Winning at Interview - Softcover

Jones, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1843451476 ISBN 13: 9781843451471

Publisher: Random House ebooks, 2001

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Contents1) Preparation Prevents Poor Performance 7) A Word About Humility2) So- Communicate 8) Don't Shoot the Messenger3) Your Five Point Plan 9) The End Game4) Dead Zone One 10) Questions for You to Ask5) Why Should I Give You the Job? 11) Dead Zone Two6) Who's Got the Cheese? 12)Who's Got the Ball?13) Extending the Olive Branch

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Review

We have all been called for an interview at some point in our lives. We have all come away either elated or disappointed at our performance, and afterwards we have all been dumbfounded when that polite rejection letter drops through the letterbox. What did I do wrong? is that familiar question that haunts us at the dead of night.

Having told us How to Write a Winning CV in his previous book, and thus helped us get our foot in the door, Alan Jones now tells us in Winning at Interview that the first thing we require is a change of attitude. He argues that if we treated job hunting like a game, we would notice that the eventual winner is not necessarily the best person for the job. "Indeed," Jones says, "the best person for the job is often eliminated in the first half ... [T]he winner of the game will always be the player who has played the game the best." Knowing how to play the game is the secret of success."

In 13 short chapters, Jones takes us through the interview process, from preparation to post-interview. Jones illustrates, among other things, how an ill-thought-out reply to a seemingly innocuous question like "How was your journey?" can destroy your chances of getting that much sought-after job.