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Description: Are you nervous about a job interview?
Do you know what you might be asked and what you will say?
How can you use your answers to create a good impression?
When you prepare for an interview, it’s useful to understand how organizations decide what they are looking for in a candidate, why employers conduct interviews at all and what is likely to happen at yours.
Ultimate Interview will give you all the background information you need as well as essential practice with sample interview questions, advice and example answers. Renowned career expert Lynn Williams has taken a unique approach, organizing common interview questions into useful categories including:
• management jobs • sales and marketing jobs • clerical and administrative jobs • customer relations job • technical jobs • creative jobs • practical jobs
With helpful comments from employers and advice on psychometric tests, this book is a must-have for all serious job hunters.
Contents: 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? • 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 • Answering questions • What the interviewer will ask and what you need to tell them • Make a good impression • Three cardinal rules • Starting the interview • What to expect from the interview and how to begin confidently • Questions they ask everybody • Standard questions you should prepare for • Questions for practical jobs • Core question, “Are you reliable?” • Professional knowledge • Questions for creative jobs • Core question, “Will you deliver?” • Professional knowledge • Questions for clerical and administrative jobs • Core question, “Are you efficient?” • Professional knowledge • Questions for sales and marketing jobs • Core question, “Can you sell?” • Professional knowledge • Questions for technical jobs • Core question, “Can you do the job?” • Professional knowledge • Questions for management jobs • Core question, “Will you get results?” • Professional knowledge • Questions for customer relations jobs • Core question, “Are you customer focused?” • Professional knowledge • Questions for school and college leavers • What to do if you don’t have experience • Professional knowledge • Tackling the difficult questions • Handling questions about perceived areas of weakness • Inappropriate and illegal questions • Dealing with tricky questions • hat to say when there’s no clear answer • Dealing with critical or negative questions • Questions about salary • Answering closed questions • Answering off-the-wall questions • What is the interviewer really asking? • Questions asking you to work something out • “Psychological” Questions • Your questions for the interviewer • What to ask at the end of the interview • 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 centers • Informal interviews • Second interviews • Interview extras • Tasks and tests they might include and how to approach them • Making a presentation • Showing your portfolio • Technical and attainment tests • Physical tests • Job-replica exercises • Group exercises • Psychometric tests • Future trends • Looking the part • Making a good impression from the start • Appearance • Behavior • Overcoming nerves • 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
ISBN - 9780749464066
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Pages : 232
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