“最佳雇主”求职亲历

    职务：二手车销售部负责人

    任职公司：梅赛德斯奔驰美国公司

    莱恩•布朗宁加入梅赛德斯奔驰（Mercedes-Benz, USA）的过程可谓一波三折，历尽了千辛万苦。进入这家公司工作一直是他的梦想。

    他说：“这还得追溯到我童年时的梦想。我每年都去看车展。当时我梦想中的汽车是500SL。梅赛德斯奔驰是一家伟大的公司，这种想法深深镌刻在我脑海里。”

    布朗宁长大成人后，曾在和平部队工作过三年，主要在布基纳法索和塞内加尔提供财务顾问服务。之后他报名参加了杜克大学（Duke University）的MBA课程。

    2007年，梅赛德斯奔驰美国公司派代表参加了一年一度的全美黑人MBA大会。布朗宁也参加了会议，并向该公司代表们介绍了自己，其中包括米凯拉•索尔维诺。他希望能获得一次实习机会，但米凯拉说当时还没有这样的机会。在第二年的大会上，布朗宁又遭遇了相同的情况。当年晚些时候，梅赛德斯奔驰的代表来到杜克大学。布朗宁遇到了索尔维诺，并认出了她；他说他记得她姓名中的大写字母。

    这给她留下了深刻印象。他对索尔维诺说：“似乎每次见到您，一切都还是老样子，没有任何变化。”但这一次不一样了，梅赛德斯奔驰启动了一个项目，为不同商业领域精心挑选的几个人提供培训。布朗宁也提交了申请。

    先是申请，然后经过一次电话筛选，一次人格分析，最后是智商测试，布朗宁获邀参加最终面试。当时，他正在巴黎学习，在商学院已经完成了两年的学业。公司可以报销候选人参加面试的国内机票，但却没有针对国际航班的预算，因此布朗宁不得忍痛自己承担了返回美国的费用，参加最终的筛选。

    后来，他完成了在巴黎的学业。等他回到家时，便收到了梅赛德斯奔驰的工作邀请。“从2007年的招聘会，到最终得到工作机会。经过之前的种种，那一刻我真的非常高兴。”

    布朗宁说，SL500依然是他的“初恋”，不过带有复古式鸥翼形车门的2013款梅赛德斯奔驰SLS或许会成为他的新宠。

    Title: Pre-Owned Sales Department Supervisor

    Company: Mercedes-Benz, USA

    Ryan Browning basically had to bring back the Golden Fleece to land his job at Mercedes-Benz. But he had wanted to work there for a long time.

    "It all goes back to my boyhood dream," he says. "I went to car shows every year. My dream car at the time was a 500SL. It just cemented in my mind, okay, Mercedes-Benz is a great company."

    Fast-forward to Browning as an adult. After working in the Peace Corps for three years, doing financial advising in Burkina Faso and Senegal, Browning entered an MBA program at Duke University.

    In 2007, Mercedes-Benz USA brought representatives to the annual National Black MBA Conference, which Browning attended. He introduced himself to the company's representatives, one of which was Michaela Sorvino, about an internship, but she said there wasn't one available. The same thing happened at the conference the next year. Later that year, the Mercedes reps came to Duke. Browning walked up to Sorvino and recognized her; he said he remembered her initials.

    She was impressed. "I was like, every time I see you, there's nothing going on," he told Sorvino. But this time was different. Mercedes Benz had just started a program to train a select few in various parts of the business. Browning applied.

    One application, a phone screen, a personality profile, and an IQ test later, Browning was invited for a final interview. He was studying in Paris at the time, completing his second year at business school. The company flew candidates in for the interview, but didn't have the budget to pay for an international flight, so Browning bit the bullet and paid his own way back to the U.S. for the final stage of the process.

    He finished his coursework in Paris, and when he returned home, there was a job offer waiting for him. "After going through all that -- a career fair back in 2007, to actually getting an offer, that was a very happy moment."

    Browning still appreciates his first love, the SL500, he says, although the 2013 Mercedes-Benz SLS with retro gullwing doors is probably his new favorite car.