Job Interviews For Dummies

By Joyce Lain Kennedy

Book Overview

Appearance. Performance skills. Confidence. All are winning - and attainable - traits that will help you land the job you want. You can acquire these skills by perusing Job Interviews For Dummies . This revised edition incorporates a multitude of updates and covers all the bases in getting employers to say, You're the one Written for all job seekers - new entrants, midlevel people, very experienced individuals, and technical and non-technical job seekers - Job Interviews For Dummies is packed with the building blocks of show-stopping interviews. These range from strategies and techniques to sample dialogue and research tips. Interviewing for a job is kind of like a stage performance, and if you want metaphorical standing ovations, then follow the guidelines offered in these pages. In this book, you'll explore the basics of interviewing, from how to dress to how to answer all sorts of questions - questions about you, your interest in the company, your experience, you education and training, your skills, your age, and questions they shouldn't ask but sometimes do anyway. You'll also uncover information about Practicing for your interview, and why it's so important Recognizing the mind games of job testing Wooing reviewers who give you references Identifying various interviewing scenarios you should expect Answering questions to sell yourself. Understanding the new interviewing technology, such as telephone interviews and video transmissions. On the stress scale, interviewing for a job ranks with making speeches before a vegetable-throwing crowd. Stress is such a big issue that some interviewees take tranquilizers or beta blockers to reduce it. A better way exists: Master the job-interviewing process. Get the winning ways down pat, and you'll have a special kind of insurance the rest of your working days. This guide can help.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764552252
• ISBN13: 9780764552250
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: For Dummies
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.2" x 0.7" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

I love this book, I can't say enough about it!

I love this book. It is something I read before every interview, and I am 6 for 6. It does a very good job of giving you an overview of questions to expect during an interview, and also good ways and bad ways to answer those questions. Whether you are preparing for your first interview, or you have been through a million interviews, I think this book is definitely a worthwhile read. I plan to buy a copy of this book for each of my friends who are soon to be in the job search process. FYI: I am a 20 yo college junior.

Very helpful

I have always been terrified of interviews and found this book to be of GREAT help. Highly recommended!

Well worth the price of admission

This book's theme is that job interviewing is really performance art and how you can use it to get job offers. Throughout the book the case is made that the job interview should be approached much like an audition for a part in a play. Some of the most important traits needed to win the part are appearance, performance skills and confidence, and this book goes over them in an entertaining and easily readable fashion.One thing I liked is the way each topic is covered and then tips are given to illustrate the ShowStopper way as well as the Show Flopper way, with breakout boxes discussing areas that are judgment calls in which the experts are divided and it's up to you to decide how one approach or another best fits your situation. Doing your homework prior to the interview is stressed heavily, as is the obvious value of correcting any deficiencies you may have in your skill set or educational background. The ultimate answer to difficult questions about your qualifications or lack thereof is to either have those skills now or be working on getting them, so you can walk onstage with the confidence needed to land the part.Joe Buchberger

Hope other applicants don't read this book!

Job Interviews for Dummies is loaded with all the inside scoop information you need to successfully land that dream job! (Provided you're qualified for it). In fact, about the only thing Job Interviews for Dummies cannot tell you, are those rapport building, ice breaking conversation topics for your particular interviewee...does he/she like golf, dogs, etc. You'll have to figure those out on your own!Job Interviews for Dummies clearly spells out what you should expect, and how you should prepare in order to have a successful job interview.I highly recommend it!

A Huge Help

I am graduating this year and am still a rookie in job interviewing. This book has been such an enormous help to me in preparing interviews.