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The Interview Kit

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This book is extremely helpful in formulating strategies designed to help you win in the interview. Particularly helpful were the "performance voids" strategy and the "perfect candidate" strategy. Both are powerful techniques for helping you turn the interview around! Also, the chapter on "damage control in the interview" shows you how to handle negative information and shift the negative into a positive! This alone is well worth the price of the book! This is definitely a "must read" for the serious job seeker who wants to end up with the job offer! Great book!

Excellent resource for all types of potential questions. Easy format to follow and practice with. Applicable to a wide variety of job classifications. Provides both confidence and self-esteem. Recommended to anyone who is weak in the interview phase of recruitment.

Job-finding expert Richard H. Beatty approaches a job interview like a general planning a battle. He talks strategy, from preparation to planning to execution. The target: making a good impression. He provides tips on what to do to win the job and how to avoid making mistakes that doom the interview and plunge you into instant defeat. While some suggestions seem like common sense, you can't have too much of that in a competitive market. The book is particularly strong in its coverage of specific questions to anticipate and the types of responses to offer. We recommend this book to people who just showed up in the job market and to those in the early stages of waging this war. Most well-established job soldiers already command these skills - otherwise they'd be on the sidelines.

This book of 224 could be condensed to 124 without losing anything but the author's repetition of certain phrases. Some of the strategies mentioned are worthwhile, if a bit common sense (i.e. don't say a weakness that will disqualify you from the job--duh!), but most of the book is fluff.

And the 500 questions? More like 30 or so. The author groups maybe 50 questions together at the start of each chapter, questions that are virtually identical ("What is your main weakness?", "Where do you see room for improvement in yourself?" "If I asked a coworker, what negative thing would he say about yourself?") and then a common strategy is proposed for all of them (which almost always consists of "don't say something that would disqualify you from the job."

The only positives in this book are some of the insights drawn from his experiences in headhunting life. Some of the strategies are good, but common sensical.