The 250 Job Interview Questions Youll Most Likely Be Asked
The 250 Job Interview Questions Youll Most Likely Be Asked
Grade 10 Up-By following the advice of prominent career planning and human resources expert Peter Veruki, you’ll have the right answer at your job interview.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
User Ratings and Reviews
3 Stars Not a help for non-professionals or those with no “real” job experience
Okay, this book consists of three parts and part II is the biggest part.
Part I is “Before the Job Interview”-three chapters. I found this part of the book to be most helpful for those that have no professional experience or for those that have no work experience.
Part II is the actual questions that you may be asked. So many questions are for those that have worked in sales, management, accounting, system analysis or IT jobs, marketing, fund raising, R & D, those that have customers or clients, HR professionals and and other positions that require decision making for others or require one to be innovative (such as IT).
The types of jobs that I have had did not require me to make decisions for others or to be creative. So for me, the answers given do not help me. To give an example-When I tryed to show some leadership in my past jobs (like manufacturing) I was told to keep quiet and do what I was told to do. (I used to work in manufacturing in the early to mid ’90′s). I also have Asperger Syndrome, so the book does not address the need for specific examples on how to answer a question if you have “this and that experience” but not “A, B, and C”. The author assumes that the readers of this book are all professionals that are between jobs.
Part III of the book is “After the Interview” and is of moderate help to me. As a person that has had only one job as a manager-and that job as a manager was a joke (they did not even provide a name tag for me), do not waste your money on this book.
It was written in 1999 and talks about CD-ROM’s as well. If you do get it, make sure it is a used old copy. It is only worth $1 or less. As I said before, Part I is of the most use for those that are non-professionals.
5 Stars Pretty useful book that prepares well for job interview
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.
3 Stars Helped get me a new job.
Some of the answers they give are so full of @#%& that no one would believe them but just listening to potential questions gave me a chance to formulate my own answers to interview questions which landed me a job as a Deputy Program Manager with a 20% salary increase. This CD easily paid for itself.
3 Stars Very Useful
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.
2 Stars I did not find this book to be very helpful.
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!