Acing the Interview: How to Ask and Answer the Questions That Will Get You the Job - Softcover

Beshara, Tony

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ISBN 10: 0814401619 ISBN 13: 9780814401613

Verlag: Amacom, 2008

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TONY BESHARA is owner and president of Babich Associates, the oldest placement firm in Texas. He is the author of The Job Search Solution, Acing the Interview, and Unbeatable R'sum's. He has appeared numerous times on the nationally syndicated Dr. Phil show.

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Wouldn't it be nice if you could just walk into an employer's office, sit down, relax, answer questions honestly—in short, "just be yourself"—and instantly get the job? Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work like that. With people switching careers more and more often and the competition fierce for every position that becomes available, you've got to be primed for any question an interviewer may throw at you.

Packed with more than 450 sample questions, Acing the Interview gives you candid advice on answering even the trickiest and most unexpected interview questions. Written by the employment expert Dr. Phil called “the best of the best," this unique and powerful book helps you take charge of any interview situation. Having heard just about every conceivable interview question and answer since joining the placement and recruitment field in 1973, Tony Beshara knows firsthand what responses will get you hired. In this book, he arms you with the surefire answers that will keep you from getting weeded out from the large pool of eager applicants.

Acing the Interview helps prepare you for difficult—and sometimes even deceptively simple— questions, including:

You really don’t have as much experience as we would like—why should we hire you? • How many hours in your previous jobs did you have to work each week to get everything done? • What do you consider most valuable—a high salary, job recognition, or advancement?

In addition, the book also arms you with many questions to ask prospective employers that could prevent you making a big job mistake, such as:

What would you say are the worst parts of this job? • What are the major problems facing the company and this department? • Why aren't you promoting from within?

Acing the Interview takes you through the entire process, from the initial interview to evaluating a job offer, and even into salary negotiation. It's a must-have guide that will enable you to get the job of your dreams.

Tony Beshara has been in the placement and recruitment profession since 1973 and is the owner of Babich and Associates, the oldest placement and recruitment firm in the Southwest. He has appeared numerous times on the nationally syndicated Dr. Phil Show. He is the author of The Job Search Solution. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

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Wouldn't it be nice if you could just walk into an employer's office, sit down, relax, answer questions honestlyin short, "just be yourself"and instantly get the job? Unfortunately, the real world doesn't work like that. With people switching careers more and more often and the competition fierce for every position that becomes available, you've got to be primed for any question an interviewer may throw at you.

Packed with more than 450 sample questions, Acing the Interview gives you candid advice on answering even the trickiest and most unexpected interview questions. Written by the employment expert Dr. Phil called the best of the best," this unique and powerful book helps you take charge of any interview situation. Having heard just about every conceivable interview question and answer since joining the placement and recruitment field in 1973, Tony Beshara knows firsthand what responses will get you hired. In this book, he arms you with the surefire answers that will keep you from getting weeded out from the large pool of eager applicants.

Acing the Interview helps prepare you for difficultand sometimes even deceptively simple questions, including:

You really dont have as much experience as we would likewhy should we hire you? How many hours in your previous jobs did you have to work each week to get everything done? What do you consider most valuablea high salary, job recognition, or advancement?

In addition, the book also arms you with many questions to ask prospective employers that could prevent you making a big job mistake, such as:

What would you say are the worst parts of this job? What are the major problems facing the company and this department? Why aren't you promoting from within?

Acing the Interview takes you through the entire process, from the initial interview to evaluating a job offer, and even into salary negotiation. It's a must-have guide that will enable you to get the job of your dreams.

Tony Beshara has been in the placement and recruitment profession since 1973 and is the owner of Babich and Associates, the oldest placement and recruitment firm in the Southwest. He has appeared numerous times on the nationally syndicated Dr. Phil Show. He is the author of The Job Search Solution. He lives in Dallas, Texas.

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Acing the Interview

How to Ask and Answer the Questions That Will Get You the JobBy Tony Beshara

AMACOM

Copyright © 2008 Tony Beshara
All right reserved.
ISBN: 978-0-8144-0161-3

Contents

Prologue.................................................................................................................viiPART I Today's Hiring Authority and You.................................................................................1Chapter 1 What Today's Job Seekers Need to Know About Themselves and Their Competition...................................3Chapter 2 What Today's Job Seekers Need to Know About Today's Hiring Authorities and Their Companies.....................15Chapter 3 How and with Whom to Get an Interview..........................................................................27Chapter 4 Important Reminders About Interviews...........................................................................55Chapter 5 Acing the Initial Interview....................................................................................67Chapter 6 Supporters: Great Assets or Your Worst Nightmare...............................................................85PART II The Four Types of Qualifying Questions..........................................................................95Chapter 7 Can You Do the Job?............................................................................................97Chapter 8 Do I/We Like You?..............................................................................................123Chapter 9 Are You a Risk?................................................................................................139Chapter 10 Can We Work the Money Out?....................................................................................169Chapter 11 Illegal Questions.............................................................................................177PART III Asking Your Own Questions of Yourself, Your Recruiter, and Your Potential Employer.............................181Chapter 12 Questions to Ask Yourself Even Before the Interviewing Process................................................183Chapter 13 Questions to Ask Before the Initial Interview.................................................................193Chapter 14 Questions to Ask in the Initial Interview.....................................................................197Chapter 15 Questions to Ask Yourself After Each Interview................................................................211Chapter 16 Questions to Ask in Interviews Beyond the Initial Interview...................................................215Chapter 17 Questions You Can Ask at the Time of an Offer.................................................................227Chapter 18 Questions You Must Ask Yourself When You Get an Offer.........................................................249Chapter 19 Reference Checking Your Next Employer.........................................................................255Epilogue.................................................................................................................259Appendix Some Important Lists for Job Hunters............................................................................261Index....................................................................................................................271About the Author.........................................................................................................279

Chapter One

What Today's Job Seekers Need to Know About Themselves and Their Competition

This book is about how to answer and ask questions in the interviewing process so that you, the candidate, can get the best job possible. In order to answer questions correctly so that you can get a job offer, as well as ask questions so that you can evaluate a job offer, you need to be aware of your condition, so to speak, as a job candidate.

The emphasis of this book is not just to know how to answer and ask questions skillfully, but to put into context those answers and questions so that you can not only get a job offer, but choose the right one. Over the last few years, the context—that is, the market, the rules, the situation, etc.—of being a job applicant has drastically changed. The job search market is always erratic and highly volatile, and the past few years have been no exception.

There is a phenomenal amount of paradox in the context of being a job candidate today. On one hand, the U.S. economy has been adding over 110,000 new jobs every month for about the past two years. Unemployment has held at about 4.5% of the working population—close to a six-year low and a far cry from 6% to 6.3% in the early 2000s. But, even though the economy, on paper, is expanding, there is a phenomenal amount of erraticism with businesses in the United States.

We will discuss the context of the average U.S. company (if there is such a thing as "average" in today's markeplace) and the hiring authorities in those firms in the next chapter. In this chapter, I'm going to describe the context of today's job seeker. If you understand this context, answering and asking questions in the interviewing process is going to be a lot easier. You will understand better how to get the best possible job.

Gone are the days of looking for a job and at the same time seeking a "career path" within that same firm. If, as a job candidate today, you ask a hiring authority what the career path with the company will be, you will either get a big lie or, if the hiring authority is honest, you'll get a blank stare, a pregnant pause, and a truthful answer of, "I really don't know."

Keep in mind that my perspective comes from personally working with thousands of hiring managers since 1973. I am personally on the front lines of dealing with hiring on a daily basis and have been since I began in this profession. Our firm deals with hundreds of companies on a monthly basis and thousands on a yearly basis.

This book is going to relate to you the context of real, in the trenches, frontline U.S. businesses and hiring in this country. Keep in mind that the vast majority of businesses in the United States employ fewer than 100 people. I will get into it further in the next chapter, but suffice it to say, most businesses do not, contrary to popular belief, operate with common sense and distinct business acumen. The sad truth is that many businesses in this country lack common sense and can be greedy and ignorant (often reflecting the people who run them). In spite of these negative factors, the U.S. business climate is still the most successful in the world and it will continue to be.

As a candidate, however, when you go to answer or ask questions in the interviewing process, you need to be aware that the vast majority of U.S. businesses and U.S. business people do not operate with pristine theory or foolproof business acumen. Complaining about it won't do any good. You just have to deal with it.

Putting Yourself in Context

In order to perform well in the questioning of the interviewing process, you need to recognize a little bit about yourself and your peers looking for a job in today's market. If you understand your own context, as well as the context of the people you are interviewing with, successful interviewing will be easy.

As mentioned above, the idea of going to work for an organization and building a career path for any reasonable length of time simply isn't realistic. This is the reality of the context of...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Amacom
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0814401619
• ISBN 13: 9780814401613
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
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