Why does they say "Given the investment" in "Given the investment our company will make in hiring and trani"
Hello.
I'm preparing English job interview .
today , I faced with this sentence "Given the investment our company will make in hiring and traning you, can you give us a reason to hire you ?"

I couldn't understand the sentence because I have no idea about the main verb in this sentence.
does it means "It is a investment that our company will make in hiring and training you", right ?
If so , Why does they use "Given the investment" in the head of the sentence ?

If it's possible, please teach me structure of the sentence and meaning of the sentence in detail.

plz help!

Question

Why does they say "Given the investment"  in "Given the investment our company will make in hiring and trani"
Hello.
I'm preparing English job interview . 
today , I faced with this sentence "Given the investment our company will make in hiring and traning you, can you give us a reason to hire you ?"

I couldn't understand the sentence because I have no idea about the main verb in this sentence.
does it means "It is a investment that our company will make in hiring and training you", right ?
If so , Why does they use "Given the investment" in the head of the sentence ?

If it's possible, please teach me structure of the sentence and meaning of the sentence in detail.

plz help!

Answer

"Given the investment our company will make in hiring and training you, can you give us a reason to hire you ?" could be rephrased as "Since our company will have to invest time and money to hire and train you, can you give us a reason to hire you?"  They want to know why you think hiring you will be worth their initial investment of the time and money that it will take to hire you and give you a salary.

In that sentence structure, "given" functions as a preposition that means "in view of" or "considering".

Answer

Ni hao ,
This structure 
Given ----- so and so ------
Means in any other context than your above mentioned: 
With the condition of , Provided that , As .
Examples:
Given the salary we pay , you have to work very hard .
Given the effort you did , we have to compensate you generously .

Answer

It means

That you must take it as a given thing (i.e. - the condition has been or will be met) 

or "Take it as read that ..." would be a more colloquial way of putting it

so it means 

If you take it for granted that our company invests or will invest in hiring and training ...

This would usually be followed by a question such as ... "Can you give us a reason to hire you?" or 

"Would you like to work for us?"

(as explained very well above - they are telling you what they offer - what will you offer in return?

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