|
301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions | 
| Author: Vicky Oliver
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Category: Book
List Price: $12.95
Buy New: $10.36
You Save: $2.59 (20%)
Rating:  39 reviews
Sales Rank: 5501
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 384
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 7.9 x 6 x 1
ISBN: 1402203853
Dewey Decimal Number: 650.144
UPC: 760789209529
EAN: 9781402203855
Publication Date: May 1, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1 to 3 weeks
|
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions is packed full of the toughest interview questions and the savvy answers that today's managers are looking for. While many interview books still focus on "What are your strengths?" and "What are your weaknesses?" 301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions is the definitive guide to the real-and sometimes quirky-questions employers are using to weed out candidates. What are the best answers to: - From your résumé it looks like you were fired twice. How did that make you feel? - Do you know who painted this work of art? - What is the best-managed company in America? - If you could be any product in the world, what would you choose? - How many cigars are smoked in a year? - Are you a better visionary or implementer? Why?
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 34 more reviews...
 Infuriatingly narrow focus August 12, 2006
26 out of 33 found this review helpful
Vicky Oliver is a woman, lives in New York, and works in the advertising industry. Nothing wrong with any of that, except that she tends to forget that not everyone is exactly like her. The result of this is that if, like me, you are a man, live in South Carolina, and borrowed this book from your local library in order to prepare for an interview for an administrative position with the state Highway Patrol, much of the book might as well have been written in Chinese. Good for urban professional women seeking executive positions, but of limited use to anyone else.
 Good reading before going into an interview July 18, 2005
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
Now, we all know that after the interview we all come up with what we could have, and should have said. This book makes it easy to answer questions the right way. One theme this book really presses is "never unsell yourself". When given questions that you have the opportunity to show negative qualities, or situations that didn't turn out well, Vicky Oliver gives you ideas on how to work around these questions.
Sometimes interviewers do a poor job, and may ask leading questions that area against EEOC laws. Once again Oliver has you stay on target and guide your answers to what is job related. She will often have a question, the good answer, and then ways you can add to the good answer to make it more personal.
If you are going on a job interview, this book may be one that you want browse through simply to get a bit of a refresher. She lays these questions out in non-threatening ways, and gives you strategies in how to work around them. I like the central theme "do not unsell yourself". This insight alone may help you pause long enough to get the right answer out of your mouth before something that may knock you out of the potential hire pool.
 301 answers to tough interview questions January 13, 2006
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
i really enjoyed this book for the simple fact that it actually mentioned some new tricks instead of the same old ones, and it reiterated some old standbys that we all forget after time. there is a lot of good (un)common sense to it, for new comers and seasoned alike. as a recruiter myself, i would love it if everyone of my candidates would read this before coming to me, it would certainly impress me if they came up with just some of the answers in this book!
How To Get Out of What Your Parents Wanted (for You) January 19, 2006
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
A second career attorney, I was looking to transition out of law and back into a pre-law interest. Needless to say, despite my skills, talent, and having been around the block several times, I guess I must have slept through Interviewing 101. Vicky's book and semininar enabled me to hone in on producing a better resume, turn supposed "quirks & weaknesses" into strengths, answer difficult interview questions, and basically, duh, remember who I was. She helped me nail the job, and frankly, I haven't been so happy in ages.
As witty as it is useful! May 27, 2005
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Facing a tough interview? Been out of the job market for a while? Vicky Oliver has 301 smart answers for you.
This book is the job seeker's equivalent of MAPQUEST. Better, it's like an SAT prep course for interviewees.
Practical, thoughtful, thorough -- and fun!
|
|
|
|
Copyright 2008 BetterEditor.net
| |
