8. What did you most like (dislike) about your previous job?
9. What were your responsibilities as a ..?
Answers:
I’m a sales manager at ××× company.
I have been …at..
I was in charge of ..
I have been working there for ×××years.
I was responsible for …
Educational Background (关于教育背景方面的问题)
Q: what is your major?
A: My major is Business Administration. I am especially interested in "Marketing".
Q: What are your major and minor subjects?
A: My major subject is Physics and my minor subject is Practical Mathematics.
Q: What subject did you major in at university?
A: I majored in Economics.
Q: Which university did you graduate from?
A: I graduated from ××× University.
Q: When did you graduate from university?
A: I graduated from Shanghai Normal University in 1990.
Q: Have you received any degrees?
A: Yes. First, I received my Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature, and then an MBA degree.
Q: What course did you like best?
A: Project Management. I was very interested in this course when I was a student. And I think it's very useful for my present work.
Q: How did you get on with your studies in college?
A:I did well in college. I was one of the top students in the class.
Q: Do you feel that you have received a good general training?
A; Yes, I have studied in an English training program and a computer training program since I graduated from university. I am currently studying Finance at a training school.
其他一些有关教育背景方面的提问方式及答案：
1. What’s your educational background?
2. What degrees do you have?
3. What about your education?
4. Now tell me something about your professional education?
5. What university did you graduate from?
6. What’s your specialty?
7. What research have you even done?
8. What are your major subject and minor subjects?
9. How many languages can you speak?
10. What foreign languages can you speak?
11. Can you speak, write, and read English fluently?
12. Can you manage English conversations?
13. How is your English proficiency?
Answers:
1. Three years ago I graduated from ×××University. I received a ×××degree there. ××× is my major and English is my foreign language.
2. I have a master of ×××
3. my specialty is ×××
4. I like to deal with…
5. my major is
其他方面的问题：
Q: Why should we accept you?
A: Because firstly I’ve received very good academic training, secondly, I’ve obtained good job skills, and finally I’m very enthusiastic about my MBA study.
Q: What would you do if....?
A: This question is designed to test your response. For example: "What would you do if your computer broke down during an audit?" Your answer there isn't nearly so important as your approach to the problem. And a calm approach is best. Start by saying, "One thing I might do is ..." Then give several alternative choices.
Q: What do you think is more important in getting a job, education background or experience?
A: Most job advertisements say that experience is needed or preferred, that is to say, those with experience are more likely to be hired.
Q: What qualities are needed to get a promotion in a company?
A: If an employee is hard-working and loyal/well-experienced in his job, creative and innovative/quick at decision-making, he is likely to be promoted.
Q: What qualities are the basic requirements for leading positions at all levels in a company?
A: In my view, a business leader should be able to build up appropriate and effective interpersonal relationship with his/her employees and clients.
Q: Why do some honest and loyal employees remain unprompted after many years of hard work?
A: The position of a leader asks for more than honesty, loyalty and industry.
Q: Do you think English is quite important in MBA study?
A: Having an excellent command of English in speaking, reading, listening, and writing is critical to a MBA student as long as he wants to become an internationalized entrepreneur and doesn’t want to miss the huge potential of business opportunities in the cooperation with any company from English-speaking countries.
And since MBA projects have been far more developed in US and European countries than in China, an English proficiency will definitely be of a great help to the understanding and learning of advanced theories and practices in business administration.
Q: Do you know something about the development of China’s MBA projects? Can you give any suggestions on the room for improvement of China’s MBA projects?
A: China began to participate in MBA programs since the early 1980s’ mainly through cooperation with US and European business schools. And from 1990s’, China began to establish the degree of MBA projects.
Suggestions for improvement:
Localization of MBA projects, especially focus on the establishment of our own case bank.
Market-orientation. China is in great need of executives who are technically sound in the fields of IT, finance, and accounting and who have a thorough command of management theories and good communication skills and strategic viewpoints.
More attention should be drawn to the education of CTOs and CFOs besides the traditional education of CEOs.
In China, apart from CTOs, we are in great need for CFOs, those who knows the operation of capital markets as well as the general management knowledge because the biggest challenges for enterprises in China are how to finance a company and how to handle the risky capital markets.
Q: What is CFO and the related responsibilities?
A:
CFO is the abbreviated form of Chief Financial Officer, who is the most important and valuable position of management in modern enterprises besides CEO.
Responsibilities for CFO: handle various financial relations especially relations with the investors (investment financing), with governments (taxation, and bond supervision), and strategic business planning, and human resources management.
A CFO will direct the department of planning, department of finance, department of operational management, department of ERP and department of H.R.
In other words, CFO is responsible for all the departments except departments of production and sales.
We should lay more emphasis on the education and training of CFO.
Relationship between CEO and CFO
CEO is the one who make decisions on the long-term objectives or missions for a company, while CFO is the one who make those ambitions and long-term planning into concrete, operable strategies especially the financial strategies. And not only that, CFO is the person who actually assess the fulfillment of the objectives. So the harmonious cooperation between CEO and CFO in a company is critical.