Interview BetterView: A Job Seeker's Essential Guide to Interviewing Skills

by Thomas Franke

Learn to interview from an expert who has conducted over 10,000 interviews! Essential interviewing skills presented in a concise, common sense way so anyone can improve. This book is packed with useful information for even the most advanced users. All the interview questioning techniques are covered, including lists of sample questions with advice for answers. You will quickly become proficient and comfortable handling any type of question. Then, we will go beyond these expected topics to provide you with a clearer understanding of what is actually occurring during an interview. The conventional thoughts about interviewing will be challenged and you will learn to really impress in your next interview with a new technique called Impression Interviewing! A Job Seeker’s Essential Guide to these Interviewing • Impression Interviewing™ • Job Match Interview Questions • Traditional Interview Questions • Behavioral Interview Questions • Job Competency Models • Questions for You to be Prepared to Ask How will this book give you a BetterView? Hiring managers commonly say they want to hire someone they can trust, who is dependable, likeable, and has good communication skills. Most also need to have a good “gut feeling” about the candidate… but almost none of them can specifically tell you what they look for to measure these qualities. So, knowing this in advance, how do you approach your upcoming interview? This book can help you bridge that gap! We will cover topics such • Introducing a new approach called Impression Interviewing™ that will provide practical techniques for you to control an interviewer’s “gut feel,” your likeability, and the other hard-to-define attributes critical to obtaining that job offer. • Quickly learn to handle Traditional interview questions. • Learn to master Behavioral Interviewing. This approach to questioning has become much more common over the last 20 years and is now used by many companies. • Understand Job Competency Models. These models create the subject matter for the different types of behavioral interview questions. • Develop your List of Questions to Ask the Interviewer. A sample list of questions is provided along with an approach to company research. Strategies are also included for interviewing challenges faced • New College Graduates • Sales Job Seekers • Technical Job Seekers Lacking Interpersonal Skills • Managerial Job Seekers Lacking Supervisory Experience • Job Seekers with a Felony or Misdemeanor Criminal Record • Transitioning Military • Senior Job Seekers About the Tom has personally conducted over 10,000 interviews and placed thousands of candidates in technical and non-technical positions across a wide range of industries. He founded Roundhouse Recruiting in 2008 because of his passion for growing companies and helping individuals to develop their careers. His extensive experience has encompassed all aspects of recruiting and has driven Tom to create advanced solutions to interviewing for both job seekers and hiring managers. Prior to founding Roundhouse Recruiting, Tom held in-house senior human resources management and operations management positions for Fortune 500 and leading regional companies throughout the Eastern US.

137 pages, Kindle Edition

Published April 9, 2020

About the author

Thomas Franke ist Sozialpädagoge und bei einem sozialen Träger für Menschen mit Behinderung tätig. In seiner Freizeit schreibt er gern witzige Geschichten und Fantasy-Romane. Er lebt mit Frau und seinen beiden Kindern in Berlin.

Reviews

[Carrie Daws · Rating 3 out of 5]

This felt like a more technical look at interviewing written by someone with a lot of experience in the interviewer's chair. Most of the examples within the book felt sterile--as in general suggestions rather than sample conversations. I most appreciated the sections later in the book where he did give sample conversations, as well as the discussion of what impressions actually look like in practical terms.

[Tom · Rating 5 out of 5]

Thomas Franke has hit a Grand Slam with Interview BetterView!! I have been hiring and interviewing candidates for more than 35 years. Many times I had a good gut feeling about a candidate and hired them. In the next few weeks my gut feeling became a very sick feeling, as the new employee was a bad hire and created a nightmare to get rid of. Thomas uses a very practical and awesome HR Process to eliminate these bad hires. I wish I could have read Tom’s Book 30 years ago. If you are a hiring manager this is a must read!! This book makes it simple for anyone who is hiring to select the best candidate for the job. If you are seeking employment this book is a must read before you interview. The book gives you the best tool kit for your next interview.

[Kristen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absolutely incredible guide to interviewing! This book was well-written and easy to read, and the information provided was unlike anything I've ever read on the topic of interviewing. Impression Interviewing was an eye-opening topic for me, and I am now very motivated to interview for my next job! This book is fantastic for any type of job seeker--from new graduates to older job seekers to even those with a criminal record. The author breaks through the traditional guides to interviewing to provide new and relevant information. Interviewing does not seem so daunting now that I have read this extremely helpful and logical guide. A must-read for anyone!

[Ruman · Rating 2 out of 5]

As a new graduate in the medical field, Interview BetterView was not what I expected. It is geared more towards those who are changing jobs in a non-medical field (i.e. sales). I will say that Chapter 10 (Introducing Impression Interview) was probably the most helpful for someone in my situation as it gave reminders on how to act in order to show charisma or talent.