Ultimate interview : master the art of interview success with 100s of typical, unusual and industry-specific questions and answers /
In preparing for an interview, it's useful to understand what organizations are looking for in a candidate. Ultimate Interview offers insight into how employers decide what they are looking for in a job candidate, how they use this to draw up the questions, how selection procedures work, why em...
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| Language: | English |
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London :
Kogan Page,
2018.
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| Edition: | 5th ed. |
| Series: | The Ultimate series
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Know your enemy
- Understanding interviewers
- What do they want?
- What sort of things are they looking for?
- What will happen at the interview?
- What sort of questions will they ask?
- How do they know what they're looking for?
- 2. Prepare yourself
- What you need to know before the interview
- What should you prepare?
- Exhibit 1 Evidence that you meet their needs
- Exhibit 2 Reassuring answers and explanations
- Exhibit 3 Industry knowledge
- Exhibit 4 The reasons you want this job
- 3. Standing out
- How to be an outstanding candidate
- Why are these qualities so important?
- 4. Answering questions
- What the interviewer will ask and what you need to tell them
- Make a good impression
- Three cardinal rules
- 5. Starting the interview
- What to expect from the interview and how to begin confidently
- 6. Questions they ask everybody
- Standard questions you should prepare for
- 7. Behavioural questions
- Some questions dig deeper than others
- What are the important points?
- 8. Questions for practical jobs
- Core question, 'Are you reliable?'
- Professional knowledge
- 9. Questions for creative jobs
- Core question, 'Will you deliver'
- Professional knowledge
- 10. Questions for clerical and administrative jobs
- Core question, 'Are you efficient?'
- Professional knowledge
- 11. Questions for sales and marketing jobs
- Core question, 'Can you sell?'
- Professional knowledge
- 12. Questions for technical jobs
- Core question, 'Can you do the job?'
- Professional knowledge
- 13. Questions for management jobs
- Core question, 'Will you get results?'
- Professional knowledge
- 14. Questions for customer relations jobs
- Core question, 'Are you customer focused?'
- Professional knowledge
- 15. Questions for school and college leavers jobs
- Core question, 'What to do if you don't have experience'
- Transferable skills
- Professional knowledge
- 16. Tackling the difficult questions
- Handling questions about perceived areas of weakness
- Inappropriate and illegal questions
- 17. Dealing with tricky questions
- What to say when there's no clear answer
- Dealing with critical or negative questions
- questions about salary
- Answering closed questions
- 18. Answering off-the-wall questions
- What is the interviewer really asking
- Questions asking you to work something out
- 'Psychological' questions
- 19. Your questions for the interviewer
- What to ask at the end of the interview
- 20. Variations on the theme
- Different types of interview and how to deal with them confidently
- Screening interviews
- Telephone interviews
- Video interviews
- Panel interviews
- Serial interviews
- Assessment centres
- Informal interviews
- Second interviews
- 21. The interview: future trends
- Tasks and tests that are already in use and how to prepare for them
- The interview
- future trends
- Making a presentation
- Showing your portfolio
- Technical and attainsment tests
- Physical tests
- Job-replica exercises
- Group exercises
- Psychometric tests
- Future possibilities
- 22. Looking the part
- Making a good impression from the start
- appearance
- Behavior
- Overcoming nerves
- 23. What happens next?
- What to do after the interview
- While you're waiting for their decision
- If they don't make you an offer
- If they do make you an offer
- 24. Interviews in a nutshell
- The three essential questions you need to know about
- Can you do the job?
- Will you do the job?
- Will you fit in?