More Best Answers To the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions

McGraw-Hill, 2001

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It’s not the best candidate that gets the job — it’s the best interviewee.

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This comprehensive, smart book gives you the basics on how to get a job interview, perform well at the interview, end the interview and even negotiate the terms of your benefits if you’re hired. The authors raise and provide answers to several hundred questions - some of them painfully obvious, but some of them pretty tough, like "Why do you have that felony conviction?" getAbstract has the 202nd question: If you’re applying for a job, why haven’t you already read this?

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Reality Check

A resume will only get you in the door; it won’t get you the job. In fact, despite computerization, faxes, on-site job postings and e-mail, the job interview still determines whether or not you actually are hired. Technology still hasn’t replaced the interview as a serious hiring tool.

It’s not necessarily the best candidate who gets the job offer - it is most likely the best interviewee! The desire that people have to meet the mechanic who will fix their cars or to find out about their dentists’ past performance makes the interview important.

The New Workplace

Impelled by new products, new ideas and new ways of doing things, the workplace is changing. The workplace itself is becoming new again to many employees. These changes affect what employers seek in those they hire and what you seek as a prospective employee. Most people no longer believe that they will have one employer for life.

In the future, anyplace can be a workplace and anytime can be work time. As the variety of work places increases, groups of greater ethnic and age diversity will be working together. Family and women-centered businesses will become more important. ...

About the Authors

Matthew J. DeLuca and Nanette F. DeLuca are principals and founders of Management Resource Group Inc., a human resource recruiting and consulting firm. Recent clients include Lifetime TV, DSL.net and Uproar Inc. They have co-authored several books about job hunting.

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H. S. 1 decade ago

This low rating is not for the book but the summary. Best answers to 201 questions and yet there is not a single question stated in the summary.

There are some books that can't be summarized well enough ... this being one. In 5 pages you can't list 201 questions (forget about answers) but at least the summary should have listed some to give the reader an idea of he or she should go for the full book.

Matthew J. Deluca and Nanette F. Deluca