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The 250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked... And The Answers That Will Get You Hired!
Do you have convincing answers ready for these important questions? If you want the answers that will get you hired, this is the audiobook for you. Landing a job is a competitive process and the final decision is often based on your performance in an interview. By following the advice of human resources expert, Peter Veruki, you know you'll have the right answers for the right job.
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First published February 1, 1999
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July 10, 2009
Why I Read this Book: I had a very important job interview in less than a week and I desperately needed help. This provides great guidance for putting together your (true) story.
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As with most of the books in this Career section, this is as much a resource as it is a book. The book offers exactly what the title lets on and a bit more. It starts off with general interview tips and then gets into the 250 questions and their answers.
The real value in this book is the creative thinking it encourages.Do not expect to have a successful interview by purchasing this book, reading the questions and memorizing all of the answers. Any interviewer with half a mind will see right through that. This book is best used as a resource to get an idea for the type of things for which interviewers are looking. If you talk to or read any material by a job search expert you are going to get the same advice. It is always about the story. Richard Bolles is especially big on this in What Color Is Your Parachute, and it is something that I have personally experienced a great deal of success in implementing. Your resume and experiences throughout your life are nothing more than parts to a story that you must piece together in front of a potential employer to show them why their company is the next logical chapter to be written in your story.
Throughout life things go on that do not make a whole lot of sense (as if you did not already know that); some or many of which you may not be able to control. However there is one thing you can always control. It is the way that you portray those experiences to someone else. Your story is just that. It is yours to create, mold and position just as you like it. Please do not get me wrong, I am not saying that you should be dishonest in any way. The fact of the matter is that you have the power to choose which parts of your life and your story you want to give emphasis. You may go into one interview and tell your story one way. Then you may walk over to another interview that same day and tell it in a completely different way. Just like it is important to position a product based on your target market, it is even more important to position yourself based upon your audience (this is something that I will go into with more detail in the personal branding section). Who you are is not changing. What is changing is the way you describe how you are best fit to provide the employer with the proper solutions for the given job role.
The specific answers to these 250 questions are not what are important to understand and get across in your interview. It is the way that the answers support your overall story and reason for being in that interview that is going to make all the difference. There is a huge advantage to having an interview with an employer as opposed to being selected based on your resume alone. Your resume is a lifeless piece of paper without you to provide the story to eloquently link all of those words, sentences and bullet points together to tell a story of true success. To tell a story of your success and how it will live into your next experience. Why do you think employers conduct interviews? To hear your story and the way you tell it. Let this book be a way to spur your creativity. Remember, everyone has an incredible story to tell. Some people have a harder time putting it together than others, but everyone has one. It is up to you to tell it. Please Contact Us if you have any questions on the topic of telling your own story. It is something about which I am very passionate.
-Reading for Your Success
Review:
As with most of the books in this Career section, this is as much a resource as it is a book. The book offers exactly what the title lets on and a bit more. It starts off with general interview tips and then gets into the 250 questions and their answers.
The real value in this book is the creative thinking it encourages.Do not expect to have a successful interview by purchasing this book, reading the questions and memorizing all of the answers. Any interviewer with half a mind will see right through that. This book is best used as a resource to get an idea for the type of things for which interviewers are looking. If you talk to or read any material by a job search expert you are going to get the same advice. It is always about the story. Richard Bolles is especially big on this in What Color Is Your Parachute, and it is something that I have personally experienced a great deal of success in implementing. Your resume and experiences throughout your life are nothing more than parts to a story that you must piece together in front of a potential employer to show them why their company is the next logical chapter to be written in your story.
Throughout life things go on that do not make a whole lot of sense (as if you did not already know that); some or many of which you may not be able to control. However there is one thing you can always control. It is the way that you portray those experiences to someone else. Your story is just that. It is yours to create, mold and position just as you like it. Please do not get me wrong, I am not saying that you should be dishonest in any way. The fact of the matter is that you have the power to choose which parts of your life and your story you want to give emphasis. You may go into one interview and tell your story one way. Then you may walk over to another interview that same day and tell it in a completely different way. Just like it is important to position a product based on your target market, it is even more important to position yourself based upon your audience (this is something that I will go into with more detail in the personal branding section). Who you are is not changing. What is changing is the way you describe how you are best fit to provide the employer with the proper solutions for the given job role.
The specific answers to these 250 questions are not what are important to understand and get across in your interview. It is the way that the answers support your overall story and reason for being in that interview that is going to make all the difference. There is a huge advantage to having an interview with an employer as opposed to being selected based on your resume alone. Your resume is a lifeless piece of paper without you to provide the story to eloquently link all of those words, sentences and bullet points together to tell a story of true success. To tell a story of your success and how it will live into your next experience. Why do you think employers conduct interviews? To hear your story and the way you tell it. Let this book be a way to spur your creativity. Remember, everyone has an incredible story to tell. Some people have a harder time putting it together than others, but everyone has one. It is up to you to tell it. Please Contact Us if you have any questions on the topic of telling your own story. It is something about which I am very passionate.
-Reading for Your Success
July 22, 2022
I actually did score a new job at about the halfway point of the book and put it down thinking “guess I can stop here” and left it on the table but after continuously walking past it and eventually feeling a kinda way about not finishing it I decided to pick it back up to do so. I think it did help me some with my interviews… even though the answers to those 250 questions might not have too precisely been the way to respond to these or similar questions with every job interview being different but they served as adequate templates to help formulate ideas for responses which would be fitting. Some of the questions/answers can also come across as dated but again just contemplating modernizing them wasn’t too difficult. I would highly recommend to anyone in the job market.
July 7, 2021
Definitivamente este libro es para responder las 250 preguntas (o solo algunas en el caso de que te este preparando para tu primer empleo) y de aceptar sugerencias de como responderlas para que te vaya bien en las entrevistas. En verdad súper recomendado para preparar entrevistas laborales.
January 12, 2019
The book tries to provide rationale for each question but it could be more concise. It is not industry specific enough to ‘get you hired’.
February 23, 2024
I love the format of questions you might be asked, sample answers, and what you're going for. It helped me a LOT in preparation for an interview loop.
December 25, 2014
I listened to the audio version of this book. The author read the 250 questions and explained the intent behind the questions. A male narrator and a female narrator, both of whom sounded like qualified interviewees, "answered" the questions.
Each sample answer was appropriate, in other words, they sounded impressive. However, anyone wanting to prepare for their own interview would have to stop the recording, analyze why the sample answer was a "good" one, reflect on their own career history and then try to compose an answer. I've read other books that gave suggestions for fielding interview questions that were more user-friendly than this book. Those other books gave a sort of recipe for concocting your answer, the recipe usually included a list of factors (prompts)that made it easier for the reader to construct a personal response that met the cultural guidelines for an effective answer.
Listening to the book made me feel as though I was eavesdropping on an interview or on a demonstration of how a skilled person performed in an interview. It didn't feel like a handbook for preparing for my interview.
I was also struck by the type of jobs the pretend interviewees apparently had. They were almost entirely people with a multi-year history of white collar jobs. No one said 'when I cleaned the cages at the zoo" or "I consistently packed more orders than anyone else on 2nd shift in the warehouse." People who currently have these types of non-white-collar jobs and folks who are entering the job market for the first time may aspire to conducting better interviews--there's not much here for them without a creative adaptation of the sample answers. Frankly, if you have that much imagination and skill for converting the sample answers into answers relating to your experience, I don't know why you'd need this book to be a successful interviewee. This book may supplement other interview prep materials, but I can't recommend it as your only resource.
Each sample answer was appropriate, in other words, they sounded impressive. However, anyone wanting to prepare for their own interview would have to stop the recording, analyze why the sample answer was a "good" one, reflect on their own career history and then try to compose an answer. I've read other books that gave suggestions for fielding interview questions that were more user-friendly than this book. Those other books gave a sort of recipe for concocting your answer, the recipe usually included a list of factors (prompts)that made it easier for the reader to construct a personal response that met the cultural guidelines for an effective answer.
Listening to the book made me feel as though I was eavesdropping on an interview or on a demonstration of how a skilled person performed in an interview. It didn't feel like a handbook for preparing for my interview.
I was also struck by the type of jobs the pretend interviewees apparently had. They were almost entirely people with a multi-year history of white collar jobs. No one said 'when I cleaned the cages at the zoo" or "I consistently packed more orders than anyone else on 2nd shift in the warehouse." People who currently have these types of non-white-collar jobs and folks who are entering the job market for the first time may aspire to conducting better interviews--there's not much here for them without a creative adaptation of the sample answers. Frankly, if you have that much imagination and skill for converting the sample answers into answers relating to your experience, I don't know why you'd need this book to be a successful interviewee. This book may supplement other interview prep materials, but I can't recommend it as your only resource.
November 2, 2016
I read it for the sake of getting exposed to the different types of questions that are asked in interviews. The book starts with general advices for getting prepared for an interview, then follows with addressing different questions broken to different categories, for instance, there is a category for working experience questions, cultural and personality questions, etc. The book is a great reference for anticipating what might be asked in an interview of job applied for a specific position. There are questions in this book addressed with answers as examples and, most importantly, the ways of answering the questions for different positions such as sales, engineering, art, etc. When reading, I have highlighted and focused on the questions that I anticipated to be asked, and I avoided reading the answers of the questions and focused on the ways of answering since many of the questions' answers are not related to my field and experience. Hence, focusing on the ways of answering the questions was more effective and time saving to me.
Not to forget mentioning that the book can be great reference and helper to an interviewer. It can help them to better ask questions based on the position applied and experience of an interviewee. This book is kinda helpful to both, interviewee in first place and interviewer.
Not to forget mentioning that the book can be great reference and helper to an interviewer. It can help them to better ask questions based on the position applied and experience of an interviewee. This book is kinda helpful to both, interviewee in first place and interviewer.
January 26, 2012
Overall, I would have to say this is a pretty good book for people who just want a list of questions (and possible answers) that they are likely to get in an interview. It's particularly great if you don't want to get caught off-guard. True, a lot of the answers I found laughably funny (if you ever tell someone your biggest weakness is being a perfectionist, I guarantee you aren't going to get the job because they will think you are a liar, even if it happens to be true) and the music between sections and chapters was just bad... horribly, horribly bad (I listened to the audio version, obviously. The book didn't have inserts of music; at least I hope it didn't). However, if you are looking for a job, this book can be a good resource to you. At the very least it gives you a worst case scenario for how the interview would go (that being the employer asks you all 250 questions... YIKES!).
October 6, 2009
I had two phone interviews and I can honestly say that 90% of the questions were directly from this book. This book was written for those with a business background; however, it can apply to all professions. As a new graduate, I just landed a nursing position in an intensive care unit.
January 14, 2013
I got this book to help me ask better interview questions. Anyone that does a lot of interview should get some form of this book. This book has 50 hard questions to ask at the end. I am slowing becoming an expert interviewer.
February 27, 2009
You mean I don't have to come up with my own? Seriously,
i found this book had great insight in how to ask questions based on the culture you want in yoiur business.
i found this book had great insight in how to ask questions based on the culture you want in yoiur business.
January 28, 2010
worth reading
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June 10, 2010read this the other day in B&N interesting :)
January 12, 2011
good notes in the book, nearly coveres all sides of a job interview, still lack more information of newly graduates like me
May 15, 2011
استفدت منه كثي��ا في طريقه الاسلوب ولغة الجسد ايضا لاكن كان باستطاعته توصيل المطلوب بطرق اقصر واسرع توقيرا لوقت القارء
August 3, 2011
I think, it is a good book for fresh graduate who is looking for job and facing many interviews request!
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January 30, 2014Recommended by Ron Meadows
December 30, 2014
كتاب ممتاز للمبتدئين في الحياه الوظيفية
حتى ان فيه الكثير من الأخطاء الشائعه في المقابله الوظيفية
استفدت منه الكثير و نجحت في مقابلت عملي انصح فيه للقراءه
حتى ان فيه الكثير من الأخطاء الشائعه في المقابله الوظيفية
استفدت منه الكثير و نجحت في مقابلت عملي انصح فيه للقراءه
April 20, 2015
A little cliche, but a good refresher
August 26, 2014
Great tips. I am going to listen again to the audio and take notes.
April 21, 2017
good insightful book which brings lot to the table.
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