Course in brief

This Business Mandarin Interview workshop is designed specifically to help the senior executive sail through a job interview that calls for any level of proficiency in Mandarin Chinese, from basic to advanced.

In the workshop, under the guidance of a top-ranked facilitator , you will learn to understand and use key business terms in Mandarin Chinese, identify and prepare answers to every standard interview question, and become aware of cultural differences that may affect the interview.

You can leave the workshop with an exclusive CD and manual to guide at-home practice, and you can sign up for a private, individual mock interview to hone your new skills and receive feedback. (Take a look at the sample success stories that follow.)

You can opt for any or all of the entire three-part package-(1) Enhance Your Interview Skills in Business Mandarin Workshop, (2) Practice Interview in Business Mandarin, and the (3) CD and manual. It's the ideal way to guarantee yourself the most successful possible interview.

Note: A placement test will be arranged prior to course commencement.

Demo

(1) Enhance Your Interview Skills in Business Mandarin

Who should attend:

Who should attend

a. For interviewers (HR director, department head, owner, partner, recruitment consultant)

To recruit the top candidates for Chinese business development, you'll need the skills in conducting effective interviews and meetings that our training in Business Mandarin offer. This interview workshop for HR professionals covers the essentials: recruitment, contracts, recruitment packages, job descriptions, benefits & compensation, and communication techniques specific to Hong Kong and Mainland China or Taiwan. Business Mandarin workshops have a reputation among top-tier human resources specialists for producing results. We invite you to visit our photo gallery and to read comments of past workshoppers.

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b. For applicants

If your goal is to develop your interview skills and build a resume in Mandarin Chinese sure to get you short-listed for a managerial grad position, this workshop is made to order for you. The workshop offers invaluable assistance to help you land a senior finance position requiring some Chinese-language skills. Whether you are interviewing at an investment bank, mutual fund, hedge fund, or legal firm, or seeking a CFO or CEO post in the commercial sector, this workshop and manual help you get familiar with the Chinese you'll need to present yourself at your best.

Key Benefits:

1. Learn Key Finance Concepts in Business Mandarin

• Mergers and acquisitions
• Valuation techniques
• Bonds and interest rates
• Options and derivatives
• Accounting concepts
• IPO steps
• Documentation analysis
• Due diligence

2. Understand How to Use Standard Business Mandarin

• Learn the best Chinese-approved ways to practice for your interview.
• Learn the hand gestures acceptable among Chinese.
• Learn how to identify interview questions and possible interview questions in Chinese.
• Learn key words that will help you make a positive impression on the Chinese interviewers.
• Find out what you should do on the day of the interview.
• Learn to identify the differences between Chinese and Western interviews from a cultural perspective, including the concept of illegal interview questions and the labor laws behind them

(2) Mock Job Interviews in Business Mandarin

Business Mandarin offers you this exclusive value-added service: Mock job interviews in Mandarin Chinese based on actual job openings. Each mock interview includes the job description, a set of practice questions, answer tips, and interview resources. Also available are more interview questions, more interview help for specific jobs, and interview guides by job and company. All meetings are kept strictly confidential.

Areas and Positions Served:

Case studies from Mock Interview Workshops

Executive director of principal investment with a leading investment bank
This student was applying for an internal transfer and was scheduled for an interview with the department head in two days. He had studied Chinese with Business Mandarin for 30 hours, and his objective was to tell the interviewer his reasons for wanting the transfer. He was trained to explain in Chinese the IPO steps and his history of successful transactions. He got the position and re-enrolled in Business Mandarin's total-immersion course in Beijing before he assumed the post.

Partner in a big-four accounting firm
Scheduled to interview a team of short-listed new graduates from Shanghai, this student, born in Hong Kong, had studied in England since age 12 and spoke the Cantonese dialect, but not Mandarin. After studying with Business Mandarin for 30 hours, he was interviewed by Business Mandarin trainers in a mock interview. When the time came for the real interview, he asked the prepared questions naturally and could understand the applicants' responses.

Financial analyst from an investment bank
An overseas Chinese from New York whose parents were from Taiwan, this student prepared for a job interview with another finance firm selling securities after her company underwent restructuring. After an intensive 90 -hours of Business Mandarin study, she was well prepared in Mandarin and today holds a similar job, with responsibility for Taiwan, Singapore, and Hong Kong. She wrote a card of thanks to her teacher for her customized course and many hours' worth of help.

(3) Business Mandarin Interview Skills Manual + CD

To help you prepare for questions on your skills and abilities, we provide you with hundreds of interview questions, answers, and answer tips, including:

• Communications
• Customer Service
• Education
• Interpersonal Skills
• Motivation
• Teamwork
• Working Effectively with Others

Plus 100 Interview Questions in Business Mandarin
You'll practice the answers to these questions and more:

• How do I convince the interviewer that I really want the job?
• How do I explain a career change, gaps in my work history, terminations, or lay-offs?
• What should I expect in a second interview? What clues from the first interview can help me in the second interview?
• What's the best way to close the interview?
• More..

Ms. Liu Ming Cui, Principal Consultant, Business Mandarin Consulting Group

Ms. Liu, one of Asia's most renowned Chinese language-coaching experts, is a highly respected designer of language training for such organizations as Deutsche Bank, Visa International, Amway, Bausch & Lomb, Mass Transit Railway Corporations, Hong Kong Trade Development Council and Swire Coca-Cola. Since 1998, she has coached more than 200 senior executives from such companies as AOL Times Warner, JP Morgan, Goldman Sachs, INVESCO, Merrill Lynch, Island Shangri-La, KPMG, Hang Seng Insurance, Prudential, Pacific Century, Clifford Chance, Holman, Fenwick & Willan, State Street , Nestle and the Hong Kong Airport Authority

A consultant to industries in an array of fields, specializing for the finance and legal sectors, Ms. Liu exhibits an enthusiasm for teaching and lifelong learning, as well as an integrity, reliability, and respect for confidentiality, that make her a much-sought-after workshop facilitator. A professor for 10 years at Dong Wu University, Taiwan, and a recipient of the Teaching Excellence Award, Ms. Liu has a master's degree in Social Work and Psychology and is certified as a Chinese-language teacher by both Peking University and Baptist University of Hong Kong. Based in Hong Kong, where she lives with her husband, Ms. Liu develops and supervises training courses and immersion programs in Beijing, Shanghai, and Hong Kong.

Senior Executives from Human Resource Departments, Hong Kong

"The precise Mandarin pronunciation practice benefited me a lot. Based on my experience in this workshop, I would like to learn more presentation skills in the future."
ABN Amro Bank

"Communication in Chinese is very important nowadays. After the workshop, I learnt more about how to communicate with my colleagues in Mainland China with some specific words and phrases in compensation and benefit."
Amway

"The workshop met my expectations. Ms Liu, the trainer, was highly competent and did an excellent job. I got more ideas about how to conduct interviews in Mandarin. I will suggest that my HR executive take the workshop. "
AOL Warner Bros

"The Enhance Your Interview Skills in Business Mandarin workshop is very comprehensive, particularly good for those with same fundamental mandarin exposure. I learned many relevant phrases useful for an HR/Recruiting context."
A.T. Kearney

"Through this workshop, I started to understand more about your company's teaching method. I hope to learn more about the Mandarin selling and customer services skills in the future."
Bayer China Co. Ltd

"I appreciate the effort Business Mandarin put into this workshop. It was very successful! The facilitator Ms. Liu was very knowledgeable and experienced in coping with students' needs. I enjoyed the workshop very much."
CPSINet Hong Kong Ltd

"I learned a lot of useful pronunciation through the workshop."
Copeland Corp.

"I learned some useful "Human Resource" phrases related to my work and experience. I appreciated your providing such excellent facilities. The teacher was very energetic. "
Jebsen & Co. Ltd

"I learned many interview words. The teacher was very knowledgeable and helpful. I would like to learn more negotiation skills and communication skills "
MetLife Insurance Co

"The teaching method was very flexible. I enjoyed taking the role-playing and case studies."
Hong Kong Trade Development Council

"The workshop was excellent both in teaching methodology and case analysis. "
Hong Kong China Gas Co Ltd

"The most useful part of the workshop for me was learning lots of interview phrases. I am sure I can use them during my interviews."
National Semiconductor H.K. Ltd

"I liked the workshop because it was designed based on my work needs. The workshop was very useful."
Panalpina

"I could see how much effort Business Mandarin and the teacher Ms. Liu put into the workshop. "
Sime Darby H.K. Ltd

"I can use the Mandarin phrases I learned from the workshop daily, when I talk to my colleagues in China. I am sure my colleagues who need to work and connect with Chinese industry need the same kind of training in both negotiation and communication."
Swire Coca-cola H.K. Ltd

"Learning the different choices for words and phrases for interviewing in Mainland and Hong Kong benefited me the most during the workshop. I will suggest that my colleagues from other departments sign up. "
Watson Wyatt

"The workshop's design fits my working needs. It was very useful and the teaching method is very flexible. I would like my colleagues to enroll in some of the other training workshops."
Whirlpool (HK) Ltd

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