Ultimate Interview: Make a Great Impression and Get that Job

✍ Scribed by Lynn Williams

Year: 2008
Tongue: English
Leaves: 224
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

'Ultimate Interview' organises common interview questions according to specific job types, so that candidates can focus on the questions most relevant to their situation.

✦ Table of Contents

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Table of contents
Introduction
1. Know your enemy
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 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. Answering questions
Make a good impression
Three cardinal rules
4. Starting the interview
5. Questions they ask everybody
6. Questions for practical jobs
Professional knowledge
7. Questions for creative jobs
Professional knowledge
8. Questions for clerical and administrative jobs
Professional knowledge
9. Questions for sales and marketing jobs
Professional knowledge
10. Questions for technical jobs
Professional knowledge
11. Questions for management jobs
Professional knowledge
12. Questions for customer relations jobs
Professional knowledge
13. Questions for school and college leavers
Professional knowledge
14. Tackling the difficult questions
Inappropriate and illegal questions
15. Dealing with tricky questions
Dealing with critical or negative questions
Questions about salary
Answering closed questions
16. Your questions for the interviewer
17. Variations on the theme
Screening interviews
Telephone interviews
Video interviews
Panel interviews
Serial interviews
Assessment centres
Informal interviews
Second interviews
18. Interview extras
Making a presentation
Showing your portfolio
Technical and attainment tests
Physical tests
Job-replica exercises
Group exercises
Psychometric tests
Future trends
19. Looking the part
Appearance
Behaviour
Overcoming nerves
20. What happens next?
While you’re waiting for their decision
If they don’t make you an offer
If they do make you an offer
Further reading fromKogan Page
Index to the questions
Index

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