The Complete Q&A Job Interview Book [antikvár]

. • . .rreen test, an act. Getting hired depends A job interview is a sc ^^ ^^^^^ ^^^^ pertect yuu ^^ retakes. No bit parts. '"iiCtl decade, I was behind a personnel director's desk, interviewing appHcants of every age, stage, and wage, ever; day (and night-in my sleep). I've probably read every book on how to interview. I've taken courses on it. I've even trained supervisors on how to do it. I rapped nonstop about interviewing techniques: directive or nondirective, specific or general, closed-ended or open-ended, structured or unstructured, restricted or unrestricted, window, choice, hypothetical, theoretical, interpretive, leading, loaded, stress, interrogation, machine-gun, multiple, double, curiosity, and so on. Interviewing is a welcome break for supervisors and keeps a lot of personnellers off the unemployment line. But I studying interviewing techniques is a total waste of time for i a serious job seeker. At best, studying them will get you tired !long before you're hired. At worst, it will intimidate you. Interviewing hasn't changed since Laurel hired Hardy. It's just I as comical as it has always been. I Now you can memorize the script in advance. There are i only so many questions that can be asked and only so many ways to ask them. Oh, there might be minor variations-like ^e accent of the interviewer, his or her tone of voice, or a " Otrerw'" jobgetters appreciate them. I w^^ ' -- before the offers ::: ^ ^^eyre control- ^ ' f^^es change-not the words. And