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• Title:Ultimate interview : master the art of interview success with 100s of typical, unusual and industry-specific questions and answers / Lynn Williams.
  
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• Author/Creator:Williams, Lynn, 1955 January 15- author.
  
• Published/Created:London : Kogan Page, 2018.
  

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  • Location: c.1  Temporarily shelved at DAVID LAM LIBRARY displayWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: HF5549.5.I6 W542 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Employment interviewing.
  Interviews.
  Self-presentation.
  
• Edition:Fifth edition.
  
• Description:viii, 238 pages ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Ultimate series (Kogan Page (Firm))
  
• Summary:In preparing for an interview, it's useful to understand what organizations are looking for in a candidate. Ultimate Interview offers insight into how employers decide what they are looking for in a job candidate, how they use this to draw up the questions, how selection procedures work, why employers conduct interviews and what's likely to happen at the average interview.
  
• Notes:Includes indexes.
  
• ISBN:9780749481384
  0749481382
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Know your enemy
  Understanding interviewers
  What do they want?
  What sort of things are they looking for?
  What will happen at the interview?
  What sort of questions will they ask?
  How do they know what they're looking for?
  2. Prepare yourself
  What you need to know before the interview
  What should you prepare?
  Exhibit 1 Evidence that you meet their needs
  Exhibit 2 Reassuring answers and explanations
  Exhibit 3 Industry knowledge
  Exhibit 4 reasons you want this job
  3. Standing out
  How to be an outstanding candidate
  Why are these qualities so important?
  4. Answering questions
  What the interviewer will ask and what you need to tell them
  Make a good impression
  Three cardinal rules
  5. Starting the interview
  What to expect from the interview and how to begin confidently
  6. Questions they ask everybody
  Standard questions you should prepare for 7 Behavioural questions
  Some questions dig deeper than others What are the important points?
  8. Questions for practical jobs
  Core question, `Are you reliable'?
  Professional knowledge
  9. Questions for creative jobs
  Core question, `Will you deliver?'
  Professional knowledge
  10. Questions for clerical and administrative jobs
  Core question, `Are you efficient?'
  Professional knowledge
  11. Questions for sales and marketing jobs
  Core question, `Can you sell?'
  Professional knowledge
  12. Questions for technical jobs
  Core question, `Can you do the job?'
  Professional knowledge
  13. Questions for management jobs
  Core question, `Will you get results?'
  Professional knowledge
  14. Questions for customer relations jobs
  Core question, `Are you customer focused?'
  Professional knowledge
  15. Questions for school and college leavers
  What to do if you don't have experience
  Transferable skills
  Professional knowledge
  16. Tackling the difficult questions
  Handling questions about perceived areas of weakness
  Inappropriate and illegal questions
  17. Dealing with tricky questions
  What to say when there's no clear answer
  Dealing with critical or negative questions
  Questions about salary
  Answering closed questions
  18. Answering off-the-wall questions
  What is the interviewer really asking?
  Questions asking you to work something out
  `Psychological' questions
  19. Your questions for the interviewer
  What to ask at the end of the interview
  20. Variations on the theme
  Different types of interview and how to deal with them confidently
  Screening interviews
  Telephone interviews
  Video interviews
  Panel interviews
  Serial interviews
  Assessment centres
  Informal interviews
  Second interviews
  21. interview: Future trends
  Tasks and tests that are already in use and how to prepare for them The interview
  future trends
  Making a presentation
  Showing your portfolio
  Technical and attainment tests
  Physical tests
  Job-replica exercises
  Group exercises
  Psychometric tests
  Future possibilities
  22. Looking the part
  Making a good impression from the start Appearance
  Behaviour
  Overcoming nerves
  23. What happens next?
  What to do after the interview
  While you're waiting for their decision
  If they don't make you an offer
  If they do make you an offer
  24. Interviews in a nutshell
  three essential questions you need to know about
  Main question 1 Can you do the job?
  Main question 2 Will you do the job?
  Main question 3 Will you fit in?.