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- Publisher: Your Coach In A Box; Unabridged edition (Jan 6 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1596592141
- ISBN-13: 978-1596592148
- Product Dimensions: 13.5 x 3.8 x 15.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 240 g
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#426,170 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #83 in Books > Business & Investing > Audiobooks > CD > Career
- #83 in Books > Audiobooks > Audio CDs > Business > Career
- #89 in Books > Reference > Careers > Interviewing
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"The excellent book... includes a wealth of suggestions on how to walk out of an interview with a best offer." -Joyce Lain Kennedy, syndicated career columnist --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
Book Description
Wouldn't it be nice if you could just walk into an employer's office, sit down, relax, answer questions honestly-in short, "just be yourself"-and instantly get the job? Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work like that. With people switching careers more and more often and the competition fierce for every position that becomes available, one has to be primed for any question an interviewer may throw at you.
Packed with more than 450 sample questions, Acing the Interview gives the listener candid advice on answering even the trickiest and most unexpected interview questions. Written by the employment expert Dr. Phil called "the best of the best," this unique and powerful audiobook helps the listener take charge of any interview situation. Having heard just about every conceivable interview question and answer since joining the placement and recruitment field in 1973, Tony Beshara knows firsthand what responses will get someone hired. In this audiobook, he arms listeners with the surefire answers that will keep them from getting weeded out from the large pool of eager applicants.
Acing the Interview helps prepare listeners for difficult-and sometimes even deceptively simple- questions, including:
You really don't have as much experience as we would like-why should we hire you? * How many hours in your previous jobs did you have to work each week to get everything done? * What do you consider most valuable-a high salary, job recognition, or advancement?
In addition, the book also arms you with many questions to ask prospective employers that could prevent you making a big job mistake, such as:
What would you say are the worst parts of this job? * What are the major problems facing the company and this department? * Why aren't you promoting from within?
Acing the Interview takes listeners through the entire process, from the initial interview to evaluating a job offer, and even into salary negotiation. It's a must-have guide that will enable them to get the job of their dreams.
Packed with more than 450 sample questions, Acing the Interview gives the listener candid advice on answering even the trickiest and most unexpected interview questions. Written by the employment expert Dr. Phil called "the best of the best," this unique and powerful audiobook helps the listener take charge of any interview situation. Having heard just about every conceivable interview question and answer since joining the placement and recruitment field in 1973, Tony Beshara knows firsthand what responses will get someone hired. In this audiobook, he arms listeners with the surefire answers that will keep them from getting weeded out from the large pool of eager applicants.
Acing the Interview helps prepare listeners for difficult-and sometimes even deceptively simple- questions, including:
You really don't have as much experience as we would like-why should we hire you? * How many hours in your previous jobs did you have to work each week to get everything done? * What do you consider most valuable-a high salary, job recognition, or advancement?
In addition, the book also arms you with many questions to ask prospective employers that could prevent you making a big job mistake, such as:
What would you say are the worst parts of this job? * What are the major problems facing the company and this department? * Why aren't you promoting from within?
Acing the Interview takes listeners through the entire process, from the initial interview to evaluating a job offer, and even into salary negotiation. It's a must-have guide that will enable them to get the job of their dreams.
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49 of 52 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
He's a salesman, May 22 2011
By Mark Twain - Published on Amazon.com
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He claims he's been a salesman of people for the past 30 years or so. He claims his ideas work 95% of the time. I interview hundreds of students per year for graduate positions. If anyone gave me the attitude or responses that this guys suggests, I'd hang up on them, or end the interview right then. His suggestions are over-cocky and overtly manipulative and pushy. I can summarize the book in a few sentences.1. Call high-up people during work hours and demand an interview. If they don't take your call, keep calling as long as it takes without regard for annoying them.
2. When they pick up, say "I'm smart, hard working, confident, team player...." I hear that all the time. Everyone says it. It doesn't work. Tell me something about yourself, rather than throwing adjectives at me.
3. Immediately say "Should we meet tomorrow morning at 10am or is tomorrow afternoon at 3pm better?" If someone said this to me, I'd hang up. I don't need a new hire being so pushy and manipulative. I want someone that's going to do the job, not someone that's going to try to manipulate others to do the job for them.
There are some practice questions, but the suggested answers are very general, and suggest you to say positive things about yourself.
As I'm trying to switch careers, I spent some of my limited savings and time on this book. Fail. He's a pushy salesman, plain and simple.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Off-putting, May 26 2011
By J. Healy - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Acing the Interview: How to Ask and Answer the Questions That Will Get You the Job (Paperback)
The author spends a great deal of time coaching job seekers to push VERY hard for a piece of a potential employer's time, even if the person in question is not currently seeking an employee. He claims that this has met with great success in all his many years as a head-hunter.That may be true for certain fields, where being pushy to the point of obnoxiousness is viewed as a virtue (sales, for instance), but in the research/medical field this behavior is a fast ticket to a slammed door in your face. No surgeon, doctor, or lab director that I know would take kindly to these sorts of tactics, and to be sure, they would be counter-productive for the unfortunate job-seeker who used them.
I pitched the book in the trash, wrote brief and informational letters to potential employers, followed up with ONE polite phone call, and landed 2 jobs with in 6 weeks. Neither of my new employers was actively seeking a candidate, by the way.
Respect and politeness pays.
16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Want to be a used car salesman?, Jun 5 2011
By AmazonShopper - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Acing the Interview: How to Ask and Answer the Questions That Will Get You the Job (Paperback)
First, I'm highly suspicious of the 5 star reviews as being shills; especially since they all sound similarly canned and the reviewers have reviewed nothing else. So, do you want to be a used car salesman? By all means, read this book. That's about the only job following the author's "tips" will get you. I gave up reading the book past page 100/300, because it's just constant repetition of "hard sell, hard sell, hard sell!!!!". The other 1 and 2 star reviews on this book are quite accurate. Encouragement to harass every single person you know for a job and use cold calling (sorry...the author prefers to call it "warm" calling) aren't going to lead to much success. Common sense says that annoying someone isn't the path to employment. The scripts provided are something you might expect to be given to door to door salesman who just can't take no for an answer. "You don't want to hire me, well let me tell you some more features about myself that will blow you away!"Some of the advice given is useful in a general way, but trying to follow this book to the letter in applying for anything but a sales position is going to turn off a ton of employers. My guess is that the author has no experience getting people technical jobs.
Here's a representative example from the book. Would you hire someone who gives the author's suggested response?:
Interviewer Question:"Have you ever "failed" in a job?"
Author's Suggested Response: "Well, I'm like a ballplayer that never really lost--he just ran out of time."
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