在面试中你曾说过的最棒的话是什么？
What’s the best thing you have ever said in an interview?
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面试金句
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Keith Albert
I showed up to the interview dressed to the nines, post double shot latte, and mentally prepped only to be ushered to a hallway lined with chairs and a dozen other potential applicants already waiting their turn. I knew I needed something to make me stand out if I had any chance of securing the job.
When I was finally called up I walked into a nightmare. There were 6 tables in a U shape around a single chair in the middle of the room with 3-4 interviewers sitting at each of the tables. Someone pointed at the chair in the center and said, “Take a seat and tell us about yourself.”
As I took the seat I said, “Is this an interrogation, intervention or an interview?”
The room erupted in laughter.
Later, my boss (who was in the room) said that comment won me the job. According to her, it proved to the group that I could “speak publicly under pressure and still maintain an appropriate sense of humor.”
我穿着得体地出席了面试，喝了两杯拿铁咖啡，做好了心理准备，结果却被带到了一条两旁摆放着椅子的走廊，其他十几个工作申请人已经在等着被叫了。我知道如果我想获得这份工作，我需要一些让我脱颖而出的东西。
当我终于被召唤时，我好像走进了一场噩梦。 房间中间有 6 张 U 形桌子，围绕着一把椅子，每张桌子坐着 3-4 名面试官。 有人指着中间的椅子说：“请坐，介绍一下你自己。”
我坐下时说：“这是审讯、调解还是面试？”
房间里爆发出笑声。
后来，我的老板（当时她也在房间里）说我的这番话为我赢得了这份工作。 据她说，这向团队证明了我可以“在压力下公开发言，同时还能保持适当的幽默感”。
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Two things come to mind immediately.
One
Interviewer: “Why do you want to teach at a Catholic school?”
Me: “My high school counselor told me that this is where the big money is in teaching. I believe they may have been misinformed.”
(It’s funny because everyone here knows that Catholic school teachers make much less than their public school counterparts.)
我立刻想到了两件事。
一
采访者：“你为什么想在天主教学校教书？”
我：“我的高中辅导员告诉我，这就是教学能赚大钱的地方。 我相信他们可能被误导了。”（这很有趣，因为这里的每个人都知道天主教学校的老师比公立学校的老师赚得少得多。）
It was a 95-degree summer day, and I was interviewing for a teaching position at a high school. I was being interviewed by a group of five people. I walked into the room with my sport coat in my hand and, before anyone said anything, I held it out and said, “It’s too hot to wear this thing. I just brought it in to prove I own one.”
二
那是一个酷热的夏日，我正在面试一所高中的教职人员。我正在接受五个人的采访。我手里拿着运动外套走进房间，没人说什么，我就把它拿出来说：“这天穿这件衣服太热了。 我把它带来，只是证明我有一个（外套）。”
他们都笑了，紧张的气氛被打破了。
“I’m not going to lie, yes I have stolen before.”
I was interviewing for a seasonal position at Home Depot with the store manager. The interview was going well, but he seemed to be quite serious so when the opportunity to hopefully lighten the mood presented itself, I took it.
“Have you ever stolen anything?”
“I’m not going to lie, yes I have stolen before.”
The look on his face turned to utter disgust and disappointment. I thought for a second I had blown it.
“May I ask why?”
“Honestly, I can’t remember. I actually can't even recall stealing, but I know I did because I remember very vividly the moment my Mom made me go back into the store, hand the pack of balloons to the manager and apologize to him for stealing them. I was only 3 years old but I definitely learned my lesson, I haven't stolen anything since.”
He roared with laughter and said that was the best, and most honest thing he had ever heard in a job interview.
I walked out of there with the job.
“我不会撒谎，是的，我以前偷过东西。”
我正在通过商店经理面试 Home Depot 的季节性职位。面试进行得很顺利，但他似乎很严肃，所以当有希望缓和气氛的机会出现时，我就这么做了。
“你有没有偷过东西？”
“我不会撒谎，是的，我以前偷过东西。”
他脸上的表情变成了彻底的厌恶和失望。 我思考了一秒钟，认为我把面试搞砸了。
“请问为什么？”
“老实说，我不记得了。 事实上，我甚至不记得偷过什么。但我知道我偷过，因为我记得非常清楚，那一刻我妈妈让我回到商店，把一包气球交给经理，并为偷了它们向他道歉。 我只有 3 岁，但我确实吸取了教训，从那以后我再也没有偷过任何东西。”
他大笑起来，说这是他在求职面试中听到的最好、最诚实的话。
我离开的时候，也找到了工作。
Originally Answered: What’s the best thing you said in an interview?
You know that bullshit question, ‘What’s your biggest weakness’?
You’re always supposed to answer with something like, “I work too hard” or, “I’m a perfectionist”.
I was on a bit of a long job-hunt, and had been to a few dozen interviews. I was getting tired, I was getting stressed.
The interviewer rolled this out, and I figured, fuck it - let’s give it a whirl.
I said, “I can’t watch my fucking mouth”.
I got the job.
你知道那个废话问题，“你最大的弱点是什么”？
你总是应该用诸如“我工作太努力”或“我是一个完美主义者”之类的话来回答。
我找工作的时间有点长，参加了几十次面试。 我越来越累，我越来越紧张。
面试官说出了这个问题，我想，他妈的，让我们试一试。
我说，“我他妈的不能看住我的嘴”。
我得到了这份工作。
I was once on an interview and asked a very common question:
“How do you handle confidential information?”
I answered, “I’m sorry. I can’t answer that.”
They laughed and I was hired. They told me that it was that comment was what got me the job. I worked there for five years.
我曾经在面试中被问了一个很常见的问题：
“你如何处理机密信息？”
我回答说：“对不起。 我无法回答这个问题。”
他们笑了，我最终被录用了。 他们告诉我正是这一回答让我得到了这份工作。
我在那里工作了五年。
Panel of six people from the hiring committee were sitting across from me.
Towards the end of the interview, one of them asked me, “Why do you want to work for this company?”.
“Why not?!”
The panel was dazed by my answer.
Another person from the panel proceeds to ask me “I don't think you understand. We want to know why you want to work for this company so that we can gauge whether or not you're a good fit for us.”.
“Yeah, and again, why not?!”
Still dazed, the assistant head of the hiring committee says “Ok, that is all. Thank you. We will contact you if we decide to bring you….”
“You’re hired. You start next Monday.”
A year and a half after and two promotions later, I walked into my mentor’s office and asked, “Why me?”
With a grin on her face she says…
“Why not?”
招聘委员会的六人小组坐在我对面。
面试快结束时，其中一位问我，“你为什么想为这家公司工作？”。
“为什么不？！”
小组被我的回答弄糊涂了。
小组中的另一个人继续问我“我认为你不明白。 我们想知道你为什么想为这家公司工作，以便我们衡量你是否适合我们。”。
“是啊，我也再说一次，为什么不呢？！”
仍然茫然，招聘委员会的副主任说：“好吧，就这样。 谢谢你。 如果我们决定录用你，我们会联系你……”
“你被录取了。 你下周一开始。”
经过一年半两次晋升之后，我走进导师的办公室并问道：“为什么是我？”
她脸上带着笑容说……
“为什么不呢？”
Originally Answered: What’s the best thing you said in an interview?
Two years ago I was in a visa interview at the embassy. He was a young man who had already rejected 4 members before me and I was not sure I would succeed. He started asking me several questions, apparently in which he was not convinced, and then his last question was:
“Is that your Dad’s tie?”
My reply: “Yes, it’s a sentiment — it always brought my dad good luck and I believe it would do the same for me.”
That’s it. He smiled and his next words were the golden words:
“Have a nice stay.”
I told him that answer because I had observed him all the time when he was interviewing, he had worn an old watch and when he was typing something on his computer or when his phone got a notification or something and the screen lit up, I had seen an older man’s photo, clearly resembling him with the beard and the nose, which made me realize that this guy had lost his dad or he had a big love for dads.
两年前，我在大使馆接受签证面谈。面试官是一个年轻人，在我之前已经拒绝了4名成员，我不确定我是否会成功。他开始问我了几个问题，显然他不全然信任我，然后他的最后一个问题是：
“那是你爸爸的领带吗？”
我的回答是：“是的，这是一种情怀——它总能给我爸爸带来好运，我相信它也会给我带来好运。”
就这样。 他笑了笑，接下来的话就是金句：
“旅行愉快。”
我之所以告诉他这个答案，是因为我一直在观察他。他在面试时一直戴着一块旧手表，当他在电脑上打字时，或者当他的手机收到通知之类的东西并且屏幕亮起时，我（仿佛）看到一个老男人的照片，胡子鼻子都跟他一模一样，这让我意识到这家伙已经失去了他的父亲，而他对父亲的爱很深。