Feb 20th, 2010
Landing the Job You Want: How to Have the Best Job Interview of Your Life
- ISBN13: 9780609804087
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
You’ve looked at dozens of books that promise to help you get a job. This book is different. This book is written by an executive whose business is teaching managers how to interview job candidates. He knows what they’re looking for–and how you can successfully prepare for landing that job you really want.
Through interactive and easy-to-follow exercises, Landing the Job You Want equips you to make your next job interview one of the most positive experiences of your life. Whether you’re a recent college grad searching for a first job, a corporate veteran looking for that big promotion, an at-home mom starting a new career, or an experienced worker looking to move in a totally new direction, you will walk into interviews prepared and confident because you know how to:
- identify the skills most important for a job
- decide whether a job is right for you
- present your skills with maximum impact
- respond to difficult questions
- perform well in simulations and tests
- handle an ill-prepared interviewer
- close an interview on a positive note
- critique your own interview performance
Each exercise in Landing the Job You Want is designed to help you look within yourself to identify your strengths and your weaknesses. You’ll learn how to quickly develop a portfolio of skills that match your ideal job, and you’ll understand exactly what your interviewer is looking for in a candidate. You’ll be ready to dazzle your interviewer with both your qualifications and your preparation. The result? The interview of a lifetime–one that leads to the job you’ve always wanted.
Landing the Job You Want: How to Have the Best Job Interview of Your Life
5 Responses to “Landing the Job You Want: How to Have the Best Job Interview of Your Life”
Is this the BEST that an ‘Accomplished’ journalist can do?
An accomplished journalist/author like Ms. Pickett should be able to do better than this bore of a ‘Self-Help’ book for the unemployed and unemployable. ‘Landing the Job You Want’ is nothing more than 200+ pages of ‘Blah, Blah, Blah’ (read: BORING) tips for those who are too lazy to get off their collective tushes and make something of themselves.
One would expect that a writer with Ms. Pickett’s credentials should have the talent to at least speak intelligently to her audience, but then again, the author’s M.O. is one of putting herself up on a pedastal, above all others, while boring her readers with lines and lines and pages upon pages of useless information that most could care less to read.
Other reviewers have concurred. Perhaps Ms. Pickett should spend more time concentrating on making her readers happy and less time feeding her own ego. A wise man once said ‘Before you speak, my child, think about this: Does what you have to say really interest anyone other than yourself? If so, then speak your mind. If not, remain silent and more people will respect you.’
Ms. Picket should take heed.
Rating: 1 / 5
I would highly recommend this book for job interviewing preparation. Also recommended for job interview preparation are the job interview guides published by Vault.com, including the Vault Guide to the Case Interview and the Vault Guide to Finance Interviews. Good luck!
Rating: 4 / 5
If you are looking for a job, or promotion and the corporation will be using the Targeted Selection method this is the book you must read! Forget those silly answers like “I am a people person” This book will help you explain why you should land the job!
Rating: 5 / 5
I have pulled this book off my shelf many times over the last 9 years to aid friends and family during their stalled job searches. It offers basic helpful advise on how to stand out from other candidates during the interview process. A candidate cannot possibly know whether a company uses Targeted Selection but that is beside the point. Giving behavioral answers to non- behavioral questions asked by interviewers really helps a candidate stand out! Sure it’s a tad simplistic , but that is what makes this workbook’s advise so easy to understand and follow. The pre-interview prep is priceless.
Not only did this book help me change shift my career to a new industry. it has successfully aided several of my friends and at least one family member.
Rating: 4 / 5
This book was Fantastic! It gave me great examples, and allowed me to practice with real work oriented questions. This allowed me to prepare the upcoming promotional opportunity within my company. I feel that I am now relaxed and fully prepared to do the best that I can. I have and would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in seriously getting promoted. It will work, you just have to do the work and read the book. It’s that Easy.
Rating: 5 / 5