Product Description

Whether you are a first time job hunter, seeking to change career, have a checkered career history, or part of the 'graying population', this book highlights the latest in competency interviewing techniques and equips you with the ability to thrive in any interview situation. "Job Interviews: Top Answers to Tough Questions" is your indispensable guide to thriving in any interview situation. 'Top UK Careers Guide John Lees' has joined forces with American careers expert, Matthew J. Deluca, to take you through the whole interview process.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #42732 in Books
• Published on: 2003-11-01
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 250 pages

Synopsis
Whether you are a first time job hunter, seeking to change career, have a checkered career history, or part of the 'graying population', this book highlights the latest in competency interviewing techniques and equips you with the ability to thrive in any interview situation. "Job Interviews: Top Answers to Tough Questions" is your indispensable guide to thriving in any interview situation. 'Top UK Careers Guide John Lees' has joined forces with American careers expert, Matthew J. Deluca, to take you through the whole interview process.

About the Author
John Lees is one of the UK’s most prominent career transition coaches with 20 years experience of training recruiters. He specialises in helping career changers gain the confidence and skills to find a job they will love and overcome barriers in the way of success. John is a regular contributor to The Times, The Guardian, Personnel Today and People Management. He is the author of the following bestselling titles: How To Get A Job You’ll Love which focuses on helping the reader identify the kind of career they really want by discovering what really interests them, what their hidden skills are and how to tap into these talents. Job Interviews: Top Answers to Tough Questions which is a comprehensive toolkit for dealing with awkward, probing, personality and competency based interview questions. Take Control of Your Career a practical guide to developing the best career strategy whether the reader wants to take the next step up the career ladder or move to a more interesting job. Why You? CV Messages To Win Jobs which draws on extensive research into the way employers read CVs and how to develop the right format to match the readers needs and aspirations to get onto that all important shortlist.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant job interview advice
This book will ensure that you are properly prepared for a job interview instead of telling yourself to wing it. The auhors have spent some time dissecting the job interview process and they help you work out how you can tell the interviewer what he or she wants to hear. As they write in the introduction: it's not the best candidate that gets the job, it's the best interviewee.

I'm not normally a fan of this kind of book, but this really is exceptionally good and it worked for me!

Job Interviews: top anwers to tough questions
A great book if you are preparing for an interview or helping someone else to do that. Lots of really useful general advice about interviews - including issues you don't often consider but need to - all in a succinct and user-friendly way.

The layout is helpful and makes it easy to find your way round the book, with key issues summarised at the end of sections. The whole book is very easy to browse through and pick up information fast.

I liked the option of a "Fast Track approach: how to use this book if you have an interview tomorrow"! Also the 201 questions and practical approaches to answering them. Altogether, a very useful find.

Another winner
How many times have you been in a job interview and had those tricky questions like "what are your strengths?" and worse, "what are your weaknesses?".

In short, there are no right answers to these questions, just answers that are right for you. John Lees helps the reader to work out what those right answers should be. And perhaps more importantly, there are wrong answers to many of these questions. Again, John helps the reader to avoid giving answers that harm his/her chances of success.

As well as this, there is a short section dealing with 'wrong questions' - how to respond to questions that are probably illegal, such as around gender or race.

All in all, another winner from John Lees. If you are job-searching now, or expect to be job-searching, get this book.