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More Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions

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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.

There is a fairly comprehensive list of questions that this book covers, this will help in an interview. There are good tips for job hunting too, but most of it is common sense stuff.

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.

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?