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The Interview Book: Your Definitive Guide to the Perfect Interview
The UK's bestselling guide to successful interviews is back, with a new editionupdated with expanded content on planning for interviews and tailoring your interview to a specific role.
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This is the definitive, bestselling guide to planning, preparing and performing in interviews to maximise your chances of landing the job you want. The guidance in this book has been tried, tested and honed to perfection. The unique content includes a chapter on avoiding the most common interview mistakes, and important information on how to handle and benefit from the post-interview period.
Written by the CEO of the UK's leading CV consultancy service, James Innes, the book is supported by exclusive online tools and bonus content including sample interview questions, templates and best-practice scenarios.
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This is the definitive, bestselling guide to planning, preparing and performing in interviews to maximise your chances of landing the job you want. The guidance in this book has been tried, tested and honed to perfection. The unique content includes a chapter on avoiding the most common interview mistakes, and important information on how to handle and benefit from the post-interview period.
Written by the CEO of the UK's leading CV consultancy service, James Innes, the book is supported by exclusive online tools and bonus content including sample interview questions, templates and best-practice scenarios.
298 pages, Paperback
First published December 7, 2009
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December 29, 2014
This is the second book I've read in as many days on the subject of interviews, the first being 'Successful Interviews In a Week'.
This one was twice the length, so I thought it would be more in-depth, but this didn't turn out to be the case. About 25% of the pages are either blank, have just a couple of lines of text at the end of chapters, contain chapter titles alone, or part titles alone (32 chapters and 5 parts - you do the maths). If I had bought the book with my own money, I would have felt a bit short changed - yay for libraries.
The author has a great voice - the voice of authority. He has the kind of tone that gains your confidence that he knows what he is talking about; both because he has been interviewed many times himself and because he has conducted interviews. He owns 'the UK's leading CV consultancy' so I guess he should know what he's talking about.
The style is therefore authoritative, clear and simple. This is a book that it's easy to get to grips with and derive benefit from.
Much of the content consists of example after example of interview questions, meanings behind these questions, instructions for answering and suggested answers - in fact just about every question I could think of (and more) were covered in this volume. And if this wasn't enough - there are more questions listed, but the explanations and suggestions for answering them are on the author's website. I can't help thinking though that if less white space were used in this book, then all the questions could have been fitted into one volume.
The biggest learning point from this book, and the previous one, and I suppose the next 3 as well, is that as well as reading these books, you have to sit down, look through your own experience and work out answers to all these questions yourself.
All these books have their place - but there's just no substitute for working through your own stuff.
This one was twice the length, so I thought it would be more in-depth, but this didn't turn out to be the case. About 25% of the pages are either blank, have just a couple of lines of text at the end of chapters, contain chapter titles alone, or part titles alone (32 chapters and 5 parts - you do the maths). If I had bought the book with my own money, I would have felt a bit short changed - yay for libraries.
The author has a great voice - the voice of authority. He has the kind of tone that gains your confidence that he knows what he is talking about; both because he has been interviewed many times himself and because he has conducted interviews. He owns 'the UK's leading CV consultancy' so I guess he should know what he's talking about.
The style is therefore authoritative, clear and simple. This is a book that it's easy to get to grips with and derive benefit from.
Much of the content consists of example after example of interview questions, meanings behind these questions, instructions for answering and suggested answers - in fact just about every question I could think of (and more) were covered in this volume. And if this wasn't enough - there are more questions listed, but the explanations and suggestions for answering them are on the author's website. I can't help thinking though that if less white space were used in this book, then all the questions could have been fitted into one volume.
The biggest learning point from this book, and the previous one, and I suppose the next 3 as well, is that as well as reading these books, you have to sit down, look through your own experience and work out answers to all these questions yourself.
All these books have their place - but there's just no substitute for working through your own stuff.
April 15, 2019
This is a useful and comprehensive book with plenty of good ideas to help you prepare, carry out and follow up interviews effectively. There's a lot of information on how to make a good impression and effectively handle tricky questions.
A book has to be truly exceptional for me to rate it as a 5, but this misses out from being a 4 as a lot of the material in it is stating the blindingly obvious. That said, it's a straightforward and helpful read that can help you go into an interview well-prepared and confident.
A book has to be truly exceptional for me to rate it as a 5, but this misses out from being a 4 as a lot of the material in it is stating the blindingly obvious. That said, it's a straightforward and helpful read that can help you go into an interview well-prepared and confident.
February 9, 2019
I particularly like part 3, the interview questions. The examples give me a good sense of what the answer may look like.
October 30, 2023
This book discusses the different type of interviews. It was my first introduction to panel interviews was in this book. I also learnt about how panel interviews are carried out. I attended a few panel interviews since my 20's, some were successful and others were unsuccessful. If you are new to the workforce I strongly recommend this book.
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