美国研究生专业分析—金融硕士（三）

作为标准的商科专业，金融硕士在申请过程中要做的事情的确有点多。除了选校精准，用心打造出彩的文书之外，面试环节的良好表现也是相当重要的。在综合排名前60位开设金融硕士的学校中，要求学生在申请环节参加面试的学校数量还真不少。当然，这些学校设置的面试形式并不相同。

比如范德堡大学和约翰霍普金斯大学近年在网申环节增加了提交视频面试的要求。通过学校网申系统中的链接，学生可以跳转到vieo录制页面进行视频录制前的测试练习。测试完毕，就可以开始正式录制了。这个视频面试的难度还是比较高的，主要的原因在于系统中会随机跳出面试问题，给学生非常短暂的时间进行准备，然后在规定时间内完成。面试过程虽然短暂，但是几乎很难精准堵到题进行事先练习，也不能反复录制，这对学生真实的口语水平和随机反应能力是个考验。我们通常会利用一个非常广泛的商科面试问题集帮学生进行面试前的辅导，但是由于视频题目有时非常奇特，押题不中的概率相当高。

相比之下马里兰大学的面试要简单一点，虽然也是随机跳出问题，但是截止到去年题目比较固定，会是下列问题集中的一个，所以只要全面准备还是可以押题的。我们无法预测在今年的申请过程中题目会不会变换，希望不要变吧。下面就是马里兰的问题集：

To better prepare for your final vieo response, you will be aske to prepare a 1 minute response to only one (1) of the following ranomly generate questions:

· Tell us about what makes you a unique caniate for this program an for the Smith School of Business community? What qualities, skills or talents will you bring to the stuent boy that will enable you to stan out among your classmates an ultimately achieve success as an engage Smith School grauate?

· What's your greatest accomplishment?

· What has been your most challenging acaemic or professional experience?

· What steps o you take to resolve a problem?

· What interests you the most about the Robert H. Smith School of Business?

· How oes this program fit into your career goals?

· What makes you a unique caniate for this program?

· What skills o you think are require to be successful in this program?

· How woul your peers escribe you?

· What contributions woul you bring to the Smith community?

· What or who inspires you?

罗切斯特大学,迈阿密大学和弗德汉姆大学等一般会邀请学生在递交申请后进行Skype 面试。只要之前精心准备，多数问题还是有可能被堵到的。下列就是部分我们经常用于做面试培训的问题。它们并不是能够涵盖所有面试问题的清单，不过以这些问题为基础去准备，可以形成一个比较强大的、环环相扣的答案体系，万一有超出范围的问题，多数可以从这些问题的答案中变通一下去回答。当然涉及闲聊或者观点型的问题就很难事先预测了。

Tell me about yourself.

What is your strongest personal asset?

What are your strengths an weaknesses as a stuent?

Name 3 strengths that you have an why you consier these strengths.

What woul one of your friens/teachers/supervisors say about you?

What woul a supervisor or professor tell me are your strengths?

Discuss your career progression.

Give examples of how you have emonstrate leaership insie an outsie the work environment.

What o you want to o (in regar to business function, inustry, location)?

Why the MBA? Why now?

Why i you major in _?

Why i you choose to atten ___ College/University?

When i you choose to enter this occupational fiel an why?

How i you make the ecision to apply to our program? What other programs i you consier?

How has your unergrauate backgroun prepare you for our program?

What courses have you enjoye the most?

What courses have been most ifficult for you?

What satisfaction have you gaine from your stuies?

Do you feel your acaemic recor accurately reflects your abilities an potential?

Do you feel you have worke to your full potential?

How woul you rate yourself in the following areas?

Reaing an Comprehension

Analytical Skills

Communication – oral an written, listening

What in’t you like about your college/university?

Tell me about a professor or supervisor that you in’t like an why.

Why woul you be an asset to our epartment? How woul you be able to contribute to our program?

What skills an experiences o you feel have prepare you for amission to this program?

Why shoul we consier you for our program instea of several other equally qualifie caniates?

How many programs have you applie to besies our institution/program?

What will you o if you are not accepte into our program?

Describe an ethical ilemma face at work?

Describe your career aspirations?

What woul you o if not accepte?

What are your long- an short-term goals? Why?

Why are you applying to business school?

Why oes this school appeal to you?

What is an activity you are involve in? Why is it important to you?

Talk about experiences you have ha at work.

Why are you intereste in this program?

Why i you choose your unergrauate major?

Discuss yourself.

What contributions woul you make to a group?

Name three wors or phrases to escribe yourself to others.

What is most frustrating at work?

How woul co-workers escribe you?

Describe a typical work ay.

Have you worke in a team environment? What were your contributions to the effort?

Discuss any experience you have ha abroa, if any.

What o you o to relieve stress?

Describe a situation where you brought an iea forwar, an it faile.

How o you efine success?

What woul you o if a team member wasn't pulling his own weight?

What extracurricular activity has been most satisfying to you?

What is the most significant contribution you have mae to your school?

What activities o you enjoy most outsie of the classroom?

Do you have any hobbies or outsie interests?

Tell me about any volunteer experiences in which you have participate.

How o you see this program fitting into your career goals?

Tell me about a goal you have set for yourself an how you have achieve it or inten to achieve it.

What challenges o you think you might face in the grauate program?

What woul you say is an area in which you nee improvement?

What woul you change about yourself an why?

What skills or abilities o you hope to strengthen through our program?

Tell me about a major accomplishment an how you achieve it.

Tell me about a situation in which you showe initiative.

Tell me about a group in which you were involve. How i you contribute to make this group achieve a goal?

Tell me about a time you assume a leaership role.

Tell me about a recent significant problem you face an how you hanle it.

Tell me how you hanle stress.

Tell me about a time you ha a number of assignments ue. How i you make sure you complete all of them on time an i a goo job?

Tell me about a time when you were confronte by a fellow stuent, co-worker or a customer. How i you hanle it to resolve the conflict?

Tell me about a time you were face with a ifficult situation an how you hanle it.

Tell me about a mistake you mae an how you hanle it.

Define teamwork (or success… quality… fairness)

What was the last book you rea or movie you saw?

How will you make the worl a better place?

If you coul have inner with someone (living or ea), who woul that person be?

Is there anything you woul like to ask me/us?

此外，一些学校，例如圣路易斯华盛顿大学、西储大学和东北大学等开始采用Kira Talent第三方系统视频录制面试。要提供面试的学校真不少，对于杜兰大学和乔治华盛顿大学这样录取过程不需要面试的学校，我们简直可以陡然升起感恩的情绪了。