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The Five-Minute Interview, 2nd Edition

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In the course of my professional career I've read quite a few books on interview process. I've been both an interviewee and interviewer. This book is by far the best book on interviewing I've ever read and used with great success on both sides of a table, so to speak.

The main premise of this book is that every interview is highly dependent on an individual interviewer. When a candidate comes for an interview (s)he can only guess what an interviewer is looking for. In reality (s)he has no idea.

So, instead of responding to questions with guessing answers, -shooting from the hip so to speak -, the book suggests to spend first 5 minutes of the interview actually interviewing interviewer. Only then, with concrete knowledge of what this particular interviewer is looking for, the candidate can answer intelligently, matching his or her skills, knowledge and experience to particular needs of the interviewer.

Obviously this approach is not for cowards. One needs courage to change the usual interview procedure. It provides you with all the knowledge one needs to have to master and use this approach. I have followed this book with great success as both interviewee and interviewer.

From the book you'll learn all the different interview types and styles; the questions that will provide you with the ultimate knowledge of the company, your future responsibilities, and what it would take to succeed in the particular environment. You will learn how to match your background to the needs of the interviewer for the best results. You'll become and position yourself as an intelligent and competent interviewee.

Buy "The Five-minute Interview," read it, and use it to your great success.

Very helpful strategies. Some basic points that we have to consider and we ussualy don't do. It helped me.

The strategy is explained well, but the interviewer would have to be some type of push-over if they fell for this technique. Good luck.