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Career Planning & Job Interview

This comprehensive guide covers starting questions, career planning strategies, sample conversations, useful vocabulary, key interviewing elements, and reference questions. Find insights and tips to excel in job interviews and navigate career planning effectively.

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Career Planning & Job Interview

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  1. Career Planning & Job Interview By Christine Hsieh

  2. Outline • Starting Questions • Career Planning • Sample Conversation: Career Planning • Useful Vocabulary & Expressions • Key Elements for Successful Interview • Reference

  3. Basic Questions for Job Interview: Example (Interviewer: Miranda; Interviewee: Andy) Miranda: Who are you? Andy: My name is Andy Barnes. I recently graduated from.. Miranda: What was your major? Andy: English, with an emphasis in journalism. Miranda: Why are you here? Andy: Because I think I could do a good job as your assistant and.. Miranda: Why are you here? Andy: My resume got me a meeting with Human Resources and they said it’s this or Auto Universe. Miranda: You don’t read Runway, do you? Andy: No. Miranda: And before today, you have never heard of me, had you? Andy: No. Miranda: And you have no style or sense of fashion. Andy: That depends on… Miranda: That’s wasn’t a question. Andy: I also won a nationwide competition for college journalists with my series on the janitor’s union. Miranda: That’s all. Quoted from The Devil Wears Prada (pp. 9-10) http://www.dailyscript.com/scripts/devil_wears_prada.pdf

  4. Career Planning Career planning is key to your job hunting. • How much do you know about yourself? • For the job you want, do you know what is expected from you?

  5. Conversation Practice (Laura and Emma are chatting.) L: What do you want to do after graduation? A: When I was a kid, I always wanted to be an athletic because I loved PE classes so much. L: Did you? Why then are you a computer science major now? A: Well, when I was to sign up for a university, my teacher told me to make my own career planning. L: Career planning? A: That is to know who we are, and what we want to do in the future. L: Something like planning our future according ourpersonality? A: You are right. And after some tests, I realized that I am good at computer and I am obsessed with it. I’d be happy if I can work with computers in the future. That’s the story. L: So you may become an engineer someday? A: I hope so. L: I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you. A: Thanks. That’s very nice of you.

  6. major 主修 journalism 新聞學/新聞寫作 assistant 助理 resume 履歷 Human Resources 人力資源 nationwide 全國性 sense of fashion 時尚感/瞭解時尚 career planning 生涯規劃 PE class (physical education) 體育課 athletic 運動員 sign up for報名/填志願 personality 人格特質 computer science 資訊工程 to be obsessed with…對..著迷 engineer 工程師 keep fingers crossed(for someone) … (為某人)祈禱好運 Useful Vocabularies& Expressions

  7. Key Elements for Successful Interview • First impression 第一印象 1. appearance 外在 2. manners 談吐舉止 • Resume 履歷表 1. format 格式 2. content 內容 • Doing some research on the company you are applying for

  8. Reference • Job Interview • The Devil Wears Prada

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