Interview Skills: A few minutes will determine your chances of success.

Interview skills: How many minutes will determine your chances of success? One minute on stage and ten years off stage? The interview is like the ultimate embodiment of this sentence. Just a few minutes reflects more than ten years of hard work and determines your future destiny. It sounds cruel, but from another perspective, should you also be grateful? Because opportunities always belong to those who are ready. As long as you make preparations in all aspects in advance before the interview and learn to speak with strength, you can successfully find the starting point and direction of career development.

Planning: The sooner the better

Anyone who has been in the workplace knows that students who can stand out in the interview are outstanding not only in their pleasing transcripts or in the positive actions of various activities inside and outside the school, but also in that they start to do everything for their job interviews four years later from the first day of entering colleges and universities, or even earlier.

Zhang Yunhui, an undergraduate majoring in accounting from Guanghua School of Management, Peking University, started her senior year less than two months ago? On November 19th, while others were still rushing about for job interviews, he had got the offer from Boston Consulting Group with ease.

Good luck only patronizes prepared minds. Many people think about what industry to take as the starting point of their career development, which companies are the best job-hunting targets, and whether their abilities are compatible with enterprises, but Zhang Yunhui's thinking is four years ahead of schedule. In his freshman semester, he decided to enter a consulting company as the starting point of his future career. In his sophomore year, he began to work as an intern in China Construction Bank and Bain Consulting Company. After I had Bain's internship background, I didn't practice again, because Bain's experience can help me find a top consulting company. ? Next, Zhang Yunhui put more energy into the activities of international exchange programs, and his already top-notch English became more and more comfortable. As for which companies in the consulting industry are top5 companies, what are their characteristics, how to submit resumes, how to prepare interview questions, and what problems should be paid attention to in case interviews? For such questions, Zhang Yunhui has accumulated a lot of tips and experiences in BBS of Peking University and Tsinghua, as well as in chatting with her brothers and friends.

Such specific career planning is more prominent among MBA students, and many business schools offer targeted career planning courses every semester. Xiang Li, an MBA student from Tsinghua University Institute of Economics and Management, told the author that once she entered the school, the MBA Career Development Center helped her understand her personality and interests deeply through evaluation tools, and set her career goals for marketing. Therefore, whenever Tsinghua alumni send the recruitment information and career development materials of marketing positions, the Career Development Center will always transfer them to Xiang Li at the first time. During the summer vacation, Danaher Marketing Department, a top 5 company, recruited interns, and the center recommended Xiang Li. In the past two years, Xiang Li has successfully entered the marketing department of Schneider Electric Appliances with his working background in IT industry, and has approached his dream step by step.

background: the more, the better

although enterprises don't expect students who have not left school to have rich work experience, graduates don't think so. They always try their best to enrich their resumes: excellent academic performance, president of student union, head of press corps, community leaders, international exchange students, internships and part-time experiences of famous foreign companies?

The book "1 things your boss wants you to learn in college" points out that a good average score reflects to what extent you understand what the professor wants you to learn and show it. To some extent, meeting the standards of a professor is similar to pleasing your boss. Excellent academic performance not only means a solid professional foundation and exemplary performance during school, but also reflects whether you are smart enough, know how to adapt to the rules of the game and play well.

Ricky, a master of Beijing Institute of Technology, was praised as? Asia's largest arms dealer? When he was in a state-owned enterprise, apart from the experience of the President of the Student Union and representing the school in the debate competition in colleges and universities, he helped him get excellent scholarship results and published professional papers, including academic performances such as applying for copyright in a national defense scientific research project, which also brought him a lot of appreciation from enterprises. If you can't even do your familiar major well, how can an enterprise believe that you will make great achievements in other unfamiliar fields? ?

In addition, a rich background can also help you win more time to communicate with the interviewer. Jin Ling, an accounting major in Peking University, was once the vice-chairman of the Student Union of the College, founded the press corps of the school, and worked as an intern and part-time worker in Deloitte, Microsoft, BCG and Beijing Hyundai. These experiences are often mentioned in interviews. Because of her diverse background experience, she got five offer from GE Sales Department, Johnson & Johnson Marketing Department, Planning and Finance Department of Ministry of Commerce, Bibo Consulting Company and Minsheng Bank when she graduated, which has more development opportunities than others.

Preparation: The more detailed the better

Graduates are more and more aware of what they are going to prepare for the interview. Among all the preparations, the most important thing is to prepare answers to the interviewer's questions. The first is to recite your resume. Self-introduction is almost a necessary course for all interviews, but there are only a few major events in the four-year university system. Just sort out every detail in your mind and speak it fluently. ? Memorizing resumes is nothing to Jin Ling, who laughs that the real interview preparation of Peking University students has gone through Procter & Gamble? Interview training? .

almost every year, P&G is the first multinational company to recruit in colleges and universities, and all students will regard it as a mobile phone practice meeting to familiarize themselves with the interview process. First, resume screening, online personality test, then written math and English test, followed by standardized oral English test, and finally two rounds of interviews; P&G has eight or nine interview questions, which are open to all students in advance. Covering all aspects of college students' life, preparing P&G's questions is equivalent to preparing for interviews in other enterprises. ?

The interviewer of Procter & Gamble Company is famous for being as meticulous as possible. Jin Ling recalled the scene of that day and said:? It's torture! He can catch anything on your resume and get to the bottom of it endlessly. For example, he asked me to talk about an example of showing leadership. I talked about the experience of setting up a press corps. Next, he would ask, under what circumstances, why, what difficulties did you encounter in this process, how did you convince your teachers, what support did you get, what was the official support, what unofficial support was there, how many people participated, and what was the effect? For the average applicant, no matter how to prepare, I'm afraid I can only prepare for the first two layers. ?

Cai Yiqing, the HR manager of Suntory Meilin, said that she often deliberately disturbed the candidates' prepared ideas in interviews and asked some impromptu questions. For example, when interviewing a marketing clerk, she asked the other person: Have you heard of Suntory's drinks? What do you like to drink? If the company stipulates that you must drink the company's drinks within three years, will you? How to spend your spare time? Right "Da? What do you think of the film The Finch Code? ? These questions are impromptu, and there are no standard evaluation answers, just to get a deeper understanding of the candidates. At the same time, the work of the marketing department requires the candidates to be sensitive to the latest information and things and keep up with the fashion trends. ? At this time, I am afraid that what needs to be prepared is not only the question itself, but the interviewer's assessment ideas.

A candidate's thinking ability is the key point of the interview for consulting companies and investment companies. Zhang Yunhui, who wanted to enter the consulting company, spent five months to understand the company characteristics, business operation, internal situation, culture and employment concept of the job target. ? There are great differences between different consulting companies? The job of preparing for the interview is even more complicated. Even if it is a routine question for 5 minutes, Zhang Yunhui will repeatedly speculate and simulate with friends. Without MBA training, he spent 5% of his time on the practice of case analysis.

Hua Bing, who is now a consultant of Hanergy Investment Company, had five years' industrial background in IT system integration, Internet and e-commerce before attending Tsinghua University MBA. His goal is to enter an investment company. A year ago, after he received an email from Hanergy Investment Company to recruit interns, he went online to Google all the information of this investment company. Including the company's website, related major projects, public speeches and speeches by the chairman, it is particularly good that Hanergy's company website has detailed information of each senior consultant, educational background, work experience, projects involved, etc. ? So-called? Know yourself and know yourself, and fight every battle? Long-term attention to investment companies and the ability to analyze MBA cases have made Hua Bing have a good idea of the interview, especially after he knows the background of the interviewer like the back of his hand. Basically, after a few words, I already know who is sitting in front of me. The last round was the interview of the chairman. He talked about many personal ideas about industry development and enterprise strategy, which I have seen in his speech materials. ?

this year, huabing is responsible for recruiting a new round of interns. In the MBA I interviewed, few people were particularly familiar with the company. Of the many younger brothers in Tsinghua who knew that I worked here, only two had taken the initiative to call to learn about Hanergy. ?

With regard to dress etiquette during the interview, Dong Ping, a career consultant at the Career Development Center of Tsinghua University University of Economics and Management, pointed out that MBA vocational training usually advises students to find an opportunity to look around the enterprise before the interview to learn about the employees' dress style, speaking habits, cultural atmosphere, etc., and try their best to behave like internal employees during the interview. If this is the enterprise you desire, you can't be too prepared. ? ;