Ultimate Interview: Master the Art of Interview Success with 100s of Typical, Unusual and Industry-Specific Questions and Answers, Fifth edition
- 3h 59m
- Lynn Williams
- Kogan Page
- 2018
Are you preparing for an upcoming interview? Are you nervous about making a good impression or want to practise for difficult questions? From the bestselling Ultimate series, Ultimate Interview will give you all the guidance you need when preparing to ace the interview for your dream job. Renowned careers expert, Lynn Williams, will give you the edge on: understanding your interviewer and what they are looking for, highlighting the evidence that you are the perfect candidate through skills and industry knowledge, standing out from the competition, answering questions professionally, navigating the beginning of the interview, coping with difficult questions, dealing with off-the-wall questions, looking the part and knowing how to behave in telephone, video, panel and assessment centre interviews.
Ultimate Interview, now in its 5th edition, is a must-have for all serious job-seekers. It contains 100s of sample interview questions, with answer examples, tailored by industry experts to give you a personalized resource. It covers jobs in management, sales and marketing, administration, customer relations, technical industries, practical industries and creative industries.
About the series: The Ultimate series contains practical advice on essential job search skills to give you the best chance of getting the job you want. Taking you all the way from starting your job search to completing an interview, it includes guidance on CV or résumé and cover letter writing, practice questions for passing aptitude, psychometric and other employment tests, and reliable advice for interviewing.
About the Author
Lynn Williams is a career counsellor and trainer who runs workshops on CV writing and interview techniques. She writes regularly for a wide range of publications on job search and career issues and is also the author of Ultimate Job Search, Readymade CVs and Readymade Job Search Letters (all published by Kogan Page).
In this Book
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Introduction
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Know Your Enemy—Understanding Interviewers
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Prepare Yourself—What You Need to Know before the Interview
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Standing Out—How to Be an Outstanding Candidate
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Answering Questions—What the Interviewer Will Ask and What You Need to Tell Them
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Starting the Interview—What to Expect from the Interview and How to Begin Confidently
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Questions They Ask Everybody—Standard Questions You Should Prepare for
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Behavioural Questions—Some Questions Dig Deeper than others
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Questions for Practical Jobs—Core Question—‘Are You Reliable?’
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Questions for Creative Jobs—Core Question—‘Will You Deliver?’
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Questions for Clerical and Administrative Jobs—Core Question—‘Are You Efficient?’
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Questions for Sales and Marketing Jobs—Core Question—‘Can You Sell?’
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Questions for Technical Jobs—Core Question—‘Can You Do the Job?’
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Questions for Management Jobs—Core Question—‘Will You Get Results?’
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Questions for Customer Relations Jobs—Core Question—‘Are You Customer Focused?’
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Questions for School and College Leavers—What to Do if You Don't Have Experience
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Tackling the Difficult Questions—Handling Questions about Perceived Areas of Weakness
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Dealing with Tricky Questions—What to Say When There'w No Clear Answer
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Answering Off-The-Wall Questions—What is the Interviewer Really Asking?
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Your Questions for the Interviewer—What to Ask at the Endof the Interview
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Variations on the Theme—Different Types of Interview and How to Deal with Them Confidently
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The Interview—Future Trends—Tasks and Tests That are Already in Use and How to Prepare for Them
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Looking the Part—Making a Good Impression from the Start
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What Happens Next?—What to Do after the Interview
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Interviews in a Nutshell—The Three Essential Questions You Need to Know about
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Index to the Questions
