Interview Skills That Win the Job: Simple Techniques for Answering All the Tough Questions

156 Pages·2006·2.01 MB·english

by  Michael Spiropoulos

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Interview Skills
that Win the Job
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Interview Skills
that Win the Job
Simple techniques for answering
all the tough questions
MICHAEL SPIROPOULOS
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First published in 2005
Copyright ©Michael Spiropoulos 2005
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Spiropoulos,Michael,1959- .
Interview skills that win the job:simple techniques for
answering all the tough questions.
ISBN 1 74114 188 5.
1. Employment interviewing. I. Title.
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This book is dedicated to
Suzanne Smith
for her love and support
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Contents
Contents
Introduction: The path to interview success ix
1 Interview myths 1
2 Convincing them you’re right for the job 11
3 Can you do the job? 22
4 Same skills, different job 42
5 Your potential to tackle new tasks 49
6 ‘Are you the sort of person we can work with?’ 56
7 Employers love motivated employees 67
8 The ‘big five’ questions 73
9 Building rapport and trust 89
10 Effective answers to common questions 129
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Introduction: The path to
interview success
Introduction: The path to interview success
Interview Skills that Win the Job offers an innovative and exciting
approach to developing interview skills. As well as letting you know
what’s needed to succeed at interviews, it goes one important step
further and demonstrates how you can prepare your own answers
including exercises designed to improve your skills. People who
consistently succeed at interviews are those who take the time to
prepare their own answers rather than simply using answers they
have read or heard elsewhere.
Whether you’re a recent school leaver or a seasoned professional,
this book will show you how to prepare highly effective answers
and how to deliver them in a confident manner whilst establishing
that all-important rapport with interviewers.
The book recognises that one of the major obstacles to successful
interviewing is organising a vast amount of detail about what you’ve
done in previous jobs (or at school or university) and expressing
this information in a clear and convincing way at the interview.
The book has been designed specifically to prevent you from:
• giving those long-winded answers that drive interviewers to
distraction;
• failing to mention important key achievements and kicking
yourself afterwards;