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在英国找工作是比较富有挑战性。当我上个月毕业的时候，我就下定决心在这里找一份工作，首先需要ＣＶ，我从微软的网站上下载了一些个人简历模版，然后根据自己的情况更改，但是要突出自己的特点，对于所要应聘的职位，根据不同的要求写出不同突出重点地简历，我是学游戏制作的，我在国内没有任何游戏制作方面的经验，所以我的第一页就写了我在英国学习的课程和所拿到的分数。这样可以让他们知道我已经学到了有关游戏制作方面的课程。
另一个重要的是ｃｏｖｅｒ ｌｅｔｔｅｒ，这甚至比简历更重要，因为他们首先看到的是ｃｏｖｅｒ ｌｅｔｔｅｒ，所以一定要抓住他们的吸引力。不要和其他人写的一样，要有自己的语言，表明自己的热情，表明自己的动机，一般阅读一份ｃｏｖｅｒ ｌｅｔｔｅｒ的时间不会超过１０秒，差不多６，７秒，如果在这时间内你没有让他们感兴趣，那么你的申请就会丢进垃圾箱。
对于我申请的职位还需要演示程序，我把我的演示程序和个人简历电子板制作成一张光碟，这样方便他们的阅览。准备好后你可以直接发给所申请的公司，你也可以找工作代理，好的工作代理是非常有效率的。并且这里的工作代理是免费的，如果工作代理帮你找到了工作，录用你的公司会给他们报酬的。
我寄了有４０多份申请，其中有一半都回绝了我，我是从我的中介那里我的第一面试通知，我的面试分成３个部分，第一部分是技术测试，大概有１５道题，５道题关于数学物理，５道题关于图形技术，５道题关于编程语言。然后还有一些个人问题关于如何找到这家公司，为什么离开现在的职位，你所遇到的最大的困难是什么等等。
第二部分就是与技术经理的面试。他提问的问题大概分以下几部分。
- Warm-up Questions
- Work history
- Job performance
- Education
- Career goals
- Self-assessment
- Creativity
- Decisiveness
- Range of interests
- Work standards
- Leadership
- Flexibility
- Self-development
每部分的问题如下：
Warm-up Questions
- What made you apply for this particular position?
- Briefly, would you summarize your work history & education for me?
Work history
- Can you describe for me one or two of your most important accomplishments?
- How much supervision did you received in your previous job?
- Describe for me one of your biggest disappointments in your current job?
- Why are you leaving your current job?
- What’s important to you in a company, and what things do you look for in a new organization?
Job performance
- What are your strong points for this job? and would you say are areas requiring improvement?
- When you’ve been told, or discovered yourself, a problem in your job performance, what have you typically done? Can you give me an example?
- Do you prefer working alone or in groups?
- Starting with your last job, tell me about your achievements that were recognized by your manager?
- What things you would like to avoid in a job? Why?
- What would you say is the most important thing you are looking for in a job?
- What were some of the things about your last job that you found most difficult to do?
- What are some of the problems you encounter in doing your job? What do you usually do about it?
- What are some things you particularly liked about your last job?
- How do you feel about the way you were managed?
- If I asked your present/most recent employer about your ability, what would they say?
Education
- What aspects of your education or training have prepared you for this opportunity?
- What courses have been of most help in doing your present job? Why?
Career goals
- What is your long-term career objective?
- What kind of job do you see yourself doing five years from now?
- What do you feel you need to develop in terms of skill & knowledge to be ready for that opportunity?
- How does this job fit in with your overall career goals?
- What would you most like to achieve if you were offered this position?
- What might make you want to leave this role (be careful with this one)?
Self-assessment
- What kind of things do you feel most confident doing?
- Can you describe for me a difficult obstacle you have had to overcome?
- How would you describe yourself as a person?
- What do you think are the most important characteristics a person must possess to become successful?
- What do you consider to be your greatest achievements to date? Why?
- What things frustrate you the most? How do you usually cope with them?
- What things frustrate you the most? How do you usually cope with them?
Creativity
- Can you think of a problem you’ve encountered when the old solutions didn't work & you came up with a new one?
- What kind of problems have people recently called on you to solve? Tell me what you have devised.
Decisiveness
- Do you consider yourself to be thoughtful, or do you usually make up your mind up quickly? Give an example. (Watch time taken to respond)
- What was your most difficult decision in the last six months? What made it difficult?
- How do you go about making an important decision affecting your career?
Range of interests
- Tell me specifically what you like to o outside of the work?
- How do you keep up with what's going on in your industry?
Work standards
- What are your standards of success in your current position?
- In your position, how would you define doing a good job?
- If you were to manage the performance of a subordinate, what factors would you look for?
Leadership
- What approach do you take in getting your peers to accept your ideas?
- How would you get team colleagues who don’t want to work together to establish a common approach to a problem?
- How would you describe your basic leadership style? Give specific examples of how you practice this?
Flexibility
- What was the most important idea/suggestion you received at work and what happened as a result?
- What was the most significant change made by your company in the last six months that directly affected you, & how successfully did you adapt to this change?
Self-development
- What/who has been the most important event/person in your own self-development?
- What kind of books & other publications do you read?
第三部分就是情商测试，总共有１２０道题目，关于你的性格，你的做事的方法，你处理人际关系的能力等等。
总共面试大概进行了２个多小时。然后经理告诉我３个星期后等消息。以下是我的代理发给我的一些面试技巧，希望对大家有所帮助。
-How to Interview
Interviews are very straightforward and easy! (In principle, yes… however they do become easier with thought and preparation!)
Why? Because you go to an interview and hope that your expectations will be met. Also, the prospective employer also hopes their expectation will be met! Did you know that 90% of prospective employers know that an individual can do the job they are looking to hire for from a CV. Interviews take place for the prospective employer to discuss a little more about what you’ve written in your CV, and more importantly to talk to you about your aspirations in general, what you would like to do, how you can fit into the team etc. Think about it…prospective employers would love to find the right person for their organization after a couple of interviews rather than ‘trawl’ around!
I know… interviews are basically common sense with a little bit of preparation, but we don’t take the process lightly, and recommend you have a quick peruse.
Even if what’s listed below is used as a prompt for what you knew already… or perhaps just highlights one area for you to think about, then its still better than a wasted day off, or long journey! The following is aimed at helping you to achieve your best in an interview situation, however there’s no substitute for genuine enthusiasm and a desire to succeed at that particular interview.
-Pre-interview
- Find out a little more about the company and think of 1-2 questions you can ask during, or at the end of the interview which s