A guide to stunning your interviewer with perfect answers to stumping questions
In today’s competitive job market, a stellar interview lends you an edge over the competition, which can make or break your chances at a new career. Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies, 2nd Edition teaches you how to perform professionally and productively under stressful interview conditions.
With this handy guide, you’ll learn to breeze through tricky questions and accentuate your most impressive qualities. This updated second edition features a ten-step guide to having a great interview, ten tips for projecting confidence, ten techniques for trouble-shooting your job search, 200 tough sample interview questions with detailed advice and model answers, proven strategies to combat nerves, and guidelines for perfecting your social media presence and handling questions that may arise from an online search. There is no need to enter an interview feeling unprepared with this guide by your side.
* Rob Yeung’s holistic approach helps you make a positive first impression
* Shows you how to prepare to answer questions regarding your online presences (and how to avoid embarrassing search results)
* Provides essential preparation so that you can familiarize yourself with tricky questions before embarking on the stressful interviewing process
Whether you’re an entry-level worker or a mid-level professional, Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies prepares you to blow the competition away with your poised and professional responses.
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Introduction 1
Part I: Getting Started with Answering Tough Interview Questions 5
Chapter 1: Understanding the Interviewing Game 7
Chapter 2: Doing Your Job Interview Homework 15
Chapter 3: Polishing Your Interview Performance 25
Part II: Making Sure You Shine in an Interview 33
Chapter 4: Talking About Yourself 35
Chapter 5: Talking about Problems, Perceptions and People 53
Chapter 6: Getting to Grips with Questions about Your Work 73
Chapter 7: Talking About Why You Want a New Job 89
Chapter 8: Thriving Under the Pressure Interview 113
Chapter 9: Succeeding at Competency-Based Interviewing 135
Part III: Dealing with Tricky Questions and Other Situations 157
Chapter 10: Responding to Questions for Graduates and School Leavers 159
Chapter 11: Handling Questions Aimed at Experienced Candidates 175
Chapter 12: Handling Hypothetical and Analytical Questions 195
Chapter 13: Coping with Illegal and Personal Questions 209
Chapter 14: Taking Control in Unusual Situations 229
Part IV: Securing the Job of Your Dreams 239
Chapter 15: Asking Great Questions 241
Chapter 16: Dotting ‘I’s and Crossing ‘T’s 249
Part V: The Part of Tens 259
Chapter 17: Ten Cardinal Sins of Interviewing 261
Chapter 18: Ten Steps to Delivering a Great Interview 267
Chapter 19: Ten Top Tips for Projecting a Confident You 275
Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Troubleshoot Your Job Search 281
Index 287
Sobre el autor
Rob Yeung, Ph D is a business psychologist specialising in research and consulting in the fields of high achievement and peak performance. He is the author of more than twenty books.
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