your suessful
aomplishments.
Sample
excellent response:
Last
semester I was hired by by university's 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 didn't
know the first thing about how fill any
of those
responsibilities. I decided,
however, that I wasn't going
to fail.
Four months later, I have bee the Webmaster for
the group. I
also write our campus newsletter and created
Game Night, a student petition 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 suess in
your chosen career?
Sample excellent response:
I believe I have a bination of
qualities to be suessful
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
sueed and
excel, strong munication skills, and the ability
to work hard, are the most important
qualities that will
help me sueed in
this career. To sueed, you also need a
natural curiosity about how systems
work -- the kind of
curiosity I
demonstrated when I upgraded my two puters
recently. Technology is constantly
changing, so you must a
fast learner
just to keep up or you will be overwhelmed.
All of these
traits bine 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 suessful team member for your firm.
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12. What has been your most rewarding
aomplishment?
Sample
excellent response:
A
recent satisfying aomplishment I was sent to one
of our
branch banks that was notorious
for not growing their loan
base. The
branch had logged $$75,000 in new loans in an
18-
month period prior to my arrival.
Having a reputation as a
in
the solicitation and booking of $$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 wouldn't change
anything. All that I have done was a
great learning experience that I will
carry forward
throughout the rest of my
life.
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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 es with
working with people. The best thing
about working in a group is bining the
great minds from
different perspectives
and ing up with something extremely
great, pared with when you're working
alone. At the same
time, information
can generate vitality in the project
you're working on. No matter how many
heads you've got
together, without
information, you can't go very far. The
perfect situation would be a bination
of working with
information and people, and I'm
confident of my abilities
in both
areas.
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15. 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 college's 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
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 munication among group
members, and coordinated their energies
toward reaching our
team's 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 pensation would motivate me to achieve.
Although moary rewards are important to
me, I am driven to
sueed 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 pany
will make in hiring and
training you,
can you give us a reason to hire you?
Sample
excellent response:
I
sincerely believe that I'm 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 being the
very best I can
bee. I think my leadership awards from my
college, and my management positions
are the result of
possessing the
qualities you're looking for in an employee.
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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
munity 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 aomplished that.
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19. Describe what you've aomplished
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 aounts 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 consultant's time. I'd like
to make make the pany
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
pany's product offering, organizational
structure, and professional sales
techniques so that I may
bee 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 bee 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 Lynch's corporate structure.
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23. What do you see yourself doing in
ten years?
Sample
excellent response:
Ten
years from now I see myself as a suessful
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 petent systems analyst
and will represent my pany
in helping
others find solutions to their
information-
systems needs in a
professional and timely manner.