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Interview Strategy: The Next Move Is Yours
We are all the CEOs of our own companies. This book offers stiff advice on how to face an angry interview panel and unveils preparation techniques thatto give the reader a real reason to be confident. Using questions and answer sessions on paper, Finucan prepares the interviewer for the verbal exam that is the interview while offering insight into career direction.
246 pages, Paperback
Published January 1, 2017
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January 20, 2025
It's a pity this book isn't more widely read and reviewed. I picked it up at the library on a whim, if anything because it gave me pause to think about what interviewing at "higher" levels might be like. But it was so much more.
Where this book shines is that it covers in far more depth the context around the concept of interviewing; that interviewing is a skill, and one that you don't get better at by just learning "how to interview", but rather by looking at the context of you even thinking about interviewing in the first place.
It forces you to think about things like what you want out of a job, a career, and what your motivations are and have been in the lead up to the current day, the career moves you've made, and the people who got you there. And they bring up an excellent point: thinking about these, allow you to be far more sincere in the interviewing process. It allows you to have conversations and build relationships, to not take interviewing so seriously but rather treat it as just one more thing everybody does often as part and parcel of professional life.
One of the final chapters also talks about how fear of job loss stems a lot from fear of the activities associated with job loss - about having to dust off that resume and going through interviews that people just feel so uncomfortable at. If we can make interviewing not so dreadful or even fun (gasp!) we'd feel so much calmer even in the midst of what might seem like career chaos.
Along with the book "60 Seconds and You're Hired!", this book now ranks among the best books on interviewing I've read.
Where this book shines is that it covers in far more depth the context around the concept of interviewing; that interviewing is a skill, and one that you don't get better at by just learning "how to interview", but rather by looking at the context of you even thinking about interviewing in the first place.
It forces you to think about things like what you want out of a job, a career, and what your motivations are and have been in the lead up to the current day, the career moves you've made, and the people who got you there. And they bring up an excellent point: thinking about these, allow you to be far more sincere in the interviewing process. It allows you to have conversations and build relationships, to not take interviewing so seriously but rather treat it as just one more thing everybody does often as part and parcel of professional life.
One of the final chapters also talks about how fear of job loss stems a lot from fear of the activities associated with job loss - about having to dust off that resume and going through interviews that people just feel so uncomfortable at. If we can make interviewing not so dreadful or even fun (gasp!) we'd feel so much calmer even in the midst of what might seem like career chaos.
Along with the book "60 Seconds and You're Hired!", this book now ranks among the best books on interviewing I've read.
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