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"60 Seconds & You're Hired! has already helped thousands of job seekers get their dream jobs by excelling in crucial interviews. America's top job search expert Robin Ryan draws on her 20 years as a career counselor, 30 years of direct hiring, and extensive contact with hundreds of recruiters, decisions makers, and HR professionals to teach you proven strategies to help you take charge of the interview process and get the job you want. Brief, compact,...
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"[T]his concise interview guide gives readers proven tips and clear instructions to prepare for breakthrough interviews. Job seekers will learn to identify and communicate their unique strengths, their 'key selling points'; understand why employers ask many of the most common interview questions - and how to answer with confidence; succeed with video interviews, behavioral interviews and panels; build an arsenal of success stories; [and] ace every...
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"From respected Journalist, professor, and founder of Writer's Symposium by the Sea, a book that demystifies the art and science of interviewing, in the vein of On Writing Well or How to Read Literature Like a Professor for the J-School crowd"--
Interviewing is the single most important way journalists (and others) get information. Yet to many, the perfect interview feels more like luck than skill- a rare confluence of rapport, topic, and timing....
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Microsoft's interview process is a grueling sequence of brain-busting questions that separate the most creative thinkers from the merely brilliant. So effective is their technique that other leading corporations--from the high-tech industry to consulting and financial services--are modeling their own hiring practices on Bill Gates' unique approach. How would you move Mount Fuji? reveals for the first time more than 35 of Microsoft's puzzles and riddles....
7) High-impact interview questions: 701 behavior-based questions to find the right person for every job
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High-Impact Interview Questions shows you how to use competency-based behavioral interviewing methods that will uncover truly relevant and useful information. By having applicants describe specific situations from their own experience during previous jobs (rather than asking them hypothetical questions about "what would you do . . ."), you'll be able to identify specific strengths and weaknesses that will tell you if you've found the right person...
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Kanopy Streaming
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Increase your interviewing skills by using questions that are effective and time-efficient! Wright and Leahey demonstrate how to use questions that engage all family members and focus the meeting, assess the impact of the illness/problem on the family, elicit family coping strategies/strengths, intervene and invite change, and request family feedback. Intended for practicing nurses, educators, undergraduate and graduate nursing students, these programs...
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Kanopy Streaming
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How to avoid and correct errors in family interviewing is essential for relational practice and for healing to occur. Interviewing skills are demonstrated in new actual clinical vignettes. Specifically shown is how to create a context for change and work collaboratively with all family members in the room without taking sides. Both physical and mental health issues are explored. Intended for practicing nurses, educators, undergraduate and graduate...
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Kanopy Streaming
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Focus on intervention and change! Wright and Leahey demonstrate interventions in three new clinical interviews: encouraging the telling of illness narratives, validating affect, drawing forth family strengths/support, encouraging respite, offering commendations, and offering information/opinions. These interventions focus on strengthening, promoting and/or sustaining effective family functioning in cognitive, emotional, and behavioral domains. Intended...
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At some point, most people have been caught off guard by tough interview questions. This book helps readers take charge of the situation! In Acing the Interview, the employment expert Dr. Phil called "the best of the best" gives job seekers candid advice for answering even the most unexpected questions, including:
* You really don't have as much experience as we would like -- why should we hire you?
* How many hours in your previous jobs did you have...
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Interview Power is a complete and comprehensive interviewing guide. It is filled with hundreds of practiceal ideas, strategies, and tips, enabling readers to obtain more job offers and negotiate higher salaries. Interview Power opens up the secret of effective interviewing--the art of selling one's strengths by describing past accomplishments. Interview Power is one of the few books (and probably the best) that shows readers how to back up what they...
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Increasingly, employers today are using a tough new kind of interview to evaluate candidates and determine how well they think on their feet. To be successful in these new competency-based interviews, job seekers must be prepared with situation-specific examples that highlight the accomplishments, knowledge, and abilities they have that employers need. Featuring a plethora of sample questions-and winning answers-this book is organized by the five...
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In today's hard economic times, often being qualified for a job simply isn't good enough. To be seriously considered for a position, you need to stand out in the mind of your future employer from the get-go. The impression you make when you interview for a new job can mean the difference between a steady paycheck and more wanted ads littering your kitchen table. This book will give you the tools you need to make a great first impression, get
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It's happened to the best of us. You have a job opening to fill. You interview a range of qualified candidates and hire the best of the bunch-or so you think. You soon realize that the person who seemed like a perfect fit during the interview doesn't have what it takes to do the job.In Who, Geoff Smart and Randy Street, of the management consulting firm ghSmart, combine their experiences training thousands of managers and executives with the most...
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Today more than ever, job candidates make initial contact with prospective employers via the telephone. Phone interviews are often the most unexpected facet of job interviewing, yet they are fast becoming the standard for employers when narrowing the pool of applicants and determining who will be invited for in-person interviews. The Essential Phone Interview Handbook covers:
• How to prepare, what to say, and when to say it
• How to establish...
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Whether you get the job or not is determined in the interview...
The job interview is the single most crucial step in the whole application process. In Don't Blow the Interview, you'll learn:
-How to secure the interview, from résumé preparation to query letters and more
-Ways to dress, walk, and talk for interview success
-Common interview questions-and how to answer them!
-How to deal with illegal questions about age, sexual orientation, family...
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Why do you want this job? Why should I hire you? Why do you want to leave your current job? Do you have convincing answers ready for these important questions? Landing a good job is a competitive process and often the final decision is based on your performance at the interview. By following the advice of prominent career and human resources expert Peter Veruki, Director of Career Planning at Rice University’s graduate school of business, you’ll...
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For anyone who hires employees this is a must have book. It is also essential for anyone searching for a new job. This new book contains a wide variety of carefully worded questions that will help make the employee search easier. These questions can help you determine a candidates personality type, the type of work he or she is best suited for, and if the person will mesh with your existing employees and workplace. Interviewing potential employees...
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Learn the stages of a reference interview and the behaviors necessary to conduct a successful reference interview. Produced with a content committee of reference librarians and trainers. The program also discusses the unique challenges of online reference interviews. "Although an online reference interview is a lot like that done in-person, the librarian needs to be also be able to emulate the unseen visual cues while conveying a sense of personality,"...
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