Description

"Interview technique books are usually written with the assumption that the reader is stupid, dispensing such sound advice as 'Don't turn up for that CEO interview having consumed 8 pints of premium lager and wearing jogging pants.' What I am doing with this book is offering you a way into the mind of the interviewer so that you can anticipate the kind of questions you're likely to be asked and more importantly have some great answers at your fingertips. What makes me qualified to write this? Being brilliantly qualified yet turned down after the first interview, I began to think about the interview process and how I might have handled some of those tricky questions rather better. Later I became a salesperson and that taught me that answering interview questions and selling things have a lot in common. Then I started up my own training business, and guess what! The same techniques worked there as well. After all, in all three cases you're trying to motivate someone to see that it's in their interests to do exactly what you want – oh, and preferably think that it was their idea in the first place. This book's the result of a business lifetime of asking and answering questions." Ken Langdon. Topics covered include: understanding what your potential employer wants to hear; researching their business; overcoming tough questions; recognising the power; understanding their culture; being true to yourself; and selling your uniqueness. With the "52 Brilliant Ideas" series readers can enhance their existing skills with negligible investment of time or money and will substantially improve their performance over the course of a year. Each of the 52 chapters tackles a single aspect of the subject in an entertaining and lively way. At the end of each chapter is a "how did it go?" feature which allows readers to reflect on the lesson in a classical experiential learning pattern. The tone of each book is personal and informal; readers will feel as thought they are having a one-to-one with their favourite coach.