- Paperback: 208 pages
- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional (1 Sep 1996)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 007016357X
- ISBN-13: 978-0070163577
- Product Dimensions: 22.6 x 15 x 1.4 cm
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"Why did you leave your last job? What did you do on your last vacation? Describe a typical day at your present office. Where do you see yourself in five years?" All job seekers face a barrage of questions: some easy, others tricky, each one designed to elicit key information. How can interviewees come up with quick, convincing, on-the-mark responses? It's easy - by studying the 201 proven answers and approaches in this handy reference guide. Written by an expert who knows both sides of the personnel desk, this job interview bible is packed with useful tips on turning possible negative responses into positives. It's organized for easy accessibility, covering such categories as personal questions, "curve balls," stress producers, illegal queries, and many more. First-timers and seasoned job seekers alike will find no better crash course on winning the interview game.
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Matthew J. DeLuca is president of Management Resource Group, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in professional placement, training, and outplacement. He is also director of Human Resources for Titan Sports, Inc. He has written several books for job seekers, and he conducts frequent workshops on careers for several universities.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book contains a comprehensive list of potential interview questions, but a lack of coherent structure makes this rather confusing. In addition, the book is geared very much towards the American job market, and many of its recommendations are not really applicable to job seekers in the UK.
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This book is an excellent guide for anyone who is nervous about interview questions. It guides you on what and what not to say, communication tips, illegal questions that you shouldn't have to answer, but may have to, behavior questions (how are your people skills?), stress questions (can you take the heat?), and what questions you should ask.
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Although there is a newer version of this book, there is much about THIS version that I have found very useful. As many readers may already know, there are many books written on the subject of interviewing preparing for a job interview. A number of them are very wordy, detailed, a little too much of a particular theme than simply, concisely coming up with the BEST answers to the most frequently asked interview questions. This book gets right to the point.
I particularly liked what the author states in Chapter 1 Introduction: "Remember: the best candidates don't necessarily get the job: the best interviewee does." This is so true and is reinforced in a number of different sources including the DVD INTERVIEW THE BEST. You can have all the education in the world, reams of experience, tons of skill but unless you are well prepared and skillful in answering anticipated questions you may find yourself faltering.
Some of the first suggestions the author makes are contained in Chapter 4 Knowing the Job, the Organization and Your Interviewer:What Are You Getting Yourself Into? Starting with Chapter 5 Small Talk Questions:Breaking the Ice, the author starts to pose possible questions an interviewer might make including WHY they might be asking them. I like a major tip the author makes here: "Avoid Controversial Topics at All Costs." Chapter 6 Personal Questions gives you actual descriptive words you might use when asked the question: "How would you describe your own personality?"
Chapters 7 Educational Questions and 8 Experience Questions are followed by recommendations made to the reader on "How to Be a Lifelong Learner" and how to "Show You Are a 'Can Do' Candidate".
As someone used to the "old school" form of interviewing, the change to behavioral or stress interviewing has proven to be something more challenging. Questions like "Describe a situation where the team fell apart. What was your role in the outcome?", "Describe a situation where you failed to reach a goal." or"Describe a situation where you had a personal committment that conflicted with an emergency business meeting. What did you do?" can all be seen by some as possibly problematic. These, along with the questions posed in Chapter 10 Stress Questions, necessitate more careful preparation than that which may have been required in past years when jobs were more plentiful. Here possible answers are posed to such questions as "What are some of the things that bother/bothered you about your current/last job?", "What reservations do you have about working here?" and "Have you ever had difficulty getting along with others?"
Chapter 12 Illegal Questions cannot and should not be overlooked. The author makes a distinction between illegal and inappropriate Questions. He also advises the potential interviewee What to Say When Asked an Illegal or Inappropriate Question including Gender Bias Questions, National Origin Questions, Questions Suggesting Religious Bias, Age Bias Questions and Questions Addressing the Disabled.
Finally, Chaper 13 Your Turn:Questions You Should Raise is perhaps my favorite chapter. Here a long list of Questions to Ask Potential Employers is proposed which I found extremely helpful. The book is concluded with Chapter 14 Summing Up. All in all I would highly recommend this book to anyone prepare to effectively interview for their next job.
I particularly liked what the author states in Chapter 1 Introduction: "Remember: the best candidates don't necessarily get the job: the best interviewee does." This is so true and is reinforced in a number of different sources including the DVD INTERVIEW THE BEST. You can have all the education in the world, reams of experience, tons of skill but unless you are well prepared and skillful in answering anticipated questions you may find yourself faltering.
Some of the first suggestions the author makes are contained in Chapter 4 Knowing the Job, the Organization and Your Interviewer:What Are You Getting Yourself Into? Starting with Chapter 5 Small Talk Questions:Breaking the Ice, the author starts to pose possible questions an interviewer might make including WHY they might be asking them. I like a major tip the author makes here: "Avoid Controversial Topics at All Costs." Chapter 6 Personal Questions gives you actual descriptive words you might use when asked the question: "How would you describe your own personality?"
Chapters 7 Educational Questions and 8 Experience Questions are followed by recommendations made to the reader on "How to Be a Lifelong Learner" and how to "Show You Are a 'Can Do' Candidate".
As someone used to the "old school" form of interviewing, the change to behavioral or stress interviewing has proven to be something more challenging. Questions like "Describe a situation where the team fell apart. What was your role in the outcome?", "Describe a situation where you failed to reach a goal." or"Describe a situation where you had a personal committment that conflicted with an emergency business meeting. What did you do?" can all be seen by some as possibly problematic. These, along with the questions posed in Chapter 10 Stress Questions, necessitate more careful preparation than that which may have been required in past years when jobs were more plentiful. Here possible answers are posed to such questions as "What are some of the things that bother/bothered you about your current/last job?", "What reservations do you have about working here?" and "Have you ever had difficulty getting along with others?"
Chapter 12 Illegal Questions cannot and should not be overlooked. The author makes a distinction between illegal and inappropriate Questions. He also advises the potential interviewee What to Say When Asked an Illegal or Inappropriate Question including Gender Bias Questions, National Origin Questions, Questions Suggesting Religious Bias, Age Bias Questions and Questions Addressing the Disabled.
Finally, Chaper 13 Your Turn:Questions You Should Raise is perhaps my favorite chapter. Here a long list of Questions to Ask Potential Employers is proposed which I found extremely helpful. The book is concluded with Chapter 14 Summing Up. All in all I would highly recommend this book to anyone prepare to effectively interview for their next job.
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Interviewers are now using such structured methods of conducting interviews, that Interviewees need to play the game as well and prepare for the obvious questions. Read more
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