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Reviews: "The best book on job-hunting"
- Financial Times
Description: Great Answers to Tough interview Questions is the best-selling job-hunting book of all time and the essential companion for all job seekers. It takes you through the whole process, from composing your CV and preparing for interviews, to interview techniques, answering tough questions and even negotiating your salary.
This fully revised new edition now contains sample psychometric test questions and includes tips for job-hunting on the Internet. You`ll also find plenty of examples of the tough questions that interviewers love to throw at you, such as
· Why should I give you the job?
· What are your outstanding qualities?
· Why do you want to work here?
· What is your greatest strength?
· What is your biggest weakness ?
· How much money do you want?
· How long would you stay with the company
With the best answers to these and many more, Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions is suitable for anyone at any stage in his or her career providing all the guidance you need to land your dream job. An indispensable guide that blows the competition away, no serious job-hunter can afford to ignore it.
"An essential guide for the modern job seeker"
- Evening Standard
"A good investment...a comprehensive guide to the various ways of hunting jobs down, as well as how to make the right impression with employers."
- Daily Mirror
"Includes the thinking behind over two hundred tough interview questions and effective ways to answer them. The ultimate job hunter`s guide."
- Pathfinder
"Some excellent tips on how to answer potential clangers."
- Cosmopolitan
Contents: Acknowledgements ¢ Introduction ¢ Part I The Well-Stocked Briefcase ¢ The realities of job hunting ¢ All things to all people ¢ Networking and the successful job search ¢ More effective job search tactics ¢ Part II Getting to Square One ¢ Making contact ¢ The telephone interview ¢ Dressing for interview success ¢ Body language ¢ The curtain goes up on the job interview ¢ Part III Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions ¢ The five secrets of securing a job offer ¢ How to knock ˜em dead ¢ ˜What kind of person are you really, Mr Jones?` ¢ The other side of the desk ¢ The stress interview ¢ Welcome to the real world ¢ The graceful exit ¢ Part IV Finishing Touches ¢ Out of sight, out of mind? ¢ Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat ¢ Negotiating the offer ¢ Multiple interviews, multiple offers ¢ Conclusion: the glittering prizes ¢ Appendix: psychometric tests ¢ Further reading from Kogan Page ¢ Index to the questions
About the Author: Martin John Yate is an internationally best-selling author. He has held major posts as a director of training and personnel for several international companies, and is widely respected as the expert on all career matters. He is also the author of The Ultimate CV Book and The Ultimate Job Search Letters Book (both published by Kogan Page).
Target Audience: Job Hunters
Special prices are applicable to the authorised sales territory only.
Prices are subject to change without prior notice. ISBN 9788175544413
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Pages : 318
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