Q = Interviewer; A = HR professional

Q: Learn English Professionals is talking to John Woodrow, who works in the Human Resources department of a large UK-based company. John, tell us about your work...
采访者：英语学习专家今天邀请到约翰•伍德罗，约翰是在一家总部在英国的公司的人力资源部门工作的。约翰，请你谈谈你的工作。

A: I work on recruitment, especially – so I’m the person who reads the hundreds of CVs we get sent each year!
人力资源专家：我的工作主要是招聘新员工，也就是说我每年都会看到很多我们收到的简历。

Q: Do you accept CVs as part of your recruitment process?
采访者：那简历是你们招聘流程之一吗？

A: When we advertise for a particular post, we send out our own application form, which is tailored to our company, and we can use it to make sure we find exactly what we’re looking for...
人力资源专家：我们登招聘广告的时候，我们会发出为我们公司量身订做的简历，确保我们能够找到我们中意的员工。

Q: So a CV is useless?
采访者：所以自己制作的简历是没用处的？

A: No! Not at all – we’re happy to accept CVs from people even when we’re not recruiting. That way we can build up a database of possible candidates, and as our company is always changing – we’re very flexible in our needs right now (laughs) – it’s good to know what kind of people are out there. We do keep everything on file, and will get back to people who look promising.
人力资源专家：不是这样子的。我们不需要招聘新人的时候，我们很乐意收到简历，因为我们公司是不断变化的，需求比较灵活变化，而这个方式有利于我们建立候选人的数据库，（笑……）了解什么样的人投了简历。我们会对他们的资料存档，然后回复那些感觉能力较强的人。

Q: So we should be sending you our CVs?
采访者：那就是我们要发送我们的简历给你们？

A: Yes, absolutely, yes!
人力资源专家：是的，当然！

Q: What advice can you give us on writing a CV?
采访者：关于写简历，你有什么建议呢？ 

A: Keep it short, keep it simple, keep it relevant. Anything longer than three pages will automatically go into the bin. Just tell us what we need to know. Make sure it’s clearly written – and that there are no spelling mistakes on it! And no fancy fonts... or photographs. We don’t need to know what people look like, just what they’ve done, and what they’re capable of...
人力资源专家：保持简短、扼要和信息的相关性。只要是超过三页的自动出局。只要告诉我们需要知道的就行了。还有，确保书写清晰，并且没有拼写错误，没有花俏字体或图片。我们不需要知道人的长相，只需要知道他们做了什么，他们能做什么就行了。

Q: So we’re going to look at a couple of CVs now...
采访者：所以现在我们将可以看到几份不同的简历……

A: Yes – these are a couple that arrived just this morning, so let’s take a look...(sound of paper unfolding)... OK, I can see straight away that we have a good one and a bad one here...
人力资源专家：是的，这是今天早上刚收到的简历，让我们来看一下……（翻页的声音）好的，我明显地看到这里有一篇好的，一篇差的……

Q: (laughs) How can you tell so soon?
采访者：（笑声）你怎么可以那么快就辨别出来呢？

A: Well, as I just said, this one here is... how many... one,two, three, four pages long, it’s written in tiny type, I can hardly read it... and, wait, yes, there’s a photograph attached to the front!
人力资源专家：就像我刚才说的，这一篇有一、二、三、四页纸，字体很小，我读不了……还有，对，首页还贴着一张照片！

Q: Too much information?
采访者：信息量太大了？

A: Yes... just leafing through it, I can see he’s written about where he went to primary school – that’s just not relevant...
人力资源专家：没错。大致看了一下，我发现他从小学开始写起，这都是一些不相关的信息……

Q: What kind of educational background should be included?
采访者：那应该填写什么样的教育背景呢？

A: Perhaps your high school, but it’s mostly further education we’re interested in, university or college, then any professional qualifications you may have, as well as work experience of course...
人力资源专家：你的高中教育吧，但是我们更倾向于进修，或者是你有的职业资格，当然还有工作经验……

Q: That’s important?
采访者：这个很重要吗？

A: Oh yes – placements or internships all count!
人力资源专家：对，人员配置和实习也算。

Q: What about personal information?
采访者：那个人信息呢？

A: A bit is necessary... but look, this guy has written he was a member of the stamp collecting society in secondary school...! Not interested...
人力资源专家：也算是必要的。但是，这位却写着他中学是邮票收集社团的一员，实在不感兴趣……

Q: What about the other CV?
采访者：其他简历怎样？

A: OK, again, I can see right away this looks more promising... only two and a half pages, lots of space on the page, easy to read, well-organised. Hmmm, a couple of impressive looking references, that’s good. And, yes, they’ve included language skills – very important...
人力资源专家：是的，我觉得这个倒是挺不错的，两页半，留有很多空间，也容易读，组织得也不错。一些参考挺令人印象深刻的，挺不错的。还有，很重要的是里面包含了语言技能。

Q: What languages are you looking for?
采访者：你们现在倾向于什么语言？

A: Well, English, obviously – as we’re a UK-based company and English is still the language of global business, and then, well, anything really – Spanish is useful, Russian, Mandarin Chinese too...
人力资源专家：我们公司总部在英国，加上现在英语还是全球贸易的通用语言，所以肯定是英语。还有西班牙语也很有用，俄语，国语也是……

Q: OK, we’ll get studying! Thanks John!
采访者：好了，我们会好好学的！约翰，谢谢！