The most important thing to find out when you interview someone is if you like the person. You can teach someone to be competent in the skills you need, but you can’t teach someone to have an appealing personality. No matter what the person talks about for thirty minutes--really, much fewer than thirty--you can figure out if you like them.
1. Learn how to conduct an interview.
You need to understand what is driving the interviewer and how he or she is thinking. So know enough about the interview process to put yourself in your counterpart’s shoes. If the person is bad at interviewing, you can run the show. If the person is good, you have to figure out how to meet their agenda, make your points, and still be likeable.
2. Learn from other people’s mistakes.
The best way to see people making errors in interviews is to interview them yourself. But yo
A. to figure out whether you like the person or not
B. to teach the person needed skills
C. to teach the person to have a lovable personality.
The most important thing to find out when you interview someone is if you like the person. You can teach someone to be competent in the skills you need, but you can’t teach someone to have an appealing personality. No matter what the person talks about for thirty minutes--really, much fewer than thirty--you can figure out if you like them.
1. Learn how to conduct an interview.
You need to understand what is driving the interviewer and how he or she is thinking. So know enough about the interview process to put yourself in your counterpart’s shoes. If the person is bad at interviewing, you can run the show. If the person is good, you have to figure out how to meet their agenda, make your points, and still be likeable.
2. Learn from other people’s mistakes.
The best way to see people making errors in interviews is to interview them yourself. But yo
A. one should learn how to be likeable during the process.
B. an interviewee should know the process of an interview
C. the person needs to figure out how to control the pace of the interview.
Most famous people have some unusual
story associated with their names. Casanova, for example, was a legend in his
own time. He was the epitome of the gallant adventurer and lover. However, he
spent thirteen years of his life as a librarian! Thomas Edison, the brilliant inventor, was deaf from the age of twelve. The young Edison’s hearing loss was long believed to have been caused when he tried to catch a moving train and a conductor grabbed him by the ears to pull him on board. Edison himself liked to tell this story. No one is really sure how he did lose his hearing. Great writers and artists often require various types of inspirational warm-up before they create. Rudyard Kipling could not write unless his pen was filled with black ink, and only black ink. Ludwig van Beethoven poured icy cold water over his head before he A. scientists B. personalities C. composers D. leaders [单项选择]Passage Five
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