Product Description

Learn all you need to know about interviewing for recruitment from preparing suitable questions and structuring an interview to analysing information and reaching a decision. Interviewing Skills not only shows you how to choose a new person to fill a post or interview colleagues for a promotion but also provides practical techniques for you to use when interviewing. Power tips help you to handle real-life situations and develop first-class interviewing skills that will dramatically improve results. This innovative series covers a wide range of management and personal development topics. Each title is a comprehensive yet compact source of easy reference for all those in or aspiring to a position of responsibility with a focus on developing and enhancing professional management practice.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #417198 in Books
• Published on: 1998-09-17
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 72 pages

Amazon.co.uk Review
Most people working in a business will get involved in interviewing at some point in their career. Even if interviewing potential new recruits is not part of our regular work activity, we can get asked onto a panel because we have special skills, or because it is seen as good work experience. This booklet could be particularly useful for the irregular interviewer who needs to remind themselves of essential skills, especially where formal training is not provided.

The book covers all the bases. There is a section on preparing for the interview which includes material on selecting interviewees and preparing questions as well as honing listening skills. Where the interview itself is concerned you'll find pointers on topics like reading all-important body language, using tests, and how to open and close an interview. And there is plenty of advice on assessing interviews and making final shortlists as well as help on dealing with those who have not been given the job. --Sandra Vogel

About the Author
Tim Hindle is founder of the London-based business language consultancy, Working Words, which helps international companies to compose material in English and communicate their messages clearly to their intended audiences. A regular business writer, Tim Hindle has been a contributor to The Economist since 1979 and was editor of EuroBusiness from 1994 to 1999. As editorial consultant and author, he has produced a number of titles including Pocket Manager, Pocket MBA and Pocket Finance, and a biography of Asil Nadir, The Sultan of Berkeley Square.

Customer Reviews

Waste of time
This book was obviously written by someone who doesn't actually interview candidates for a living. I was looking for a book that would help me to explain to line managers how to interview candidates in a rigorous and fair (i.e. non-discriminatory) fashion. This book has lots of pretty pictures but the content is very poor. The advice is frankly patronising, for example "Get plenty of rest so that you can be alert during an interview" and "Offer refreshments to candidatesin order to help put them at ease".