问：告诉我一个曾令你对自己的表现感到失望的项目。
答：我以前在一家制造业公司工作时，必须对所有供应商的开价（发盘）作出分析，然后把建议提交给后勤部副部长。由于供应商开价并不统一，我的分析报告通常要对不同的项目作比较，这就令报告显得有点混乱，直到我把报告重新整理并提交给副部长时，我们已经错过了对价格进行审批的关键时刻。事后回想起来，我想我本该采取简单的方法解决问题，而不是把所有的东西都放在一起考虑，把问题复杂化。自那以后，我更加注意及时地提出建议。
描述你工作中遇到的一些阻碍，以及你是怎样尽力去克服它们的。你的技能起到怎样的作用？事后回想起来，你当时该采取什么不同的做法？吸取了什么样的教训？
Q:Tell me about a project in which you were disappointed with your personal performance.
A:In my last job for a manufacturing company, I had to analyze all of the supplier bids and present recommendations to the vice president of logistics. Because the supplier bids werent in a uniform format, my analysis often consisted of comparing dissimilar items. This caused some confusion in my final report, and by the time Id reworked it and presented it to the ice president, we'd lost the critical time we needed to improve our approval process for these bids. In hindsight I should have taken a simpler approach to the problem and not tried to make it so complex or all inclusive. Ever since, Ive paid more attention to making recommendations in a timely manner.
问：请举例说明有一次你被要求完成一项任务，但却没有得到足够的资料，你怎样解决这种问题？
答：在上一次实习期间，我的上司—— 一个主管账目的行政人员，叫我收集好500份宣传稿去邮寄。我不是很确定宣传稿的次序和该往哪里寄，而我的上司已经出去与客户会面了。我担心把资料堆在一块会把次序弄乱，于是想方设法找到她的移动电话。
在电话里她向我详细说明了资料的次序。最后，我设法避免了有可能花费更多的工作时间，并且可能耽搁邮寄时间的错误，更别提一些令人头痛的事情。
虽然这个例子听似很琐碎，但却证明了应聘者的成熟和理性处理工作问题的能力。面试官想弄清楚你是否知道仅仅把工作完成是不够的。你的回答应该表现出你随机应变的能力和积极主动的特质。
Q:Give an example of a time when you were asked to accomplish a task but werent given enough information. How did you resolve this problem.
A:At my last internship, my supervisor, an account executive, asked me to assemble five hundred press kits for a mailing. I wasn't sure in what order the pages and press releases should go, but my supervisor had already left for a client meeting. Afraid of putting the information together in the wrong order, I managed to track down her cellphone number and called her in her car. She explained the order of the materials over the phone, and in the end I managed to prevent a mistake that would have cost hours of work and a delay in the mailingnot to mention a few headaches.
