帮你顺利拿下面试的绝招

 Four Steps to a Better Job Interview实现更完美面试的4个步骤Here's a question I often hear: What are some things I can do to prepare for a job interview?

我经常听到有人这样问：我需要为面试做些什么准备呢？

Answer: There really aren't too many things in life more awkward¹ than a job interview. You're dressed in formal business clothing, sitting across from a stranger. This stranger has the right to ask you anything from the most elaborate to the most mundane² questions. And you have to spend an hour talking about nothing but yourself. Actually it sounds pretty similar to a blind date!

答案：生活中确实没有多少比面试更让人为难的事情了。你要穿正规的职业装、坐在一个陌生人面前。而这位陌生人有权利问你任何问题，从最细节的问题到最平凡的问题。并且，你要用一个小时的时间来谈谈你自己。实际上面试的感觉就跟相亲差不多。

Just like a blind date, there are something you need to avoid and something you need to do if you want to make it to the next level.

和相亲一样，如果你想进入下一阶段的话，在面试中有些事能做、有些事是要避免的。

1. Don't try to outwit or outguess the interviewer.

不要试图欺瞒面试官或者和面试官斗智斗勇Most candidates go into a job interview thinking it's a contest where the goal is to defeat the interviewer in some type of battle of wits.

很多参加面试的求职者都认为面试是一种竞争，而最终目的就是用某种巧智赢过面试官。

"Aha, Brad has asked me this question. Clearly, that is some type of trick question. I just don't know what the trick is yet. Here's how I would normally answer the question, but instead I should say what he probably wants to hear."“啊，布拉德问过我这个问题。很明显，这个问题有点诡异。我只是还不知道是哪里诡异。通常情况下我会这样回答这个问题，但是在这里我要说出的则是他想听到的答案。”

That thinking is when good interviews go bad. Sit back, relax, and pretend it is a conversation with a friend.

这样的想法会搞砸一次不错的面试。面试时，你只需要坐直了，放松，然后将这次面试当成一次和朋友的对话。

2. Read the job description.

阅读工作要求I call the job description the "cheat sheet" for the interview. Chances are the items listed on the job description will come up in the interview. For instance, if the job description says, "looking for creative problem-solvers" one of the questions you will receive is, "Give me an example of when you creatively solved a problem."我称工作要求为面试的“备忘录”。在工作要求中列出的每一项都会在面试中谈到。比如说，如果在工作要求中声明“要求有创意的问题解决者”，那么在面试中你可能会被问到的问题之一就会是“举个实例说明你曾经是如何有创意地解决了一个难题吧。”

1 awkward   

adj.笨拙的，尴尬的，使用不便的，难处理的

参考例句：

• John is so shy and awkward that everyone notices him.约翰如此害羞狼狈，以至于大家都注意到了他。
• I was the only man among the guests and felt rather awkward.作为客人中的唯一男性，我有些窘迫。

2 mundane   

adj.平凡的；尘世的；宇宙的

参考例句：

• I hope I can get an interesting job and not something mundane.我希望我可以得到的是一份有趣的工作，而不是一份平凡无奇的。
• I find it humorous sometimes that even the most mundane occurrences can have an impact on our awareness.我发现生活有时挺诙谐的，即使是最平凡的事情也能影响我们的感知。