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Wu You: Welcome to education today. I am Wu You. First of all, for students looking for jobs, face to face interview is a first important step. One of our listeners called Xin Xiaoyao sent us a message, said “I have a job interview after a few days. I’m so nervous. I really hope that I can pass and I wish to improve my English before the job interview.” So today our topic is English job interview.
Wu You: And part one English self-introduction. For this, I talked with David Moser, Academic Director at Capital Normal University. He’s also the judge for several English competitions here in Beijing. So good morning, David!
Wu You: Okay! So first of all, how to greet in English, like “hello” or “my name is bla” and start to say something very short about himself?
David Moser: Okay! Well, first of all, you have to be very good at X, the space and the personal interaction. So, of course, if you’re meeting someone to the first time, you want to shake the hand, look them in the eye, and smile and the body language is almost more important than what you actually say because the first impression of the person is more of the body language and their attitude. So, smile, try to look relaxed, and then so what you say that’s the simpler the better. There is something you can sort of rehearse for greeting which is “hello, I’m very pleased to meet you” or “very nice to meet you”, “I’m very happy to be here”, “it’s nice to make your acquaintance”. Just memorize maybe one of those phrases, so that you will have it ready at hand. And then, to describe yourself, is best to start out with your name and where you’re from. So, if you are from a certain university or you are certain from a certain work unit. And then, very briefly just your job title, what you do there. I think it’s better to keep that short and let them ask you questions from there rather than. Don’t say too much in the self-introduction.
Wu You: How to better give a short English description about one’s background?
David Moser: The main thing is, you know, in Chinese you have the expression, you know, “少废话“. The interviewer does not want any“废话”, doesn’t want any unnecessary talk or any extraneous information. I think the best thing to do is sort of prepare in your mind, sort of bullet point, you know, point number one, point number two, just very briefly what your background is, what your qualifications are, what your current job is. And since you probably would know what exact the type of organization or company that you are interviewing for, it’s best to use examples or use information that’s X related to the job. So another word, you may have a lot of interesting experience but it’s not related to the job you are applying for. You can maybe not mention it or don’t talk about it so much, but stress those things that the employer on the perspective and the interviewer is going to be interested in. So, I think that’s the main thing. And once again, no “废话”. Don’t give a long explanation, just be very clear. And remember they are interested in finding more about you. So, if you give them a little bit information, if they want to know more, they will ask you. So, let them ask you questions rather than give too much information.
Wu You: To make your self-introduction to be relevant to the position that they are applying to…
David Moser: Right! Relevant and short! I would add the word “short”. Relevant and short!
Wu You: So how to better describe one’s previous experience?
David Moser: Well, of course a lot depends on what that experience is and how you would explain it, but I think probably it’s best to explain those aspects of your personality and your experience that you hope to be able to use in the job. And that means that you actually should try to spend your time talking more about what you are interested in and what you found interesting or what you found useful in the job. So, concentrate on those jobs that you feel you did a good job at, describe those abilities, those duties that you think that you did a good job during, and that you could do well in the company that you are applying for because that’s another way of giving them some ideas what you think your strong points are. So don’t strive for completeness, to be absolutely complete, to tell them everything you did. Instead, concentrate on those few things that you think you did well, or you want to keep doing and expand on. That’s very important because they need to know also, you know, some more specific about what good you can provide to the company. So don’t worry about do I have to conclude every single thing I did. Instead you’ll say what do I do well and concentrate on that.
Wu You: Okay. So is it necessary to show enthusiasm to the position that they’re applying to and how to do that?
David Moser:Well I’ll put that very crucial because it’s if the potential employer sees that you don’t seem very interested or if they feel that you are merely going to many, many different interviews, looking for something and this is just yet another one, then that’ll be very X, very uninteresting to them because they feel like you’re not really interested in their company and you are really just kind of exercise. I think that’s very easy to do that in certain ways so I think it’s very important that you do your homework before the interview. And what I mean by that is, you try to learn something more about the company before you do the interview so that you are able to actually mention something, you know if they have a certain department, you might say I was very interested to find out that you also do this for the work and I used to do that and I find that very interesting and I
