在工作中最令你感到沮喪的事是什么?
I still remember the disappointment that I had about eight years ago.
我至今還記得八年前一件令人沮喪的事。
when I first participated in bidding for a client's work.
那是我第一次參與爭(zhēng)取某客戶的投標(biāo)工作。
We were one of the last two bidders that the client considered among a handful that applied,but we lost the job to our main competitor.
我們是眾多投標(biāo)公司中僅存的最后兩家之一,但是最后我們卻輸給了最大的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手。
Our project team spent many late nights working on the bid.
我們的項(xiàng)目組為了準(zhǔn)備那次投標(biāo),好多天都工作到深夜。
Our competitor had an advantage because they had worked with that client before.
我們的競(jìng)爭(zhēng)對(duì)手之前曾承攬過(guò)那家客戶的業(yè)務(wù),所以在這點(diǎn)上占了優(yōu)勢(shì)。
It was a new client for us and I must say our competitor understood the needs of the client better.
對(duì)我們公司而言,這家客戶是新客戶,而且我不得不說(shuō),還是我們的對(duì)手更了解客戶的需求。
We were so disappointed and determined that we would get this account,
我們非常沮喪,并且決定一定要爭(zhēng)取到這家客戶,
so we analyzed what went wrong and the client's mission,market and needs,as well as looked at what our competitor did right.
于是我們針對(duì)到底哪里出了問(wèn)題,對(duì)手做的好的地方,甚至對(duì)客戶的宗旨,市場(chǎng),需求全部做了分析。
About six months later,we had another opportunity to bid for the same client's job,and we got it.
大約半年過(guò)后,又有一次可以爭(zhēng)取這家客戶的投標(biāo)機(jī)會(huì),我們中標(biāo)了。
We were very proud of it.
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account 顧客,客戶
what went wrong 發(fā)生問(wèn)題之處
go wrong 表示“出現(xiàn)問(wèn)題,遇到困難”
要具體舉例說(shuō)明感到沮喪的事,但是最后還是要強(qiáng)調(diào)從該事情中學(xué)到了什么,如何重新站起來(lái)了等積極的方面。
Have you ever had any failures?
你有過(guò)失敗的經(jīng)歷嗎?
What have been the biggest failures in your career?
在你的職業(yè)生涯中,最大的失敗是什么?
What have you learned from your mistakes?
你從錯(cuò)誤中學(xué)到了什么?