Boost Your Interview IQ 2/E

By Carole Martin

Book Overview

The ultimate guide to acing any interview --revised and updated to give you the edge in today's competitive job market

Job interviews aren't discussions; they're oral exams--and the candidate with all the right answers gets the job. Boost Your Interview IQ, Second Edition, helps you ace that big test with skill-building exercises, an in-depth "Interview IQ" test, and other resources to let you craft winning answers to the most important questions interviewers ask.

In these pages, you'll discover ways to present your experiences in a compelling narrative that showcases your skills, knowledge, and personality--and you'll learn the right way to answer tricky "behavioral" questions like a pro. Plus you'll get interview strategies custom tailored to the needs of management/executive-level candidates, new graduates, career changers, and people reentering the market.

In today's tough job market, the best-prepared candidate wins--and in this economy you're going to need every advantage to set you apart from the pack. Boost Your Interview IQ is the book that delivers the right tools to do the job of GETTING the job.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071797467
• ISBN13: 9780071797467
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Read this before your behavioral interview

This book was superb. It specifically addresses traditional interviews and then behavioral interviews. It clearly gives you 50 questions to expect and the great, so-so and poor responses. The ROI on this book for the interviewee has to be very high.

With a little imagination, you can ace the interview

I worked at a Fortune 500 computer company that used behavioral interviewing (where the interviewer says "Tell me about a time . . ."). If you read this book and Carole's examples, you can see how to present your experience in a way that impresses. My wife is a book editor and although the book doesn't cover this particular career, we went over her experiences and created a way to talk about them. Unless you were a corporate drone who never though outside the box (or even much inside it) you can point out the ways where you added a little extra to the way you did the job. If you can't think of such remarks you're just appear to be a faceless job applicant who has no worthwhile features, no matter what your real experiences. The way to use this book is to read all the examples, and especially take note of the best and second-best way of giving an answer. Eventually you'll learn what to say for any interview. I'd rather not have to say something like "Oh yes, I always worked hard at my last job" (which is not 100 percent true and sounds phoney). I'd rather use the behavioral technique and say that a co-worker went in on a Saturday to make up a couple of hours, found that a huge amount of work had been dumped on us, and split the work by e-mailing half of it to me at home, which took up most of my time on that weekend (which actually was true). I know which one would impress an employer.

Best Interview Book

Don't make the size of the book fools you, it's one of the best written books about Interviews and there questions. It doesn't matter where you are or what you do, it's always those annoying questions you face, you will really be surprised when attending interviews how is this process is easy after reading that book. With multiple answers it will boost your interview IQ and make you reach the perfect answer. Well done and thanks a million for the writer.

A must read before going to your interview!

As a person who has spent many years as a professional in corporate America and having been interviewed and been part of the interview process many times, I can think of no better way to prepare than to read Carole Martin's interview book. Interviewing is basically a structured question and answer session. The person who responds best to the many questions posed by the interviewer will most likely get the job.There are few if any questions in the interview process that are not discussed in Carole's book. The questions are presented in a precise, easy to understand manner, followed by answers ranging from the strong or the best answer to the weakest or worst answer.If I had just one book on my shelf to help me prepare for an interview, I would easily choose this book.

Best job interview tool I've ever used.

I found "Boost Your Interview IQ" to be completely different from other advice books on landing a job in that it tells you specifically how to answer all the possible questions you'll be asked. It covers 50 of the most commonly asked interview questions, including, "Why were you fired?", "Why have you been out of work for so long?", and just about every other potential question you can think of. The book gives three potential answers for each question, ranks each on a strong, mediocre, or weak scale, and explains why the answers rank the way they do. I'm an author (Never Be Late Again, 7 Cures for the Punctually Challenged), and when I'm finished promoting my book, I'll be rejoining the workforce. This book will be my constant companion. Great book!