TED英语演讲：找工作面试为什么过不去

TED英语演讲：找工作面试为什么过不去别总为自己面试失败找各种理由和借口了，在回复面试官提出的各种刁钻问题时，你真的能对答如流吗?还是稳一些，先结合自己的真实情况去选择面试吧。下面是小编为大家收集关于TED英语演讲：找工作面试为什么过不去，欢迎借鉴参考。

找工作面试为什么过不去

演讲者：Regina Hartley

Your company launches a search for an open position. The applications start rolling in, and the qualified candidates are identified. Now the choosing begins. Person A: Ivy League, 4.0, flawless resume, great recommendations. All the right stuff. Person B: state school, fair amount of job hopping, and odd jobs like cashier and singing waitress. But remember -- both are qualified. So I ask you: who are you going to pick?

你的公司发布了一个公开招聘的职位。申请表开始滚滚而来，合格的候选人已被挑选出来。现在开始挑选。候选人A：常春藤盟校，绩点4.0，完美的履历，出色的推荐信。所有好的要素都具备。候选人B：公立学校毕业，碾转于各种工作之间，甚至包括做收银员和唱歌的服务生。不过请记得——两位都是符合要求的。所以，我要问问你们：你们会选择哪一位?

My colleagues and I created very official terms to describe

two distinct categories of candidates. We call A "the Silver Spoon," the one who clearly had advantages and was destined for success. And we call B "the Scrapper," the one who had to fight against tremendous odds to get to the same point. You just heard a human resources director refer to people as Silver Spoons and Scrappers --

我和我的同事发明了一些非常正式的术语，来描述这两个不同类别的候选人。我们把 A 称为“含着金钥匙(直译为‘银汤匙’)的人”，一个明显具有优势，而且注定会成功的人。我们把 B 称为“拳击手”，必须努力冲破重重难关才能实现同样的目标。你们刚刚听到了一个人力资源总监将应聘者比作银汤匙和拳击手——

which is not exactly politically correct and sounds a bit judgmental. But before my human resources certification gets revoked --let me explain.

这听起来在政治上不太正确，而且还有些武断。但在我的人力资源证书被吊销前——让我来解释一下。

A resume tells a story. And over the years, I've learned something about people whose experiences read like a patchwork quilt, that makes me stop and fully consider them before tossing their resumes away. A series of odd jobs may indicate inconsistency, lack of focus, unpredictability. Or it may signal a committed struggle against obstacles. At the very

least, the Scrapper deserves an interview.

一份简历讲述了一个故事。过去的那些年，我了解到那些经历好似拼布床单的人，会让我在把他们的简历扔掉前会停下来认真地考虑一下他们。一系列杂乱的工作可能意味着易变，不专心，难以捉摸。或者，它可能标志着努力挣扎跨越障碍。至少，“拳击手”应该得到一次面试机会。

To be clear, I don't hold anything against the Silver Spoon; getting into and graduating from an elite university takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice. But if your whole life has been engineered toward success,how will you handle the tough times? One person I hired felt that because he attended an elite university,there were certain assignments that were beneath him, like temporarily doing manual labor to better understand an operation. Eventually, he quit. But on the flip side, what happens when your whole life is destined for failure and you actually succeed?

不过我要强调一下，我并不排斥“银汤匙”;能够被精英大学录取并顺利毕业，同样需要付出很多心血和牺牲。但是，如果你的一生都被设计为走向成功，你要如何应对困难的时刻呢?一位我曾经雇用过的人认为，因为他毕业于精英大学，某些类型的工作对他而言是低下的，比如短时间从事体力劳动以更好地了解公司运作。最终，他离开了。但是，另一方面，如果你的人生注定失败，而你却成功了，这