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2月9日reading phd面试

[日期:2005-08-07] 来源:ChaseDream论坛 作者:rodmace [字体: ]

2月9日,Reading面试经历

早上7点,就被mm无情的用电话叫起,准备坐11点的火车去reading。其实大可不必起的这么早,不过自己心里还是发虚,所以才利用早上这个学习黄金时间磨枪。后来发现是一点没效果,还不如多休息一下!

11:03分,火车从birmingham车站开出,结果遇到了英国春运高峰……sign……一直站到了birmingham international 这才有了座位(后来发现,其实我的票的座位是reserved,就是说我其实应该有座)。经过将近两个小时的车程,我来到了reading这个小城。

从火车站到学校还是有一段距离的,而且reading这个学校在一个小山坡上,由于皮鞋一直就不是特合适,等到了学校,脚已经开始隐隐做痛,影响面试心情啊!!建议以后面试的同志们,一定要穿舒服点的皮鞋!!切记!!

在reading的学联简单吃了点垃圾食品以后,匆匆赶到了reading的humanity and social sciences building。一看表,嘿,早了20多分钟,结果发现这个building简直就是曲径通幽啊,转了不知道多少个弯,终于怀着忐忑的心情,找到了 department of management。当时再一看表,还有5分钟就2点了。乖乖,差点就晚了!

走进room88,迎面走来一特慈祥的老奶奶(绝对没夸张,满头白发啊),一见我就说,你就是rodmace吧,来来,先坐啊。跟到她家里做客一样,心情大大放松。要是结果不错,还真是要感谢这位老奶奶!

言归正传,在屋里等了不多时,院长大人到了,利马把我请到一个小会议室,面试正式开始:

head of the department(H)  me (M)

简单客套以后,院长大人拿出一文件袋,从里面拿出我所有的申请材料

H: Hi, so, your name is rodmace?(同时还用手指点着申请表)

M: Yeah.

H: Okay, tell me something about the strategy courses you took in LSE.

M: OK, I took 2 courses, analysis of strategy A and B, which were our core courses.

H: Who taught these courses?

M:先是一楞,怎么还有这个问题……,然后就如实回答了

H: I see. Okay, tell me what did you learn from the courses?

M: 这个问题我是准备好的,然后把game theory的东西说了说 (我说的时候,院长不时点头,当时心里挺美,其实院长那会正想下面的问题呢……)

H: Good, what do you think of the implications of game theory in business?

M:这个虽然没准备,但是毕竟学过,还是应对比较自如

H: Good, now tell me is there any problem you met during your application of game theory?

M: 这个问题就难了,哥们我不是专业研究game theory 的啊,这小子跟这个干上了,当时觉得汗就要下来了,不过还是混乱说了很多,这个问题回答的比较失败

(这个时候,院长大人拿出我的research proposal)

H: I do not have any question about the model you set up, but, would you please tell me how many data you collected for this model?

M: 857。。。。。(这个问题是我很熟,毕竟自己做过的东西)

H: How have the data been collected?

M: ^&$%^%$&$(这个是非常具体的细节问题,以后phd面试的同志们一定注意,写在rp里面的东西一定要非常非常清楚)

H: Emm, good! Which kind of statistical model you used?

M: Logistic regression

H: What results have you got from it?

M:%^%$%^$%

H: If you were admitted as our phd student, what’s your plan?

M: (这个问题也是准备过的 )I don’t think the data set I get now is good enough to draw a splendid result, so I will try to …..

H: How can you get more data, from where?

M:(没想到这么细致的问题)后面几个还是关于data的,我们讨论这个问题很长时间

H: (突然话锋一转)他从来不推荐学生读phd,太苦了,说phd简直就是life changing experience,说了半天(我当时竟然开始犯困,不过突然来的一个问题我一下醒了)what is your motivation driving you pursue this degree?(原来前面说的都是铺垫,实在是晕)

M: (当时就是努力回忆自己写的ps,照大概情况说了,其中还填油加醋的)

后面因为我自己发挥,院长大人和我又有了一段关于家庭,中国对管理的认识等等的讨论,总之是有点跑题。不过院长还是院长,很快就拨乱反正了

H: Why reading?

M:(因为当时还沉浸在跑题的话题中,没有特别重视这个问题,很失策!)申请以前我做过调查,喜欢reading的环境,氛围等等(这个问题大家一定多准备,个人觉得很重要)

H: What is the most serious disadvantage of reading in your list while you were doing your research for application?

M: (这个问题听了就蒙了一下,都练习的是怎么夸reading了,没想过不好的地方啊)只好说是没觉得什么问题。(我当时的回答非常不冷静!最好以后面试前想好一些学校存在的不足,这样更说明你对学校做过细致的研究)

H: I think the main problem is we don’t have any scholar who conduct research in your area, but Dr. AAA does focus on marketing.(当时听了很失望啊, 我当时就赶紧弥补了一下)

M: I contacted with Dr.AAA, his research interests include the history of branding, rather than seting up models.

H: You are right, but we do have many people doing modeling in our department, they can help you in the future. We usually assign two supervisors to a phd student, one of them shares research interests with the student, the other may not be in the field of your research…(开始介绍学校的导师制度什么的)

M: sounds great!

H: What results are you expected to get from your further research? What implications can you get from the results?

M: (我当时就想,转了半天又回来了……)^$^$%&$%

H: great! You know what, we expect each phd student publish at least 4 papers in the three year study. One focuses on methodology you used, one….(4个论文发表,疯了!)

这个时候慈祥老奶奶突然敲门入场

H: Sorry, our meeting has to be finished before 2:45. Do you have any questions for me?

M:把自己准备的问题问了一下…………

最后就握手再见了,后来还给报销了路费和饭费 

面试一共40多分钟,专业问题问的很细致,我觉得自己准备还是不充分。个人认为要准备主要是这样几个地方:

1.        以前学过的课程

2.        PS里面的内容,最好能背下来部分重要环节,省的像我还要现回忆

3.        research proposal里面的内容。这个是最核心的,整个面试,大多数的问题都围绕这个进行

4.        对学校的综合考虑,要能说出自己为什么来这里,觉得好在什么地方,有什么问题

5.        准备几个出彩的问题,最后让对方印象深刻!

6.        心理和语言。面试不用紧张,老师都很和蔼,可以穿插些轻松话题,活跃气氛。

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