Is the thought of an upcoming job interview keeping you awake at night?
While looking for a new job and going through hiring interviews can be exciting for some people, for many of us it can be a stressful experience.
Searching for and landing a job can be a stressful, demoralizing experience, especially… if you don't know how to do it properly. The 'old ways' don't work anymore. Finding rewarding work... is work!
Your resume got you the interview. Now what?
You're Hired! Job Interview Preparation -- Job Search Strategies That Work, systematically builds your skills to excel at interview questions and help you sleep at night.
You will learn how to how to prepare for your job interview and how to anticipate and answer questions in a manner that lead towards your successful landing of a job. Your job.
This book offers strategic tactics to maximize your job interviewing effectiveness.
The content is excerpted from You’re Hired! Job Search Strategies That Work, with bonus articles covering a range of frequently asked questions about job interviewing.
You're Hired! Job Interview Preparation -- Job Search Strategies That Work puts you to work in learning how to use ‘best practices’ to land your ‘dream’ job.
If you are a sports fan, you will recognize that any sport has a set of rules and varying degrees of competition. Searching for a job, your job, is a competitive situation. It could come down to two or more possible candidates, hopefully you, being one of them, having very similar qualifications.
Hiring managers are under pressure to hire the right candidate. Your task is to become the only choice. The right choice!
1. Welcome!
Section One: Introduction to Job Interviewing
2. The Initial Phone Call
3. Introduction to the First Interview
4. Dress for Success
5. Organizing Your Presentation
6. You Got an Interview. Now what?
7. Job Interview Dos
8. Job Interview Don’ts
Section Two - Four Basic Interviewer Personality Types: Overview
9. Type 1 are Outgoing and Direct
10. Type 2 are Self Contained and Direct
11. Type 3 are Self Contained and Indirect
12. Type 4 are Outgoing and Indirect
Section Three: Interview Questions
13. Common Interview Questions
14. Interview Questions to Assess Your Education
15. Work Experience Questions
16. Resume Related Interview Questions
17. General Interview Questions
18. Questions to Assess Your Analytic Skills
19. Communication Skills Assessment Questions
20. Decision-Making Process Questions
21. What Would Others Say About You Interview Questions
22. Strengths vs Weaknesses Interview Questions
23. Supervisor Role Specific Questions
24. Personal ‘Get to Know You’ Type Interview Questions
25. Illegal Interview Questions
26. Be a STAR!
27. Questions to Ask an Interviewer
28. Using “Tie Down” Techniques to Move the Interview Along
29. Job Search/Interview Mistakes & How to Correct Them
30. Making the Follow-up Phone Call
Section Four: Additional Resources
31. Whole Lotta Shaking Going On
32. Your USP
33. Legal vs Illegal Job Interview Questions Handout
34. Behavioral/Competency Based Interview Questions Handout
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