Product Description

this new edition of the best-selling job-hunting book of all time should be your essential companion if you are looking for a job. dealing with the whole process, from creating an outstanding cv and answering the most dreaded interview questions to negotiating a salary, it is suitable for job-seekers at any stage of their career.

great answers to tough interview questions is full of examples of tough questions that interviewers like to throw at you, showing you how to answer them in a way that will advance your application and help you to secure your dream job.

it also offers advice on exploiting the hidden job market, using headhunters, networking, succeeding in telephone interviews, dressing for success, body language, securing a job offer, following up rejections and dealing with multiple offers.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #10895 in Books
• Published on: 2008-06-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 310 pages

Accounting Technician
"OK, two words: 'must have'..treat this book as your bible and those squirming, sweaty-palmed, heart-pumping, tongue-tied interview moments will soon be a thing of the past."

Review

“ok, two words: ‘must have’…treat this book as your bible and those squirming, sweaty-palmed, heart-pumping, tongue-tied interview moments will soon be a thing of the past.”

accounting technician

“knock 'em dead career strategies. …the ultimate job hunter’s guide.”

pathfinder

“a thorough and practical guide to the difficult task of finding that next job. it takes the reader step by step through the process, starting with cvs and applications, through the interview process and on to the final negotiations over salary. it is realistic and portrays the reality of job hunting in the twenty-first century…a solid job-hunting guide, the price is excellent and its step-by-step approach certainly means it could be recommended to individual clients for purchase and use.”

newscheck

“you may feel waves of regret as you read this book and imagine how your life might have been different if you had studied it earlier in your career…an excellent guide for job hunters, complete with corporate fashion tips…a no-nonsense tour through the job-hunting process.”

www.getabstract.com

“the ultimate job hunter’s guide and bible.”

bookseller

“takes readers through the whole process…useful for anyone at any stage in his or her career, providing guidance for landing the job you want.”

business executive

“'if you are a recent graduate, you’re expected to have high aspirations, so go for it',” says martin john yate, author of great answers to tough interview questions.”

the guardian

“i just wanted to say thank you so much for your book. i can really, honestly say that it has influenced my life course! i decided last year to change jobs and really found your book gave me the confidence to really go for it… i really think your book has influenced so many lives in an “it’s a wonderful life” type way – you should be so enormously proud, as am i to have it on my bookshelf for generations to come.”

peter bowles, customer review

“an essential guide for the modern jobseeker.”

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

“some excellent tips on how to answer potential clangers.”

cosmopolitan

Newscheck
"A thorough and practical guide to the difficult task of finding that next job..a solid job-hunting guide, the price is excellent.."

Customer Reviews

This book got me a job!
This book was recommended to me by my brother after he successfully used the techniques advocated by it to gain his current position. It definitely made me feel more confident and far better prepared for all the interviews I attended, especially the dreaded "assessment centers" which are so commonly utilised by employers these days. It is hard to sum up the qualities of this publication but the statistics speak for themselves:

Interviews = 4, Offers = 4

And I really struggled before I got the book!

Disappointing
Given that this book is in its 7th edition, I had assumed that it must be THE definitive guide to coping with job interviews. It is true that there is much solid information in here. If you are looking for a job and a bit rusty, then there is much essential information in here. However, the book is set out in a really obscure manner. I'm not a complete novice so I didn't want to have to read the book cover-to-cover. I wanted to skip chapters and go to the bits that I struggle with. As a consequence, I found the book very difficult to navigate. I don't know if I can mention job hunting books by other companies here (so I won't), but there are other books which are laid out in a more accessible fashion.

In summary, this is probably a great book if you are willing to invest heavily timewise to read it cover-to-cover (eg you are looking for a complete job hunting makeover). However, if you want to skim a book to pick up some tips, I would advocate that you look elsewhere.

fantastic read : a book with attitude
Read this book many moons ago, I think it was revision 2 or something.
and read bits of it from the newer revisions.

The most important thing this book gives you is the correct attitude for job hunting/careers in general.
Read the book from cover to cover and then walk into an interview and your chances of getting that job are much higher simply because of the frame of mind this book puts you in.
after reading this, my success rate at job interviews went up to about 90%, it puts you in control of the interview, and it feels like your the interviewer, and your interviewing the company on whether you would like to work for them! nice.