Reported by: TAO Danmei
Photographed by: SHI Hongjie, ZHAO Jinxiang
Translated by: REN Shuman
Edited by: Jennifer Taylor
Recently, HIT museum’s article Training Elite Team of Students’ Guides, Enhancing Guides’ Level was awarded the first prize in the Excellent Talent Cultivation Project of 2013, selected by the National University Museum’s Talent Cultivation Alliance.
Since the opening of the HIT Museum in 2010, there have been 8 teams of guide teams which are mainly made up of graduate students. HIT museum has trained 332 student interpreters with different languages, including Chinese, English, Russian, Japanese, Korean. The number of visitors to the HIT Museum is up to 60 thousand. There have been 1845 visiting groups and 2711 times of interpretation with different languages. The HIT museum has trained each student strictly in their dress, etiquette and style. At the same time, it has established a scientific management system and an effective evaluation mechanism when new interpreters are employed. Applicants spend 3 weeks reciting articles and will only be hired after passing the preliminary test, retest and three rounds of interviews. They will have improved their team cooperation ability and communication skills through this process. Students guides win praise from visitors for their attitude to work and communication skills. The students consider this work as a precious opportunity and working in museum has been their second class.
