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Knockout Interview Answers
"Interview technique books are usually written with the assumption that the reader is stupid, dispensing such sound advice as 'Don't turn up for that CEO interview having consumed 8 pints of premium lager and wearing jogging pants.' What I am doing with this book is offering you a way into the mind of the interviewer so that you can anticipate the kind of questions you're likely to be asked and more importantly have some great answers at your fingertips. What makes me qualified to write this? Being brilliantly qualified yet turned down after the first interview, I began to think about the interview process and how I might have handled some of those tricky questions rather better. Later I became a salesperson and that taught me that answering interview questions and selling things have a lot in common. Then I started up my own training business, and guess what! The same techniques worked there as well. After all, in all three cases you're trying to motivate someone to see that it's in their interests to do exactly what you want - oh, and preferably think that it was their idea in the first place. This book's the result of a business lifetime of asking and answering questions." Ken Langdon. Topics covered include: understanding what your potential employer wants to hear; researching their business; overcoming tough questions; recognising the power; understanding their culture; being true to yourself; and selling your uniqueness. With the "52 Brilliant Ideas" series readers can enhance their existing skills with negligible investment of time or money and will substantially improve their performance over the course of a year. Each of the 52 chapters tackles a single aspect of the subject in an entertaining and lively way. At the end of each chapter is a "how did it go?" feature which allows readers to reflect on the lesson in a classical experiential learning pattern. The tone of each book is personal and informal; readers will feel as thought they are having a one-to-one with their favourite coach.
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228 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 1, 2007
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July 27, 2012
When will I learn to stop getting any old Kindle freebie!
March 4, 2018
Ok, not good
This book needed an editor. I am going to assume it was free and self published. Otherwise, another star in my rating can go.
The organization is off. There’s a heading and a discussion, with a few things that relate to the theme. Every heading also had a discussion that had nothing to do with the theme. Unintentionally. Sometimes, there’s a discussion about some advice that hasn’t showed up yet in the book. Be patient — it’s Ragu. It’s in there. Somewhere. Then there are questions from people asking about applying specific techniques and the author’s responses. Unfortunately, some of the techniques aren’t even in the book, but these Q&As were still the most helpful sections for me.
There are assumptions that seem to apply to non-American English interviews. As someone doing interviews in America, I have no idea if they’re accurate elsewhere. I know they aren’t accurate for my interviews. For example, to the author, panel interviews implicitly are sorting hat interviews. Kind of like the initial panel on American Idol. I’ve had tons of panel interviews in the US, but they’re final interviews, not initial interviews. I never figured out what an appraisal is — in the US, it’s a prescribed way of valuing property for a loan.
This book needed an editor. I am going to assume it was free and self published. Otherwise, another star in my rating can go.
The organization is off. There’s a heading and a discussion, with a few things that relate to the theme. Every heading also had a discussion that had nothing to do with the theme. Unintentionally. Sometimes, there’s a discussion about some advice that hasn’t showed up yet in the book. Be patient — it’s Ragu. It’s in there. Somewhere. Then there are questions from people asking about applying specific techniques and the author’s responses. Unfortunately, some of the techniques aren’t even in the book, but these Q&As were still the most helpful sections for me.
There are assumptions that seem to apply to non-American English interviews. As someone doing interviews in America, I have no idea if they’re accurate elsewhere. I know they aren’t accurate for my interviews. For example, to the author, panel interviews implicitly are sorting hat interviews. Kind of like the initial panel on American Idol. I’ve had tons of panel interviews in the US, but they’re final interviews, not initial interviews. I never figured out what an appraisal is — in the US, it’s a prescribed way of valuing property for a loan.
January 5, 2019
Informative
December 29, 2014
I thought I had to attend a couple of interviews, one for the job I was in (staff cuts), and another for a job in my previous department (much preffered).
So, not being good at interviews, I did what I always do when I don't know enough about something: I read a book (or four).
This is the fourth one.
I saved it for last because it seemed to be the most appropriate.
It wasn't.
Rather than being a list of possible job interview questions and their most appropriate answers, it is a list of questions, and the author's thoughts about those questions.
There are some useful bits of information here, but by the time I'd reached this book, I already knew pretty much all there was to know (or all i needed to know) about the subject.
Perhaps if I had read this one first, it would have been a revelation.
Or maybe not.
ANyWay, it was all rendered moot. A day after I finished this book, a manager dropped by my desk and told me that I had got the job (the one in the previous department).
No interview required.
What an interesting world we live in.
And only a tinge of sarcasm intended there.
So, not being good at interviews, I did what I always do when I don't know enough about something: I read a book (or four).
This is the fourth one.
I saved it for last because it seemed to be the most appropriate.
It wasn't.
Rather than being a list of possible job interview questions and their most appropriate answers, it is a list of questions, and the author's thoughts about those questions.
There are some useful bits of information here, but by the time I'd reached this book, I already knew pretty much all there was to know (or all i needed to know) about the subject.
Perhaps if I had read this one first, it would have been a revelation.
Or maybe not.
ANyWay, it was all rendered moot. A day after I finished this book, a manager dropped by my desk and told me that I had got the job (the one in the previous department).
No interview required.
What an interesting world we live in.
And only a tinge of sarcasm intended there.
April 22, 2013
Very informative, yet simultaneously dry.
The extremely consistent format of every single chapter makes for a slow read. I retrieve a wealth of information, but I must pace myself to finish the entire book. Plus, the grammatical errors bother me.
The extremely consistent format of every single chapter makes for a slow read. I retrieve a wealth of information, but I must pace myself to finish the entire book. Plus, the grammatical errors bother me.
November 7, 2012
Waste of time!
May 29, 2013
for a free book, it wasnt that bad. it was good for going over a few keys points on the plain before my interview.
November 28, 2013
Molto utile per prepararsi a un colloquio, come elenco di domande possibili e con commenti su come costruire al meglio una risposta
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