BEP 168 Interviewing for your First Job (Part 2)

Interviewing for a job is a lot like a sales meeting. You need to sell yourself to the employer by convincing them that you have the knowledge, skills, and experience they need. But when you’re interviewing for your first job, it gets a little trickier¹ as you probably don’t have that much work experience. So, you need to show the interviewer why your college experience makes you the best candidate for the job.

In this lesson, we’ll focus on ways to highlight that experience and relate it to the job. We’ll talk about extra-curricular activities, internships, and gap years. And, we’ll look at ways to differentiate³ yourself from the competition and prove that you’re the best person for the job.
In today’s dialog, we’ll rejoin Owen, who is interviewing for a test engineer position at IBH, an electronics company. He’s in the middle of a panel interview with Erica and Cindy, two HR reps, and George, who’s in charge of engineering at the printers division of IBH.

Listening Questions

1. Name one thing Owen did for his school’s robotics team.
2. Why did Owen decide to intern² at Lu Tech?
3. What did Owen do during his gap year?

1 trickier   

adj.狡猾的( tricky的比较级 )；（形势、工作等）复杂的；机警的；微妙的

参考例句：

• This is the general rule, but some cases are trickier than others. 以上是一般规则，但某些案例会比别的案例更为棘手。 来自互联网
• The lower the numbers go, the trickier the problems get. 武器的数量越低，问题就越复杂。 来自互联网

2 intern   

v.拘禁，软禁；n.实习生

参考例句：

• I worked as an intern in that firm last summer.去年夏天我在那家商行实习。
• The intern bandaged the cut as the nurse looked on.这位实习生在护士的照看下给病人包扎伤口。

3 differentiate   

vi.(between)区分；vt.区别；使不同

参考例句：

• You can differentiate between the houses by the shape of their chimneys.你可以凭借烟囱形状的不同来区分这两幢房子。
• He never learned to differentiate between good and evil.他从未学会分辨善恶。