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by Rob Yeung (Author) "The job market is increasingly competitive, and many interviewers are inundated with too many applications ..." (more)
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: John Wiley & Sons (21 April 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0470019034
  • ISBN-13: 978-0470019030
  • Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 2 cm
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Written for all job hunters – new entrants, mid–level people, very experienced individuals, and technical and non–technical job seekers – Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies is packed with the building blocks for show–stopping interviews.


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Includes answers to over 200 of the toughest interview questions

Stay one step ahead of the other candidates

How do you respond to authority? What are your personal shortcomings? Passing a test is much easier when you′ve already seen the questions, right? Let master interviewer Rob Yeung brief you on the toughest interview questions and the most impressive answers. This book can get you one step ahead of the competition by making your honest answers sound great and your best answers sound honest.

Discover how to

  • Avoid clichéd answers
  • Talk positively about weaknesses
  • Dismiss interview nerves
  • Convey your unique selling points
  • Beat the psychometric test
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Good, helpful interview book, 10 Sep 2006
By m.bison (Cheshire, UK) - See all my reviews
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I found that this book gave some good answers to the "Give me an example of..." questions that crop up time and time again in interviews. The book will provide a decent script of what to say in interviews and when filling out application forms. After several interviews, giving an example of team working, organisational skills, communication skills etc will become like telling a long joke or a familiar story. The answers aren't perfect and they can be specific to a certain role, so you have to be creative and re-work the sample answers to fit into your employment/education background. Overall, though, they offer a good starting point of what employers what to hear from you in an interview.

The competencies-based chapter is a big plus with this book. Competency-based interviews are all the rage these days and a lot of interview books do not deal with them at all. Although there is only one chapter that deals with competency interviews in this book, it is one chapter more than most.

Although it may seem like it, this book won't get you a job if you are good at simply memorising lines. Until that book comes out (and I'll be first in the queue when it does), this is probably the best interview aid out there.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive guide - great interview preparation, 22 Sep 2006
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At 282 pages, this book is stuffed full of interview questions. It's funny - until I read this book, I thought I was quite good at interviews. I'm never at a loss for words and always have quite good rapport with interviewers. But now I understand that the content of what I was saying has not been as good at selling myself as it could be.

For example, the book gives advice on how to answer even seemingly straightforward stuff like "Tell me about yourself". And now that I know the 'secret', I guess I'll never go back to telling the interviewers irrelevant stuff about me.

The book actually takes quite a long time to work through. The author suggests working through it and coming up with your own interview answers. Of course the example answers in the book aren't always relevant (the author does caution about that) so you need to use the advice in the book to come up with your own answers. And that takes time.

But the book is easily navigable - lots of bullet points, contents pages, an alphabetical index of questions, chapters broken up into meaningful sections. So it's a good book to help you zero in on what you're not so good at.

Now that I've taken the time to work through the book (as opposed to simply reading it cover to cover), I can say that this is the best interview book I've come across.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Really informative - strangely amusing too, 3 Jul 2006
I bought a bunch of interview books in one go as I hadn't been on an interview for a while until recent circumstances necessitated a job hunt.

The content is excellent if you want advice on how to answer typical (and some not-so-typical) questions then this book is great.

The author presents a BBC TV programme on the topic of job hunting too so obviously a very credible source.

A+++
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