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 | | Boost Your Interview IQ by Carole Martin ISBN-10: 9780071425476 ISBN-10: 0-07-142547-0 ISBN-13: 9780071425476 ISBN-13: 978-0-07-142547-6 Paperback 2003-12-17 McGraw-Hill Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description How to become an interview genius and land the job of your dreams If a job interview is an oral exam in which job seeker must give the right answers to a set of questions in order to get hired, then this is the ultimate guide to acing the exam. Written by The Interview Coach at Monster.com, Boost Your Interview IQ offers an enjoyable, interactive way to prepare for and succeed at any job interview. Combining the features of a step-by-step guide and a skill-building workbook, it:
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Download Description How to become an interview genius and land the job of your dreams If a job interview is an oral exam in which job seeker must give the right answers to a set of questions in order to get hired, then this is the ultimate guide to acing the exam. Written by The Interview Coach at Monster.com, Boost Your Interview IQ offers an enjoyable, interactive way to prepare for and succeed at any job interview. Combining the features of a step-by-step guide and a skill-building workbook, it:
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Quick review, pre-interview Didn't find a lot of new info here, but do find Boost Your Interview IQ a useful quick read the night before an interview. | ||
Read this before your behavioral interview 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. | ||
With a little imagination, you can ace the interview 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. | ||
Excellent Advice, But Needs Wider Range of Examples 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. | ||
TOP 10 CAREER BOOK ON JOB INTERVIEWING IN 2004 Originally posted on Monstor.com TOP 10 CAREER BOOK ON JOB INTERVIEWING IN 2004 - BOOST YOUR INTERVIEW IQ BOOK ON LIST WITH LOU DOBBS, STEPHEN COVEY AND HARVEY MACKAY San Francisco, CA (January 27, 2005) Carole Martin, The Interview Coach, and Monster.com's interview expert, announced that her book Boost Your Interview IQ was voted by Impact Publications as one of the top 10 ten career books for 2004. Impact Publications has published over 100 books on employment issues and has over 3,000 career products in both catalogs and online bookstores. Boost Your Interview IQ is on the same top 10 career list with successful best selling authors Lou Dobbs, Stephen Covey, and Harvey Mackay. According to a book review posted by a job seeker on Monster.com, "My resume was getting me a foot in the door, but I was not interviewing well so I bought Boost Your Interview IQ. The book arrived the day after I found out that I had a chance to interview at the top company in the area. The end result was that after two rounds of interviews - I GOT THE JOB! The HR director told me that while they were amazed by how many qualified candidates they had, I stood out because it was clear how much homework I had done. I credit the book with giving me an excellent framework to focus my time and energy where it would really pay off." Boost Your Interview IQ is able to deliver results like this to many job seekers because it includes a step-by-step guide and a skill-building workbook to prepare for and succeed at any job interview. The book: Features an Interview IQ Test, interview skill-building exercises, and other interview aptitude boosting tools. Shows job seekers how to craft job-winning answers to the 50 key questions interviewers ask. Teaches candidates how to shape their experiences into stories that showcase their skills, knowledge, and personalities. Offers proven techniques for acing the behavioral interview--the popular new wave interviewing strategy. | ||