阿斯頓大學(xué)PhD Management/Marketing面試經(jīng)歷

我是一名大四學(xué)生，申請(qǐng)了阿斯頓大學(xué)PhD Management/Marketing，近期被要求面試，現(xiàn)將面試經(jīng)歷分享如下！

今天中午天氣不怎么樣，陰著天，給人比較郁悶的感覺。

這樣的爛天氣果然不是什么好兆頭，結(jié)果我竟然看錯(cuò)了學(xué)校給我的時(shí)間，晚了一個(gè)小時(shí)，于是，今天就是一個(gè)短會(huì)面了，周四還要再談一次。

ASTON的Marketing Group占了b-school 2nd floor一半的面積，而我要見的老師的辦公室在最里面。我是走過了3道門才找到，曲徑通幽啊！

不過，同時(shí)發(fā)現(xiàn)這個(gè)group就有4個(gè)prof.看起來還是有點(diǎn)實(shí)力的。

因?yàn)橹雷约和砹耍?，也就沒什么心情觀光，直接敲門進(jìn)了professor的辦公室。

M (Me-Rodmace) P (Professor)

M: I am terribly sorry, I am late. I thought our meeting….

P: Never mind, that’s not a problem. Please have a seat.

P: The purpose of our meeting is to make sure that you are the person I want to cooperate with and I am the right person to you. Otherwise, PhD study would be miserable for both students and supervisors. (Laugh…)

M: That is absolutely right…

P: I normally do not take any new PhD student. You know, as the head, I have to spend much time on admin and meetings. Because your proposal shows exactly what I would like to conduct, I consider you as my PhD student. （好象先讓我知道機(jī)會(huì)難得）

P: What is your career perspective?

M: To be a professor probably.

P: That’s great. That’s what we are aiming at. Some students want to work in the industry in the future so they do not spend enough time on producing quality papers…然后就說了，希望我能寫幾個(gè)不錯(cuò)的論文發(fā)表，他可以做第二作者。然后說了supervisor和student之間應(yīng)該是mutual beneficial.(Laugh…)

M: Of course. I totally agree…

P: Good. Let me tell you what you will do during your PhD study. Firstly, you will enroll as a master student. During the first year, you will…..然后就是把整個(gè)的structure給我講了一遍.

M: Sounds interesting. So I will be registered as a master student first?

P: Yes. But the first year is very important… At the end of the first year, you need to hand in a formal proposal which will be evaluated by the committee. If you pass it, you would start your 2nd year research. Our system is like the US one. At the end of the year, you will clearly know what you want and be prepared from theory, data, and analysis aspects.

M: How long can I get a PhD degree based on this new route system?

P: 3 years in total. My part time student can finish his research within 3 years, so I believe as a full time student you can get your degree in 3 years.

P: 開始夸ASTON，說了很多牛人，還有學(xué)校和業(yè)界的聯(lián)系，總之，就是說ASTON絕對(duì)牛， 然后說了，your proposal is an interesting and good start, but need to…. That is the reason why we provide all of our PhD students a year to prepare their formal proposals.

M: During my preliminary research in LSE, data collecting was a problem. My concern is about the data collection. Should I do it by myself?

P: You do not need to do the survey and collect the data….

M: It’s time consuming.

P: Right…

M: I mean whether Aston can help me to get enough data set from the companies…

P: That’s not a problem at all. We have lots of connections…a lot of data available. We can offer those companies free analysis and they have no reason to refuse. For me, I am currently doing…

P: We have lots of modelers. XXX and DDD are leading the research group. I am the head so I do not have enough time to lead this group. I noticed that you want to be modeler as well, right?

M: Yes.

P: Great! MMM and EEE are focusing their models based on Time Series, which is on the leading edge of marketing research. Maybe you can do that in your future research as well. You math is good, right?

M: I have confidence on my math.

P: That is good. I know that Chinese students are good at math not like those students from Europe. (Laugh…)

P: I already told you our structure and content. Simple and direct. (Laugh…)

M: （我就不明白他笑什么，于是和他一起傻笑…）

這個(gè)時(shí)候秘書進(jìn)來了，說該去開會(huì)了（估計(jì)她看到我們?cè)谶@里傻笑很可笑，于是也笑起來…）

而后我們就簡(jiǎn)單的說了點(diǎn)別的，就告別，并約好周四再聊。不過，老頭說了，下周讓我把已經(jīng)做的研究仔細(xì)給他講一講，然后又笑著跟我說，別再搞錯(cuò)時(shí)間??！

整個(gè)見面20分鐘多點(diǎn)，感覺就是老頭對(duì)Aston宣傳的presentation一樣，我?guī)缀鯖]怎么說話，就聽老頭一個(gè)人說了。老頭人很好，非?？蓯?！至少我對(duì)他還比較滿意。不過，錢這個(gè)問題還是沒來得及談，只能下次見面再說了。