Product Description

What do interviewers really want from a candidate? How do they decide whether to hire you or someone else? What can you do to make it you? Who better to advise interviewees than interviewers? This book tells you what they want and teaches you how to deliver.

Like Brilliant CV, this book is highly practical and interactive. Find out what works in the real world and put it into practise through text features such as tips from the experts, shining examples, horror stories, questions and quizzes to get you thinking. It is clear enough for new interviewees, and has enough detail and thought-provoking ideas to revamp the technique of those more practised at job interviews.

Read this book and arm yourself with the advantage of knowing what interviewers are looking for and how supply it. Learn to show yourself in the best possible light and maximise your chances of getting the job.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #258666 in Books
• Published on: 2005-05-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 161 pages

Review

"Recommended reading" - Personnel Today, November 2006

"Ros Jay's succinct and encouraging approach provides a wealth of insights and support" - Student Accountant February 2007

From the Back Cover

Brilliant Interview

What employers want to hear and how to say it

A job interview is a big deal – a new job can boost your career and affect your whole life. But what are interviewers really looking for? What can you say and do to improve your chances of getting the job? And what should you avoid at all costs?

Brilliant Interview is the book that reveals how interviewers decide who they want to hire – and how to make sure that person is you. It’s a clear, down-to-earth guide with tips, examples and advice from the people who know best – the interviewers.

New to this edition are suggestions of what to say in those anxious moments as you walk to the interview room, and a whole new section on competency-based interviews, so you’ve nothing to fear, whatever they throw at you.

You’ll arrive on the day knowing what it is the interviewer is looking for – and you’ll be ready to deliver it.

Don’t be good, be brilliant.

About the Author
Ros Jay runs a small business and is also the author of a number of bestselling careers and business books. Her bestselling books include: Fast Thinking Managers Manual (editor and major contributor), Brilliant Interview, Successful Candidate, How to Build A Great Team and White Ladder Diaries.

Customer Reviews

Brilliant book for a brilliant interview
If, like me, you are an interview-phobic then Brilliant Interview is definitely the book for you. I have just returned from my first interview in 4 years and if I hadn't bought this book then I may not have gone at all. This book helped me prepare and gain confidence by explaining everything from combating nerves to answering the toughest of interview questions (many of which I was asked during my interview). It even explains what you should do if you are not successful in your interview. My only one complaint is that it lacks advice on the ever more popular competency based questions now used in interviews. Despite that, this is a very useful book and I would thoroughly recommend it to anyone concerned about attending interviews.

OK but nothing special
A well-written book, but wasn't quite what I was hoping for. I was hoping for more advice and explanation about how to deal with certain tricky questions and issues that I'm facing.

The book is useful if you want advice on how to negotiate a job package after you've been offered a job. But I've come across stronger books on how to pass the interview questions in the first place.

All good advice - but you could do a web search instead
This is a well laid out and well presented book, with plenty of good advice. The advice is, as far as I can tell, being given by experienced and well qualified people and should be very helpful for anyone preparing for a job interview (or several job interviews).
Unfortunately you could get all the same advice, and more besides, by doing an internet search on 'job interviews' or scanning through a few relevant web sites. Lots of recruitment and employment websites offer advice along the same lines as the content of this book, but unlike the book it's free, so you may be better off just searching the web.
The book does at least collect the advice together into relevant sections, in a logical order and present it in a manner which makes it easier to take in. If you're prepared to take the time to sort through information from two or three web sources and put up with a bit of duplication you'll probably find that the internet search method is a lot cheaper and returns a wider range of information than this book.