求职面试问答中的6大经典错误

    “我是工作狂。您让我做什么我就做什么。”你可能认为面试官希望听到你能每周七天每天24小时工作，但实际上，他可能在想，你是不是不知道如何安排工作任务的优先顺序？

    “他们一周得工作80个小时才能达到目标？或者说他们一周工作80个小时是不是因为他们在正常工作日没有效率？”珍妮特•马克思问道。“长时间工作是好事，但越来越多的公司希望聘用能够融入到团队的全面人才。”珍妮特•马克思是北卡罗来纳州夏洛特市德科公司的高级副总裁。

    “我的工作成果没有受到重视，所以我离开了那家公司。”要解释简历中的空白期，总是非常麻烦。但要记住，潜在的雇主可能会支持你的老东家。如果有面试官听到你的成果不被重视，她可能会想其中的原因。马克思说：“听到你说的话，潜在雇主会认为你并不擅长自己所做的工作。”

    “并不是因为我的老板跟我合不来……”我们都知道不要说前任雇主的坏话。但即便在为自己开脱的时候，试图用个性冲突或差劲的老板作为理由，你也可能陷入困境。

    马克思解释说：“如果你说：‘我的老板让工作变得非常难做，那里不是合适的工作环境，’这等于在告诉面试官，你无法很好地处理压力。有的人会坦白地说：‘他总是大喊大叫。’潜台词是你做了什么让他大喊大叫？你是没能完成任务吗？”

    相反，你可以用具体的例子来解释自己离开的原因。乌尔里克说：“更好的回答是：我是部门整合的牺牲品。我们部门原本有8个人，在两年之内被整合为一个4人团队。我的绩效非常优秀，我可以给你许多参考。”

    “我是善于团队合作的人。”这不仅是陈词滥调，而且对于某些面试官来说，你是在给他们敲响警钟：你可能无法做出个人的贡献。乌尔里克如果听到“我们”的次数太多，她的汗毛都会竖起来。

    她说：“很多时候，人们会从部门的成功中获益。但我还是想知道，你对团队做出了哪些贡献。你是团队领导者还是麻烦制造者？或者你做的是制作电子表格这样的枯燥工作？我需要知道你的具体职责。”

    “我希望能做出贡献。”当然了，许多人人进入一个领域是因为他们希望能产生影响。但到头来，我们都是在为了工资而工作。把你的贡献留给最喜欢的慈善活动吧。

    布朗听到这句话后，她会问：“对什么做贡献？每次我提出这个问题，他们都哑口无言。”（财富中文网）

    译者：刘进龙/汪皓

    "I'm a workaholic. I'll do whatever you want from me." You may think the interviewer wants to hear that you'll be devoted to the job 24-7, but he may actually be wondering whether you simply don't know how to prioritize your tasks.

    "Do they need to work 80 hours a week to hit their numbers, or are they working 80 hours a week because of their inability to be effective during the normal … workday?" asks Janette Marx, a senior vice president at Adecco in Charlotte, N.C. "Working all the time can be good, but more and more companies want well-rounded individuals that are part of the team."

    "My results weren't valued, so I left the company." It's always tricky to explain a gap in your resume. But remember that employers will identify with other employers. When an interviewer hears your results weren't valued, she will wonder why. "What you're saying to the employer is you were not good at what you did," Marx says.

    "It's not that my boss and I didn't get along ... " We all know never to badmouth a former employer. But even in trying to explain yourself by citing a personality conflict or bad boss, you can get into hot water.

    "If you say, 'My boss made it really tough, it wasn't the right working environment,' that tells the interviewer you can't deal with stress well. Some people flat out say, 'He was a yeller.' The subtext is what did you do to make him yell? Did you not hit your deliverable?" Marx explains.

    Instead, offer specific examples to support the reason you left. "The better response is: 'I was a casualty of a department in which eight people have turned over in two years in a team of four people. My performance is stellar, and I can give you plenty of references," Ullrich says.

    "I'm a team player." Not only is this a huge cliché, it raises an alarm with some interviewers that you may not be able to make an individual contribution. Ullrich's hackles go up when she hears "we" too often.

    "A lot of times people can ride on the coattails of the department," she says. "I still want to know what you contributed to that team. Were you the leader, troublemaker, doing the spreadsheets and grunt work? I need to know what your role was."

    "I'd like to make a contribution." Sure, many people go into a field because they want to make a difference. But in the end, we work to earn a salary. Save the contributions for your favorite charities.

    When Brown hears this line, she asks, "A contribution to what? I've asked that, and they can't justify it."