The Five-Minute Interview

By Richard H. Beatty

Book Overview

Ensure success in the first five minutes of your interview This revolutionary approach to interviewing puts you in the driver's seat, enabling you to quickly, confidently gain insight into an employer's needs and objectives, then position yourself as the ideal candidate who best meets those needs-all in just five minutes. Here's how: Minute 1: First impressions-your looks, your dress, your attitude Minute 2: Steering the interview-traditionally it's the employer who establishes the line of inquiry, this time it's you Minute 3: While other candidates are still talking about themselves, you're getting the employer to tell you exactly how this position fits in the company's long- and short-term strategic goals-i.e., exactly what they're looking for Minute 4: Conventional candidates are still talking about their last jobs-you're learning the company's key problems and challenges Minute 5: Instead of fielding questions about your background, you're already positioning yourself as the ideal candidate to resolve those problems and meet all challenges This revised and expanded new edition of career guru Richard Beatty's bestseller-which includes three new chapters, Avoiding Interview Disasters, The Ideal Candidate Strategy, and Key Problems and Challenges Strategy-does more than get the job done ... it gets the job, period.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0471192953
• ISBN13: 9780471192954
• Release Date: October 1997
• Publisher: Wiley
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.6" x 5.9"

Customer Reviews

The best interview book (by far!)

In the course of my professional career I've read quite a few books on interview process. I've been both an interviewee and interviewer. This book is by far the best book on interviewing I've ever read and used with great success on both sides of a table, so to speak. The main premise of this book is that every interview is highly dependent on an individual interviewer. When a candidate comes for an interview (s)he can only guess what an interviewer is looking for. In reality (s)he has no idea. So, instead of responding to questions with guessing answers, -shooting from the hip so to speak -, the book suggests to spend first 5 minutes of the interview actually interviewing interviewer. Only then, with concrete knowledge of what this particular interviewer is looking for, the candidate can answer intelligently, matching his or her skills, knowledge and experience to particular needs of the interviewer. Obviously this approach is not for cowards. One needs courage to change the usual interview procedure. It provides you with all the knowledge one needs to have to master and use this approach. I have followed this book with great success as both interviewee and interviewer. From the book you'll learn all the different interview types and styles; the questions that will provide you with the ultimate knowledge of the company, your future responsibilities, and what it would take to succeed in the particular environment. You will learn how to match your background to the needs of the interviewer for the best results. You'll become and position yourself as an intelligent and competent interviewee. Buy "The Five-minute Interview," read it, and use it to your great success.