When Can you Start? 2014: ACE the Job Interview and GET HIRED

by Paul Freiberger

This new edition of the best-selling job interview guide is available now with up-to-the minute help for your job search strategy. Mastering the job interview is key to a successful job hunting strategy. The job interview is the moment that can change your life. You deserve to get hired. But, whether it’s a high tech job, an executive job, or the new grad’s first job, few people prepare well for this vital step while job hunting.

As president of Shimmering Resumes, a career counseling firm and former head of corporate communications for McKinsey & Company, Paul Freiberger has over 20 years of professional job search expertise. This latest edition excels at providing new insights as well as the classic winning When Can You Start job interview formula.

A Los Angeles Times award-winning author, Freiberger offers the proven tools and new tips for the interview process.

In this revised and updated edition, you will learn about:

* The Toughest Job Interview Questions
* Not Telling the Interviewer About Your Weaknesses
* Answering Trick and Oddball Questions
* The Latest in Video Interviews
* Mastering Phone, Panel, and one-on-one interviews
* Devising the Best Questions
* Empowering your job search with informational interviews
* Avoiding Job Interview Mistakes
* Salary Negotiation Tips and Strategies

With the right preparation, you will have a major advantage over the competition in even the toughest job markets. Convert "We'll be in touch" into "When can you start?” This book will show you how.

188 pages, Kindle Edition

First published November 16, 2013

About the author

Paul Freiberger, author of "When Can You Start?" is an award-winning writer. His work has been widely praised for its effectiveness and compassion. As President of Shimmering Careers, Paul helps individuals improve their careers with job interview preparation, resumes and job search.

Paul won The Los Angeles Times Book Award as co-author of "Fuzzy Logic" (Simon & Schuster, 1994) and he co-authored the best-selling "Fire in the Valley: The Birth of the Personal Computer" (McGraw-Hill, 1984, rev. 2000), translated into many languages and later made into the Hollywood movie Pirates of Silicon Valley with Noah Wyle. Paul has produced reports for National Public Radio programs, including All Things Considered and Morning Edition. He is a former columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner. He directed communications for McKinsey & Company, the world's most respected global management consulting firm.

Paul has gone through several job transformations himself. He has worked as a teacher, a night porter, a newspaper reporter, a technology project manager, a chef, a communications executive, and an entrepreneur. He knows the job search process and how to make it work. He earned a B.A. in history at the State University of New York at Binghamton and a Masters in Italian from Middlebury College.