Question from my Hiknow student Vicky: Dear Joe, Soon I'll have a telephone interview with a headhunter. I am a little nervous about it, so I want to know if I should do some preparation for the interview and which aspects I must be careful about. Looking forward to your reply. Thanks! Answer: Great to hear you've got an interview. I've posted some links to useful job interview tips on my blog. However those aren't specifically for phone interviews. Here are a few useful lists for preparing for phone interviews:
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2013-10-31: Updated to replace broken links to Bing online dictionary. Deference or Confidence... or both? When researching for a class about the career ladder, I found an interesting blog post by Susan Adams on Forbes (a major US business magazine) about Asian-Americans in business titled: It was inspired by another, much longer (11 pages!) article by Wesley Yang in New York magazine titled:
These articles reminded me of another article I saw recently: Returning to the "Paper Tigers" article by Yang, the author's opinion is that: Children raised according to the principles of East Asian cultures (like China, Korea, Japan etc) will do very well in school grades and exams but they are at a disadvantage in the business world and later life in America (it might not be a problem if living in Asia), compared to those children raised according to the principles of American culture. He says that East Asian cultures value things like extensive academic learning and deference, while American culture values things like confidence, independence and socialization (Socialization is the process by which people, especially children, learn to how behave with others and become social and able to interact and socialize well with others). Why does that affect becoming a business leader in the US? Because in business you have to be able to network and sell yourself. Sometimes Asian-Americans are not as comfortable with that as non-Asian-Americans; sometimes non-Asian-Americans simply assume that Asian-Americans are not confident or independent or comfortable socializing. And so Asian-Americans, for whatever reason, miss out on opportunities to rise up the corporate ladder in America. Yang "cites one study showing that while Asian-Americans comprise about 5% of the U.S. population, they make up only 0.3% of corporate officers, fewer than 1% of board members and 2% of college presidents. There are just nine CEOs of Asian descent among the top 500 publicly traded companies." What do you think?
Or all these ideas simply wrong? Your comments appreciated. Many of my students have had the experience of facing job interview in English, even if the job is not in an English-speaking country. So here are few helpful links.
Update 2016-07-03: Added updated more Wikipedia links, more words and phrases, more examples, more vocab links, more podcasts.
There are a lot of phrases in English to talk about the end of a person's employment. But these phrases can have important differences in meaning.
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