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Make a great impression and win your dream job!Your resume got your foot in the door, but now comes the hard part–interviewing for the job. Don’t worry! With The Interview Kit, Third Edition, you can walk into any employment interview with the confidence, preparation, and attitude to succeed.
Bestselling career guru Richard Beatty has shown thousands of job seekers how to navigate the employment maze successfully. In this revised and updated edition, you’ll learn to use proven sales techniques to make sure the interviewer sees the very best you have to offer. With answers to over 500 tough questions and strategies on what to say and how to say it, you may never be tongue-tied again. This practical, reassuring guide leads you step by step through the interview process, showing you how to:
- Develop an interview strategy that sets you apart from the herd of job seekers
- Research a potential employer’s products, marketing strategy, management style, and financial picture
- Control the interview to your advantage
- Maximize your strengths and minimize your weaknesses
- Handle the toughest questions
- Conduct mid-interview damage control–including helpful tips and tricks to avoid traps and pitfalls
- Take the initiative and ask penetrating questions that impress employers
- Sell yourself in the interview
With new chapters on following up the interview and negotiating benefits and salary, The Interview Kit, Third Edition is your personal coach for succeeding in any interview and leaving the kind of lasting impression that wins jobs!
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The new revised edition of The Interview Kit shows job seekers how to succeed in any interview. With answers to over 500 tough questions and strategies on what to say and how to say it, interviewees need never be tongue-tied again. The Interview Kit offers five proven strategies for making the best impression and expert advice on negotiating salary and benefits after the successful interview. This new and updated edition is better than ever, with new advice on what to do when the interview doesn't go well. Based on his three decades of career experience and research, Beatty provides the proven advice, step-by-step guidance, and all the essential tools job hunters need to succeed.
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Demystify investing and maximize your wealth-with guidance from the world's most trusted financial news networkFrom CNBC, the global leader of financial news, comes the most user-friendly, approachable guide to simplifying the often confusing world of finance and investing. CNBC Creating Wealth offers a complete and comprehensive introduction to world markets and shows readers how to use the information and tools currently available for maximum wealth-building. Using the hallmark CNBC approach-demystifying complex and confusing market terminology through lucid language and instructions-this accessible primer helps readers make smarter investment choices, and stay successful and secure even in volatile markets. CNBC Creating Wealth covers:
- The inside story of the stock market and creating a long-term investment portfolio
- Strategies for the most profitable investment areas, including stocks, bonds, and mutual funds
- Online tools, including research, brokers, and access to data about financial markets around the world
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Praise for CNBC CREATING WEALTH
The rapidly growing influence of the individual investor and the stunning evolution of technology are two of the most remarkable developments in the history of the financial world. In CNBC Creating Wealth, we help you take advantage of these fundamental changes to Wall Street and take charge of your own investing.
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author of The Savage Truth on Money
"CNBC Creating Wealth is an excellent resource for investors of all ageswith or without market experience."
Bambi Holzer
Senior Vice PresidentInvestments and Retirement Plan Consultant with PaineWebber
From the Foreword
"Successful investors understand what makes stock prices go up and down. Thats where information comes in. . . . This book is designed to figure out what is important so you can separate useful information from useless noise."
Bill Griffeth
CNBC Anchor and host of Power Lunch
About the Author
CNBC is the recognized global leader in business news, providing real-time financial market coverage and business information to more than 175 million homes and offices worldwide.
BRIAN OCONNELL is an experienced business journalist. He has written on investment and other topics for a variety of publications, including the Boston Herald, Entrepreneur magazine, and Dow Jones Investment Advisor. OConnell has also written for TheStreet.com and CBS MarketWatch. He is the author of Gen E: Generation Entrepreneur Is Rewriting the Rules of BusinessAnd You Can, Too! and The 401(k) Millionaire. OConnell lives in Doylestown, Pennsylvania.
Table of Contents
1. Before the Interview.
2. The Interview Day.
3. Five Winning Interview Strategies.
4. Damage Control in the Interview.
5. Interview Questions—Strengths.
6. Interview Questions—Weaknesses.
7. Interview Questions—Education.
8. Interview Questions—Job Performance.
9. Interview Questions—Work Performance.
10. Interview Questions—Motivation and Drive.
11. Interview Questions—Personal Traits and Characteristics.
12. Interview Questions—Interpersonal Skills.
13. Interview Questions—Preferred Work Environment.
14. Interview Questions—Preferred Boss's Style.
15. Interview Questions—Planning and Organizing Skills.
16. Interview Questions—Business Philosophy.
17. Interview Questions—Operating Style.
18. Interview Questions—Communications Skills.
19. Interview Questions—Management Style.
20. Interview Questions—Creativity.
21. Interview Questions—Entrepreneurship (Risk Taking).
22. Interview Questions— Persistence.
23. Closing the Interview.
24. Managing the Silence—What to Do When You Hear Nothing after the Job Innterview.
25. Turning No into Yes—Strategies for Reversing a Negative Employment Decision.
26. Negotiating the Job Offer—Getting What You Want.
Index.