1. Describe an instance where you set your sights on a
high/demanding goal and saw it through completion.
举例说明,你如何制定了一个很高的目标,并且最终实现了它。
2. Summarize a situation where you took the initiative
to get others going on an important task or issue and played a leading role to achieve
the results you wanted.
请举例说明你在一项团队活动中如何采取主动性,并且起到领导者的作用,最终获得你所希望的结果。
3. Describe a situation where you had to seek out relevant
informationdefine key issues and decide on which steps
to take to get the desired results.
Please
provide concise examples that will help us better understand your capabilities.
1、Describe an instance
where you set your sights on a high/demanding goal and saw it though
completion.
Demanding
Goal: To design a musical and dramatic show to celebrate the centennial
Anniversary of Tianjin University.
The person
who reaches this goal: Chairman of Tianjin University Student Union What I
learned from this observation: It is not necessary for a true leader to be an
expert in such or such field of his career. But he must possess the charismatic
and the capacity to drive different people, who have diverging opinions, or even
conflicting interests, to proceed togother to the same organizational goal.
2、Summarize a
situation where you took the initiative to get others on an important task or
issue, and played a leading role to achieve the results you wanted.
The
activity I initiated: To organize a group to sing English anthems on Charistmas
Eve, visit all domitories in university and send christmas gifts on behalf of
our English Association
The desired result: To
broaden the students’ horizons about Western culture.
My
leading role: Combine the representatitives’ suggestions with my idea and draw
the decision on:
*What
songs to play?
*Who
could attend the choir?
*Which
spots we performed on?
The
result: Many students said that they felt the warmness we sent to them and they
hoped we would hold such activities next Charistmas.
3、Describe a
situation where you had seek out relevant information, define key issues, and
decide on which steps to take to get the desired results.
Background:
I organized the first activity after the establishment of the Management School
English Association.
The
desired result: To help the freshmen and the sophomores with their English
while publicizing our group.
Key
issue:
*What
aspect of the students’ English abilities needed refining? Relevant
Information:
*What
kind of entertainment was popular among students and also offered chances for
them to learn English most effectively?
*Which
foreign teacher was suitable for this position?
*When
was our member free? *Whch place was convenient for most attendances?
*Other
related factors, such as the availibility of facilities and the layout of the
spots.
4、Describe an
instance where you made effective use of facts to secure the agreement of
others.
Background:
I advanced a plan to found an English Garden in collaboration with fraternal
association in nei ** oring university.
The
disagreement:
*The
authority of our school may dissent.
*The
cost was expensive, and we had no enough human resoure to carry on this
project.
*There
were too many English corners. Another one was unnecessary. The facts I made
use:
*Our
dean approved this proposal.
*Our
partner was willing to provide financial assistantship. And our members
volunteered to design the details of the plan and implement it.
*The
poll showed that the current English corners did not meet the students’
requirement and lacked uniqueness. The result: Others were convinced and we
founded the English Garden successfully.
5、Give an
example of how you worked effectively with people to accomplish an important
result.
Background: In the
military training, we hold a Military Songs Competition.
Working
procedure:
Design:
I cooperated with my collegues to figure out the climax of the performance, the
musical accompaniment of the songs and the whole arrangement of the narrative
poem.
Rehearsal:
I worked together with those who were in charge of the lights, sounds and
scenes to create the perfect artistic effect.
On
stage: I reminded my fellows with gestures and eye expressions. Also, we coped
with an emergency coherently.
The
result: Our military team won the second prize in this competition.
6、Describe a
creative/innovative idea that you produced which led to a significant
contribution to the success of an activity or project.
Activity: To hold the
Perspective Entrepreneur Contest.
The
innovative idea I produced: To simulat a board meeting of a company, in which
our candidates debated the feasibility of selling modern fitness equipment
according to the market information they collected.
The result: The
contest was hold based on my proposal.
7、Provide an
example of how you assessed a situation and achieved good results by focusing
on the most important priorities.
Background:
On one morning when our promotion month first began, I found that the
inventories in some department stores were not adequate.
My
assessment of the situation: The four promoting stores were not very far from
each other, and the time they opened was not the same. It was possible to fetch
some stock from another store and made up for it later.
The
priorities: To satisfy the stocking demand of the store which had the largest
number of customers.
8、Provide an
example of how you acquired technical skills and converted them to practical
application.
Background:
In the inverstigation of customers’ opinions about the taste of a new kind of
beer, I found that the questionnaire form was out of date and limited the
freedom of the responsers’ choices.
Technical skills: The
scientific arrangement of questionnaire form
The
result: With the help the converted form, our company obtained more objective
and effective information..