Product Description

Written for all job hunters – new entrants, mid–level people, very experienced individuals, and technical and non–technical job seekers – Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies is packed with the building blocks for show–stopping interviews.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #52879 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-21
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 304 pages

From the Back Cover
Includes answers to over 200 of the toughest interview questions

Stay one step ahead of the other candidates

How do you respond to authority? What are your personal shortcomings? Passing a test is much easier when you′ve already seen the questions, right? Let master interviewer Rob Yeung brief you on the toughest interview questions and the most impressive answers. This book can get you one step ahead of the competition by making your honest answers sound great and your best answers sound honest.

Discover how to

• Avoid clichéd answers
• Talk positively about weaknesses
• Dismiss interview nerves
• Convey your unique selling points
• Beat the psychometric test

About the Author
Dr Rob Yeung is a director at business psychology consultancy Talentspace, where he specialises in management assessment – training interviewers, designing assessment centres, and interviewing candidates on behalf of employers. He also tries to set aside time to coach individual job hunters on interview technique. He has interviewed candidates for jobs ranging from customer service staff to managing directors across industries as varied as banking, technology, law, accountancy, airlines, and advertising and media.
He has written for Financial Times, Daily Telegraph, and Guardian and contributed to publications from Men’s Health and New Woman to Accountancy and Sunday Times. He has published eleven other books on career and management topics.
He is often seen on television including CNN and Channel 4’s Big Brother’s Little Brother. A chartered psychologist of the British Psychological Society with a Ph.D. in psychology from the University of London, he is a popular conference speaker and presenter of a highly acclaimed BBC television series on job hunting.
He lives with his partner in west London and can often be spotted jogging along the side of the Thames.

Customer Reviews

Good, helpful interview book
I found that this book gave some good answers to the "Give me an example of..." questions that crop up time and time again in interviews. The book will provide a decent script of what to say in interviews and when filling out application forms. After several interviews, giving an example of team working, organisational skills, communication skills etc will become like telling a long joke or a familiar story. The answers aren't perfect and they can be specific to a certain role, so you have to be creative and re-work the sample answers to fit into your employment/education background. Overall, though, they offer a good starting point of what employers what to hear from you in an interview.

The competencies-based chapter is a big plus with this book. Competency-based interviews are all the rage these days and a lot of interview books do not deal with them at all. Although there is only one chapter that deals with competency interviews in this book, it is one chapter more than most.

Although it may seem like it, this book won't get you a job if you are good at simply memorising lines. Until that book comes out (and I'll be first in the queue when it does), this is probably the best interview aid out there.

Comprehensive guide - great interview preparation
At 282 pages, this book is stuffed full of interview questions. It's funny - until I read this book, I thought I was quite good at interviews. I'm never at a loss for words and always have quite good rapport with interviewers. But now I understand that the content of what I was saying has not been as good at selling myself as it could be.

For example, the book gives advice on how to answer even seemingly straightforward stuff like "Tell me about yourself". And now that I know the 'secret', I guess I'll never go back to telling the interviewers irrelevant stuff about me.

The book actually takes quite a long time to work through. The author suggests working through it and coming up with your own interview answers. Of course the example answers in the book aren't always relevant (the author does caution about that) so you need to use the advice in the book to come up with your own answers. And that takes time.

But the book is easily navigable - lots of bullet points, contents pages, an alphabetical index of questions, chapters broken up into meaningful sections. So it's a good book to help you zero in on what you're not so good at.

Now that I've taken the time to work through the book (as opposed to simply reading it cover to cover), I can say that this is the best interview book I've come across.

Really informative - strangely amusing too
I bought a bunch of interview books in one go as I hadn't been on an interview for a while until recent circumstances necessitated a job hunt.

The content is excellent if you want advice on how to answer typical (and some not-so-typical) questions then this book is great.

The author presents a BBC TV programme on the topic of job hunting too so obviously a very credible source.

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