Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions

Your Comprehensive Job Search Guide with over 200 Practice Interview Questions

This book

• Gives an end-to-end guide to securing a job: searching, applying, preparing, interviewing and negotiating • Has sold over 5 million copies across previous editions • Includes over 200 interview questions with expert tips for tackling them • Provides guidance on the trickiest issues facing jobseekers, such as salary negotiations and searching for jobs during tough economic times • New to this edition: brand new content on making a career change

Description

Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions is the essential companion for all jobseekers. With over 5 million copies sold, this bestseller takes you through the whole process: from composing your CV and preparing for interviews, to interview techniques, answering tough questions and even negotiating your new salary. Crammed full of the difficult questions that interviewers might throw at you, Martin John Yate gives you expert tips and suggested answers to tackle the tricky ones including:

Why should I give you the job? What is your biggest weakness? What are your salary expectations? How long would you stay with the company? What is your greatest strength? Why do you want to work here?

Now in its 11th edition, Great Answers to Tough Interview Questions is your indispensable guide to blowing away the competition and landing your dream job.

Author Information

Martin John Yate is an internationally bestselling author. He has held major posts as a director of training and personnel for several international companies and is widely respected as the expert on all career matters. He is also the author of Ultimate CV and Ultimate Cover Letters, both published by Kogan Page. Edition: 11 Date: 03/12/2020 Price: £12.99 Paperback: 9781789666915 Ebook: 9781789666939 Pages: 296 Format (mm): 217x140 Product Category: General Subject: Job Seeking

Table of Contents

Introduction

1 The Well-Stocked Briefcase

1 The realities of job hunting 2 Transferable skills and professional values 3 The productive CV 4 Networking and the successful job search 5 Network-integrated job search tactics

2 Getting to Square One

6 Making contact 7 The telephone interview 8 Dressing for interview success 9 Body language 10 The curtain goes up on the job interview

3 Great Answers to Tough Interview

Questions

11 The five secrets of securing a job offer 12 Why interviewers do the things they do 13 How to knock ’em dead 14 Questions of manageability and team spirit 15 The stress interview and illegal questions 16 Answering unanswerable questions 17 Welcome to the real world 18 The graceful exit

4 Finishing Touches

19 Out of sight, out of mind? 20 Snatching victory from the jaws of defeat 21 Negotiating the offer 22 Multiple interviews, multiple offers 23 Index of questions 24 Index