Product Description: Picking up where his bestseller (over 55,000 sold) 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions left off, Matthew DeLuca along with Nanette DeLuca take job seekers to the next level of job-search effectiveness by arming them with more valuable lessons, tips, and rules for acing any interview. Emphasizing the interpersonal aspects of the interview process, they draw on their unique experiences as job placement professionals to provide powerful insights into what interviewers look for in a job seeker and how to give it to them. Organized around question categories for quick-reference, and packed with real-life success stories and the candid observations of job placement professionals, this book tells readers what they need to know about:
- How to stand out from the rest and get an interview - Understanding the rationale behind different types of questions - Fielding curve balls, stress producers, and illegal questions - Mastering the virtual interview
Got the dream job This is an excellent book for military retirees and others who have not interviewed for jobs in recent times. Most important is how it walks you through thinking out the process of what you want and need.
The first book was much, much better. If you have already read the first book "Best Answers...", and you read it carefully, you are not likely to find the sequel to be of the same value. I noticed the second book has a co-author, and you can feel it from the text. The new 201 questions are quite plain and are not as interesting or challenging as the first 201 in the first book.
There is a lot in the text that is just common knowledge. I also found some questionable advices. Chapter 2 "how to get interviews" tells you to find phone numbers of line managers and call them directly asking for an interview. If you are a professional with experience seeking for a senior position, I doubt you would be hired this way. I think it shows disrespect to the managers' busy schedule.
Chapters 6 and 7 are trying to give you some basics on how to prepare for an interview. You can find information on it of about the same quality in almost every interviewing book. There are also other books that are doing it better.
Overall, an OK book (I've seen worse), but don't expect it to be as thrilling as the first one. Oh, well... That's pretty typical for a sequel.
You can also read my review for the first book.
Insightful! This comprehensive, smart book gives you the basics on how to get a job interview, perform well at the interview, end the interview and even negotiate the terms of your benefits if you're hired. The authors raise and provide answers to several hundred questions - some of them painfully obvious, but some of them pretty tough, like "Why do you have that felony conviction?" We from getAbstract have the 202nd question: If you're applying for a job, why haven't you already read this?
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