Ultimate Interview: 100s of Great Interview Answers Tailored to Specific Jobs (Ultimate Series) by Lynn Williams

by Lynn Williams

In preparing for an interview, it's useful to understand what organizations are looking for in a candidate. Ultimate Interview offers insight into how employers decide what they are looking for in a job candidate, how they use this to draw up the questions, how selection procedures work, why employers conduct interviews and what's likely to happen at the average interview.This book gives all of the background information that candidates need as well as essential practice. Uniquely among interview guidebooks, it organizes common interview questions according to specific job types, such as management, sales and marketing, administrative, clerical. This helps focus on the questions that are most relevant to a specific situation. Each section looks at the thinking behind the questions, and suggests an effective method of answering.

Genres: Nonfiction, Business

Paperback

First published May 1, 2005

About the author

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Lynn Williams is a career counsellor and trainer who leads CV and interview workshops. She writes widely on job-search topics and is the author of several career books.

Reviews

[Ric · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very well organized.

[Nikki Brooks · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great tool to help you prepare for all those tricky questions that get fired at you during an interview. As I going for a new position within the same company, I wanted to fine tune my interview skills, which were honestly very rusty!

It covers understanding role of the interviewers, preparation for the interview itself, the generic and specific role questions were really helpful for me.

[Clare East · Rating 3 out of 5]

Maybe I've been job-seeking too long, but I didn't really find anything new in this book. It did, however, confirm that I'm following the right technique, just missing out by small details.

[Samantha · Rating 5 out of 5]

I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway, so thank you so much for that!

I thought this was a really useful and really handy book. It isn't massive, exhausting, or overwhelming and I found the tips being separated by types of job interviews really helpful. I am someone who is in two different career fields, healthcare and sales. This book allowed me to see how interviews for those two kinds of paths would differ and how to kind of market myself to each field.

All in all, I was very pleased!

[Melanie Rippon · Rating 4 out of 5]

Does repeat some of the info from "Ultimate Job Search" but I like that the book covers different types of job. Also that it suggests different sections to check out, depending on the exact job you're going for.

[Kareem Mohamed · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sorted well enough to get you the job in the lie-lie world.
It's good effort anyway , an interesting book with god illustrtions.

[Gary Stocker · Rating 4 out of 5]

Read it before going to some interviews and used it to help me prepare for them. Got offered both jobs so I guess that it worked!

[thebookishblog · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lots of very helpful tips for different kinds of interview question!