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Boost Your Interview IQ

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This is one of the few interviewing books that covers the new trend, "behavioral interviews". Martin gives specific examples and then explains why particular answers are best, which is very effective. She also gives some helpful advice about behavioral interviews in general.

However, her examples are almost all drawn from marketing, sales and management. For someone in these fields, this is probably a plus, but for someone in a different field, the examples became repetitive after a while. Even though her advice can be applied to any job, it would have helped to have some examples from different types of jobs - technical jobs in particular. Even though more people are working in technical fields, books about interviewing don't often address their particular problems and questions.

I worked at a Fortune 500 computer company that used behavioral interviewing (where the interviewer says "Tell me about a time . . .").

If you read this book and Carole's examples, you can see how to present your experience in a way that impresses. My wife is a book editor and although the book doesn't cover this particular career, we went over her experiences and created a way to talk about them.

Unless you were a corporate drone who never though outside the box (or even much inside it) you can point out the ways where you added a little extra to the way you did the job. If you can't think of such remarks you're just appear to be a faceless job applicant who has no worthwhile features, no matter what your real experiences.

The way to use this book is to read all the examples, and especially take note of the best and second-best way of giving an answer. Eventually you'll learn what to say for any interview.

I'd rather not have to say something like "Oh yes, I always worked hard at my last job" (which is not 100 percent true and sounds phoney). I'd rather use the behavioral technique and say that a co-worker went in on a Saturday to make up a couple of hours, found that a huge amount of work had been dumped on us, and split the work by e-mailing half of it to me at home, which took up most of my time on that weekend (which actually was true).

I know which one would impress an employer.

As a person who has spent many years as a professional in corporate America and having been interviewed and been part of the interview process many times, I can think of no better way to prepare than to read Carole Martin's interview book.

Interviewing is basically a structured question and answer session. The person who responds best to the many questions posed by the interviewer will most likely get the job.

There are few if any questions in the interview process that are not discussed in Carole's book. The questions are presented in a precise, easy to understand manner, followed by answers ranging from the strong or the best answer to the weakest or worst answer.

If I had just one book on my shelf to help me prepare for an interview, I would easily choose this book.

I found "Boost Your Interview IQ" to be completely different from other advice books on landing a job in that it tells you specifically how to answer all the possible questions you'll be asked. It covers 50 of the most commonly asked interview questions, including, "Why were you fired?", "Why have you been out of work for so long?", and just about every other potential question you can think of. The book gives three potential answers for each question, ranks each on a strong, mediocre, or weak scale, and explains why the answers rank the way they do. I'm an author (Never Be Late Again, 7 Cures for the Punctually Challenged), and when I'm finished promoting my book, I'll be rejoining the workforce. This book will be my constant companion. Great book!

This book was superb. It specifically addresses traditional interviews and then behavioral interviews. It clearly gives you 50 questions to expect and the great, so-so and poor responses. The ROI on this book for the interviewee has to be very high.

Don't make the size of the book fools you, it's one of the best written books about Interviews and there questions.
It doesn't matter where you are or what you do, it's always those annoying questions you face, you will really be surprised when attending interviews how is this process is easy after reading that book.
With multiple answers it will boost your interview IQ and make you reach the perfect answer.
Well done and thanks a million for the writer.

This is the book for the person who is jobless and needs to know how to improve their interview techniques. What a great book. Quick shop and packed well

A very good book for those individuals who hire employees on a regualar basis. This book provides 50 interview questions and 3 typical answers, posed as a test. The author rates each answer and informs you why one answer to the questions has more merit then the other answers and why. I bought 4 more books to give to my newest District Managers.

I already know how to dress for an interview, not bad-mouth previous bosses, and talk about my strengths. I'm also a long-time people pleaser who majored in people reading in the school of life, so I can generally tell when to keep going and when to stop talking. Beyond those elementary basics, lately I've been feeling stumped about how to prepare for an interview.

A friend sent me this book just before I found out I'll be interviewing for A Dream Job at A Dream Company, so you can imagine my relief and excitement when I found that Martin gives practical, specific examples of how to answer those tricky behavioral questions and why one answer is better than another.

By the time I went through the Interview IQ test, I had an excellent feel for how to structure and word stories to illustrate my capabilities. Then the book went on to help me use job descriptions to figure out exactly what personal qualities and experiences I should emphasize. Now I'm writing out a stable of stories to keep on hand during the interview and planning to practice using them in a mock interview with a talented, smart friend who can give me an honest critique.

I feel empowered, confident, and ready to show how I'm the solution to an HR manager's problem based on evidence from my own past, not (as before) terrified of defending myself and trying to prove my abilities.

Thank you, Ms. Martin, and, to those wondering if this book is worth the price, I think it would be a steal at five times what you'll pay for it!

I got the first job I interviewed for right out of college and ended up staying there for over four years. When I began to start looking for other jobs I only had one professional interview under my belt. This book helped me prepare and interview with confidence.