在工作中最令你感到沮喪的事是什么?
[00:06.27]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。
[00:10.31]when I first participated in bidding for a client's work.
那是我第一次參與爭取某客戶的投標工作。
[00:14.34]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爭對手。
[00:23.24]Our project team spent many late nights working on the bid.
我們的項目組為了準備那次投標,好多天都工作到深夜。
[00:27.25]Our competitor had an advantage because they had worked with that client before.
我們的競爭對手之前曾承攬過那家客戶的業(yè)務(wù),所以在這點上占了優(yōu)勢。
[00:32.29]It was a new client for us and I must say our competitor understood the needs of the client better.
對我們公司而言,這家客戶是新客戶,而且我不得不說,還是我們的對手更了解客戶的需求。
[00:39.15]We were so disappointed and determined that we would get this account,
我們非常沮喪,并且決定一定要爭取到這家客戶,
[00:44.25]so we analyzed what went wrong and the client's mission,market and needs,as well as looked at what our competitor did right.
于是我們針對到底哪里出了問題,對手做的好的地方,甚至對客戶的宗旨,市場,需求全部做了分析。
[00:53.10]About six months later,we had another opportunity to bid for the same client's job,and we got it.
大約半年過后,又有一次可以爭取這家客戶的投標機會,我們中標了。
[01:00.02]We were very proud of it.
我們?yōu)榇烁械椒浅W院馈?/p>