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Can a book really prepare you for an interview?
I never believed it could and to be very frank, I had never read too many such books. But some time back one of my readers suggested that I should refer books that could help them in appearing for their interviews. This is when I decided that I will review a few such good books from time to time so that it benefits you.
What is “Winning Job Interviews”?
This book written by Dr.Powers, is a complete job hunt book, which starts from job hunting, getting called in for the interview and then cracking the interview. Dr.Powers has sandwiched humor and thought into his book excellently and in such a way that you will enjoy the read and will never feel that your are reading a book on job hunting and job interviews.
Dr.Powers opens the book with a chapter on “Job Hunting” and titled it appropriately as “Why Job Hunting sucks”? The chapter is presented in a humorous way and after you read it, you will realize the humor behind job hunting. He goes onto discuss about being an effective job hunter and the ways to being and effective job hunter. A few techniques that he discusses included thing like networking, posting and researching the success statistics of each recruiter. Initially I felt that the things being discussed were a bit too theoretical, but as I read through to the next chapters, I realized the relevance of each of the things that Dr. Powers had described in the book.
The next section focuses on preparing for the job interview. In this section his focus is mainly on researching and practicing. His lays emphasis on researching about the company that you are applying for. You can prepare mock questions and practice them with your friends and relatives thus improving on the preparedness for an interview and reducing the anxiety associated with it.
As a closing note in the book, Dr.Powers discusses about the importance of maintaining a record of your contacts so that your can use them in the future if you have to go job hunting again. It seemed irrelevant initially, but later as recession crept and people started loosing jobs, especially the ones who felt that they were very secure in their current jobs, I started to realize the importance of this.
The book beautifully describes tips to get over the normally asked question – “tell me something about yourself”. The author describes about how to include your skills in the answer that you give rather than just harping on your tasks. He teaches how to take control of the interview instead of the interviewer being in control.
This book is an amazing read and at the cost that it is available at Amazon, it is a steal of a deal for anyone who is looking to prepare for an interview, rather crack an interview. The book is a beautifully laid out masterpiece that can help you achieve your personal career goals in life.
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Wow that is a great book. I will definitely check that one.
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