Business Interview

Business interview  An interview is an highly intelligence- intensive work. It requires interviewers to be equipped with multi-facet qualities.  Interviews with business elites are often done face to face. Business elites are very important figures in business circles. They are very busy every day and every minute counts.

 Therefore, the time for an interview is usually set beforehand. And an interviewer, usually a journalist, must have very good communication skills and could establish friendly and trustworthy relationship at the very beginning of the interview, which would help the interviewee feel comfortable and relaxed and would like to speak out what the interview needs.

 In addition, the interviewer must have a wide range of knowledge and a good analytical and logically thinking capability that would help control the rhythm of process and the theme of the interview.

Basic Vocabulary  distinguished guest  嘉宾  Board of Directors  董事会  Supervisory Committee  监事会  fixed assets  固定资产

 market share  市场份额  market situation  行情  networks for sales and service  销售和服务网络  banking system  金融系统  a win-win situation  双赢局面

 驻外记者  foreign correspondent  专栏作家  columnist  特约撰稿人  staff writer  自由撰稿人  free-lancer

Preparing --Phrases Interpreting  采访人  被采访人  无可奉告  新闻发布会  现场报道  通讯社  记者证  标题新闻  专题报道  时事 1. Interviewer 2. Interviewee 3. No comment 4. News briefing 5. Live report 6. News agency 7. Press card 8. Headline news 9. Special report 10. Current affairs

Preparing --Sentences Interpreting  您在与中国建立合资企业方面取得了相当大的 成功。  我们坚信，健康的贸易伙伴关系是建立良好开 端的基础。  谢谢您今天给我们介绍的经验。  您知道，世界已进入信息时代，在这个时代里， 电讯为人类的相互作用构造了唯一通用的架构。  我倒很想知道人力资源部经理都有哪些职责？

1. May I ask you to comment upon your experiences of doing business in China? 2. What is the difference between a project contract and an ordinary sales and purchase contract? 3. How do you account for the success? Is it due to marketing strategy, good management or something else? 4. Insurance is the backbone of international trade. International trade and insurance have developed together and without it, we would find the economies of the world in a very sorry state. 5. She has a perfect command of the Chinese language, and is very popular with the legal and business circles here.

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Assignment --Simulation Exercises Work in groups. Role-play the following situations with your partners. Situation A One of you is a journalist from Shenzhen Daily. You are doing a series of reports about the famous businessman in the joint venture in Shenzhen. Now you are interviewing one of the CEO of an international oil company. Please ask him something about his living and working in Shenzhen and his point of view on the Open-policy in China. Another student tries to be the CEO. Situation A One of you is a journalist from Shenzhen Daily. You are doing a series of reports about the famous businessman in the joint venture in Shenzhen. Now you are interviewing one of the CEO of an international oil company. Please ask him something about his living and working in Shenzhen and his point of view on the Open-policy in China. Another student tries to be the CEO. Situation B One of you is a reporter from Shenzhen TV, the English Program. You are going to interview one of the Chinese Ph.D from U.S.A. You are going to ask him something about the similarities and dissimilarities between the two cultures and their effect on business. Another student tries to be the Chinese Ph.D. Situation B One of you is a reporter from Shenzhen TV, the English Program. You are going to interview one of the Chinese Ph.D from U.S.A. You are going to ask him something about the similarities and dissimilarities between the two cultures and their effect on business. Another student tries to be the Chinese Ph.D.