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The 250 Job Interview Questions You'll Most Likely Be Asked... And The Answers That Will Get You Hired!

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As the title suggests, the book lists the most common interview questions. If you have no idea what those questions are, then you might find the book somewhat helpful.
Along with each question there is an example answer which usually does not apply to the reader. After each example answer there is a brief snippet about how you should try to to answer that type of question. Unfortunately, these snippets are far too brief to be of much help to the reader (some are a single sentence). If there were more emphasis put on how to answer the question, and less space given to the example answers, I think it would have been a more useful book.
I suggest "the Unofficial Guide to Acing the Interview" by Michelle Tullier, published by Hungry Minds. This book will help you get into the proper frame of mind for your interview. It will also help you understand the employer's underlying concerns behind those tough interview questions. When you know why the employer is asking a question, you can form your best answer.
Good luck!

This book is not for job seekers that have been on at least one job interview. The author covers 250 questions in 150 pages, which basically means there is little worthwhile analysis behind each question and answer. If you are looking to regurgitate the answers presented in this book, be my guest and use it as a reference. But as a graduate student at Stanford University, I found little useful information contained in this book and would not recommend using it in your job search either.

There are some good tips about strategies and about the importance of hitting on broad themes, but, like most books of its kind, it is too general to be of much value.

As an Executive Recruiter, I found this book to be quite helpful. I was able to see the potential in all the questions and not only from an interviewers point of view, but as a candidate. I made a list of "tough" and "my favorite" interview questions and email them to my candidates and clients. This way they are prepared. I also suggest to my candidates that they use the questions as a guideline to formulate thier own questions for the company. An interview works both ways.
I recommend this book as a staple for recruiters, HR Managers, and candidates. It's best to over prepare, than under prepare.

This is actually an excellent book that acts as a starting point to prepare your interviews.

The early sections are a good framework to prepare a solid speech on why you're out there looking for a job, what your motivations are, what value you can bring etc.

The list of questions may seem boring but it's clearly an invitation to do your homework. Sit down and practice, practice and practice. This type of work isn't the kind of involvement your hear very frequently and I know very few people who have enough to actually do it.

This book will help you be prepared for pretty much any type of questions, as long as you put down the required practice hours. Just zipping through it once or twice will do you no good. It'll give you the feeling that you're prepared when in fact your not. The only way to make the most of this very good book is to actually practice every question aloud, in front of someone else if you have to.

This is an excellent preparation tool, that you should acquire early in your job search quest, as glancing over it won't unleash the power it contains.

If you are not comfortable with the interview process, all the information that you can collect in advance will be a great help to you. Here is a good place to start.

These questions, or some form there of, will appear in an interview. The wise reader will take each one a prepare an answer just in case. This process of preparation will build confidence and provide insight into the entire process.

The book is not a great literary work, but it gets the point across. It will provide knowledge into the terrifying world of the interview, and should help build one's skills for when the time comes.

Anyone looking for a career change or just starting out should definitely read this book. The questions and answers are very informative. I was especially impressed with the section on Illegal Interview Questions. I've been asked these type of questions in the past, but was unsure on how to respond to them. Now if they ever come up again in the future, I will be prepared!

This book has some good questions to practice before interviews, but don't pay much attention to the answers given. If one tries to tailor his answers to sound like the ones given, he will sound too much like he's reading from a script. Read the explanations of how your answer should be and then practice responding to the particular questions in front of a mirror or with someone posing as an interviewer. Other than the interesting questions, the other information is very basic and can be found in any book on interviewing. The explanations of what a good answer should sound like are ok but a bit too overly simplistic. For example, in the question about getting fired the author says that one should be honest and say that you've corrected the problem. In answering questions about getting fired, one needs to know how to say this. Otherwise, you will be setting yourself up for disaster. Also, I believe that the sample answers given are a mostly a waste. The answers given are way too specialized.

Great questions. This really got me thinking. I loved the creative ones like, "What Color is your brain?" I went with green because I'm usually quite calm and I'm good at calming people down.

This book is highly valuable to help prepare for an interview where the interviewer will be asking situational-questions, which many people do. The Stanford graduate who gave the book one star seemed to think that the main purpose of the book was to provide the interviewee with THE answers to the various interview questions. The answers to the questions will necessarily depend on the interviewee's own background and experience. It is not the intent of the book to provide the answer that will suffice in all situations.

The value of the book is that it provides a safe forum for the interviewee to peruse the types of questions that will likely be asked in an interview and provides the person time to think through and develop the answers that apply to his/her situation. After bombing an interview with a pharmaceutical company 10 years ago, I went through all of the questions in this book and sailed through 5 interviews with another global company. After I was hired, I was complimented on my interviewing skills. I have moved up the ranks of my current company and, today, I use the book to supplement the questions we ask of new hires that apply for positions within our company. As with most things, you will get something out of it if you put something into it :) Have fun with it and good luck with your new opportunity.