During Yang Lan's career in 1995, she worked alone in a foreign country. At that time, she interviewed many companies. Even though her grades are outstanding and her strength is outstanding, she is frustrated in interviews again and again. Some interviewers even admitted that "your image doesn't match your resume", so they refused to continue asking questions to Yang Lan. What makes Yang Lan feel that it never rains but it pours is that her foreign landlord Salina is an extremely demanding middle-aged woman. She made it a rule for Yang Lan that she must turn off the lights and go to bed before twelve o'clock every day, and come out of the bathhouse within ten minutes. Otherwise, she is forbidden to enter her living room, to cook Chinese food in her beautiful kitchen, and even to wear lipstick when guests visit.
As a China woman, Yang Lan is used to the idea that simplicity is beauty, and she is tired of Salina's dignity as a so-called British woman. Once, after washing her hair, she sat on the bed reading the recruitment information in the newspaper and eating the bread rolls she brought back, which was completely against the rules. After seeing it, Selina rushed forward directly, grabbed Yang Lan's bread and newspaper, and shouted in English, "You China girl with no essence! Get out of my house! " Angry Yang Lan made a dash for the door and rushed into a cafe.
After entering the cafe, the servant of the cafe led her to an empty seat with strange eyes and pajamas, which was the only empty seat in the cafe. Sitting opposite Yang Lan is an old English lady. She looks more exquisite than selena, as noble and exquisite as Queen Elizabeth.
As a well-known hostess in China, Yang Lan's Taifu is well known to all ages. She was the winner of the first Golden Microphone Award, interviewed thousands of international dignitaries and people from all walks of life, and was also named one of the most influential women in the world 100 by Forbes. Yang Lan can achieve this result because of her superb professionalism and superb questioning ability. As she said in the book Question: "In the process of 30 years of media work experience and 22 years of making Interview with Yang Lan, asking questions has not only become my profession, but even a way of life." Asking questions has become an indispensable part of Yang Lan's homework and a habit. It is precisely because she knows how to think and ask questions that she constantly promotes her career and changes her role, from variety show manager to secret producer, and then to be the "big sister" in the interview industry.
Summarizing the launch of Interview with Yang Lan, which was presided over by Yang Lan, opened a new era of talk shows in China TV history, and it was the earliest and longest-running high-end talk show in China. In order to do a good job in this interview program, Yang Lan has done a lot of homework, among which the preparation before the interview and the control during the interview are analyzed in detail in two parts. For example, it is very important to prepare homework before asking questions. Yang Lan simply did some homework before each interview, and read books and materials with an average of 10 to 200,000 words each time to ensure a basic understanding of the interviewees and the professional fields in other places.
In addition to understanding the information of the interviewee and studying their stories, experiences and personalities, the most difficult thing is to understand all kinds of knowledge of the interviewee's related majors across disciplines, so that they can communicate at the same level during the interview. Another example is that the interview has been conducted, but the interviewee deviated from the track in the process of answering questions and stated something completely different from his expectations. As the person in charge, how to change the scene, that is, interrupt the other party, change the topic at the right time or pull the topic back to the established track, and so on.