第十二部分：很难回答的问题
问：告诉我，你最不喜欢的经理或者教授是哪种。?
答：嗯，从经理的角度来讲，我十分幸运。我与我的教授们没什么节日。我走出大学校门的第一份工作是和一个难相处的经理一块工作。倘若你走进他办公室向他请教，他会感到你在打扰他工作。所以，大家反而掌握了互相帮助。我并非说我非常不喜欢他，由于在方方面面，他的确是个好经理，但我却宁可他和大家多接近并给予大家更多的指点。?
回答这个问题有点像穿越布满地雷的雷区一样，所以要当心！记住面试官并非想知道你以前的上司，他或她想知道的是你对他们的评价。虽然面试官或许会引诱你去批评你以前的上司，但如此做会产生很多问题。尽管你的说法是完全真实和公平的，但面试官会觉得你要么是与其他人相处得不好，要么就是纯粹在指责其他人。在这种困境中最好的解决方案就是选择一个并不太反面的例子，简单地提及它，然后，把回答的重点放在你从这类历程中学到了什么。
?Q:Tell me about your least?favorite manager or professor.
A:Well, I?ve been pretty fortunate as far as managers go, and I didn?t have any problems with my professors. In my first job out of college I worked with a manager who was pretty inaccessible1. If you walked into his office to ask a question, you got the sense that you were bothering him, so we just learned to get help from each other instead. I wouldn't say he was my least?favorite manager, because he was a good manager in a lot of ways, but I would have preferred that he'd made himself more available to us and given us more direction.?
问：你遇见过的雇主中，哪个最严厉，为何？?
答：那该是富兰克林协会的汉森女性了。当忙碌的时候，她会把人推向极限，而且她对细节需要严格。但她一直非常公正，并且会奖励工作做得好、勤劳的人。她是一个严格的老板，但也是一个好老板。
再一次提醒你，无论怎么样你也要防止对你前女友的老板作任何否定的评价。像这位面试者那样，绕过问题，回答积极乐观的一面。??
Q:Who's the toughest employer you?ve ever had, and why?
A:That would be Ms. Henson at Franklin Associates. She'd push people to their limits when things got busy, and she was a stickler2 for detail. But she was always fair, and she rewarded good, hard work. I'd call her a tough boss, but a good boss.? ?
问：你是怎么样处置与老板之间的紧张关系的？?
答：我惟一感到的紧张那次就是大家都非常忙碌，以致于没办法互相知道他们的状况。我的老板不了解我正与另一位客户因某些问题而纠缠不清，需要我在短期内完成很多的工作。我坚信职员会议的重要程度，同事间应知道并尊重相互之间的时间需要。?
在这里，最安全的做法就是举一个例子，说明你与你的老板产生误会时，你是怎么样去解决的。面试官想知道你是如何防止类似的问题第三发生的。??
Q:How do you handle tension with your boss?
A:The only tension I?ve ever felt was once when we both got too busy to keep each other informed.My boss overcommitted me with a short deadline,not knowing that I was bogged3 down with another client problem.I believe firmly in the importance of staff meetings so that coworkers can respect the demands on each other's time.