June 2nd, 2009 | 
Author: Fearless Interviewing How to Win the Job by Communicating with Confidence
A proactive new strategy for removing anxiety, and regaining control, throughout the job interview process
“Marky Stein’s book is wonderful. She gives us a thorough analysis of the whole interviewing process. Fearless Interviewing is clear, kind, and full of good advice…. Highly recommended.”Barbara Sher, author of Live the Life That You Love
A job interview is one of life’s most stressful and challenging experiences. Fearless Interviewing presents a strategic approach to interviewing, one that tips the scales back in favor of the job applicant. It provides useful advice on all aspects of the interviewing process, including how to:
? Dazzle interviewers in the first 20 seconds
? Handle tough interview questions with ease
? Command a salary up to 20 percent higher
User Ratings and Reviews
5 Stars Best interviewing book ever
Prior to reading, doing the exercises in this book, I had countless interviews that went nowhere. After I used this book, I was the interviewee master guru and talked myself into many job offers. So it works, its not a gimmik, just a tool to help focus ones thoughts, narrow your skills, and maximize your communication.
The book states that 90% of interviews claim the reason they did not hire an interviewee is because they could NOT ARTICULATE their skills in the interview. I would not have thought that about myself, but once I read the book, narrowed and foucused my skills, and practiced (taped myself) I realized what the author was talking about. It is an inexpensive book and worth it! Dont buy a used copy, as there are exercises to do and you will want a blank slate. Buy more than one copy to keep and share with others, I have referred or given this book to many!
5 Stars Excellent Book
Rather than a list of answers to memorize, this book provides training and behaviors to make you come up the answers effortlessly and with credibility. Much better than the answer memorization books that I also have.
5 Stars Feraless Interviewing
This book was very helpful. For the first time I went into an interview feeling well prepared and confident and left feeling good about myself. I knew even if I didn’t get the job, I interviewed well. I loaned this book to a friend and she got a call back for a second interview.
5 Stars Your personal interview coach
I’m a college student seeking internships, and this guide to interviews has been a great investment. Previously, I had a few bad interviews where a question caught me off guard and my brain froze up. After reading this book, those problems were no more! Fearless Interviewing is a terrific “coach” that will help prepare you for all job interviews.
Fearless Interviewing will get you prepared for almost any tough question by helping you organize your personal strengths and skill in an easy-to-remember format. Its process is so simple, that you will wonder why you didn’t think of preparing this way! But the best part of this book, is that it takes you through the tiniest level of details in the interview and tells you the proper thing to do; everything from preparing a packet to hand the interviewer, etiquette and body language, understanding what the interview wants to hear, open-door salary negotiation, and how to write an effective follow-up letter. I found the salary negotiation tactics exceptionally helpful.
The only downside to this book is that it does not cover the mathematical puzzle-type questions you may face in a real hardcore interview, where the employer wants to test “how smart you are.” Most investment banks, consulting firms, and Silicon Valley companies ask seemingly silly math problems to push your brain to the limits, for example, “How many pennies do you think can fit in this room?”
Fearless Interviewing is an excellent general gameplay book for all job interviews, but if you are interviewing to be among the top 1% firms, the best of the best jobs, you may need some additional books to give you some more practice!
4 Stars Do you realize how skilled you really are?
Having been self-employed for the past several years, and then being contacted by a major pharmaceutical company for a face-to-face interview, well, needless to say, I was extremely nervous. This book showed me how to break down my skill set, define exactly and precisely what I am good at, how to frame it in my mind and then pitch it during the interview. It also shows you how to negotiate for a better salary, better compensation package, more vacation time…wow! You need to leave some time to read this book through once and then go back through to do the exercises. It took me quite a while to decide exactly which skills I thought would be prudent for the job I was contacted about, so you will definitely need to be willing to spend time on this. But once you have, you will be able to rewrite your resume in a strong fashion and feel confident about who you are and what you are capable of. I decided to read this book based on a recommendation off the Ask The Headhunter website. That guy has lots of great ideas, you can google him to check out the site for more business related topics.
