5 Secrets to a successful Job Interview 揭秘成功面试的五大秘诀视频接英语文本：
One of the scariest moments in your life—when you’re having a job interview. I’m Marty Nemko, I’m contributing columnist to Kiplingers and I'm going to share some secrets to make sure that yours is a winning interview.
The first key to a winning job interview—energy. It’s shallow but it’s amazing how shallow employers actually are. If you come in like this, even if you’re saying great content, “Yes, I have a PhD from Harvard, you’re still going to seem half-dead even if you’re not even—I don’t want you to be a phony. But what I want you to do is think about your normal range on energy, we all have a range or sometimes we’re more laconic, or sometimes we’re more animated, being at the top of your range and that will make all the difference. One of the scariest and often the very first questions you get asked is, “Tell me about yourself.” Well, the reality is, that the biggest mistake that you could make was starting how you were born and blah, blah, blah. What you want to answer is you want to tell the things about yourself that are most likely to impress that interviewer. So let’s say, you were applying for a job as a systems analyst, you can say. “Well first of all, my interest of systems analyst when I was at Illinois Tech University and I met this professor who had a part time job as a systems analyst,” you start with that. Then you talk about the nest thing. And you keep it to under 60 seconds. That’s critical to getting to your interview off to a great start. One of the most frequently asked questions in a job interview, “Tell me about your strengths.” Well, if you do, this is a bad answer. “Well, I believe I’m a self-starter and a team player and I believe I’d like exceeding customer expectations,” bad, bad, bad. It’s a clichéd, it seems like it’s biased, you don’t want to do it. Your employer, the person who is interviewing you is starting out thinking you’re probably likely the ‘biases’ a lot of the bias in the job interviews. And the antidote to that is stories, true stories about the problem you’ve faced, how you approached it and its positive resolution. That’s the PAR story – Problem, Approach, and Resolution. Example, “Well, when I was working for Hewlett Packard, we once have a problem, the system was incomplete and we have an ancient system and we couldn’t figure how we get it to work. So what I did was I review all of the options both on the internet and I interviewed everybody in the company and it we came out with a system and it was about three years ago and they’re still using it today.” The problem, how I approached it, and positive resolution, that’s the key to answering the question, “What are your greatest strengths?” The worst moment in any job interview is when they asked you that hard question, “Oh no, what am I going to do now?” Here is the secret. Always, when they ask you a hard question, make your answer short. There is a tendency when you were asked by a hard question, you try to dig your way up by giving a long answer, but do you know what happens when you do that? Then a larger proportion of the interview is spent on that which you don’t want to talk about. It’s the opposite. Marty Nemko’s rule of thumb, short answers to hard questions, longer answers to easy questions. The final tip that I want to offer you about how to make your job interview the winning one, what to respond when they say, “Well, do you have any questions for us?” Don’t you say, “When do I start?” or don’t just say, “Where do they serve lunch?” Here’s what my favourite question to ask, “You know, well, I’m quite honest with you and admitted that I’ve never been a systems analyst, I’ve tried to explain how my previous experience would make me qualify. Do you think I could do this job well?” The reason that’s such a great question, if they have an objection, they will bring it up and it gives you a chance to respond. If they have doubts in you, and you haven’t had a chance to respond, you may have mixed yourself. And that’s my final tip. And those are my very favourite tips I’ve had to have a winning job interview. For Kiplingers, I am Marty Nemko
