"If you treat the interviewing process like the ""game"" that it is -- and become good at it -- you'll win every time. Your success depends on mastering the rules, understanding the players, and knowing how to score enough to win. Winning the Interview Game takes you step by step from preparing for your initial interview to prepping for your first day on the job. You'll learn everything you need to know to: * Establish and maintain rapport with interviewers. * Prove that you ideally suit the position's requirements. * Take advantage of the pressure on recruiters and human resources departments to fill jobs. * Recognize and disarm negative body language exhibited by interviewers. * Deal with difficult questions and tense situations to salvage a less-than-perfect interview before it ends. Regardless of your age, level of seniority, or area of expertise, this practical guide gives you the strong competitive edge you need to defeat the competition and land the job you want."

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Winning the Interview game takes you step by step from preparing you for initial to prepping for your first day on the job.

Are you considering a job switch or a career change? Perhaps you are actively interviewing, but haven't advanced beyond the phone screen or been offered the job. Or maybe just one or two questions always seem to find you at a loss for the right response. Everyone can benefit from developing and keeping interviewing skills in top shape. In this straightforward guide, executive search expert and author of The 20-Minute Networking Meeting, Marcia Ballinger, spells out exactly what it takes to win your executive interview. In this book, Marcia reveals: - What really goes on during an executive interview-- from the other side of the desk- How to prepare for different kinds of interviews, and position yourself for success- The very best ways to answer the most common interview questions This practical book gives you the strategy and tools for every interview, and is a must-have for any executive job candidate.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Science of Storytelling comes a bold and ambitious investigation of status that will redefine human culture for our times There's something humans desire even more than gold. It's a fundamental drive that's common to all humanity, cutting across race, gender, age and culture. Our need for it is such that exactly how much of it we possess dramatically effects not only our happiness and well-being but also our physical health. It'sstatus, argues Will Storr. You can't understand human behaviour without understanding The Status Game. This game, which we are all playing, is not only the secret of our success, but also of our most evil behaviour. Everything is subordinate to status, and humans aren't unique in our complicity with it. By reflecting on the various ways humans negotiate this game - through status hierarchies, values, myths and sacred markers, Storr gives readers a master class in this most malevolent of social mysteries.

This book will teach you to gain more power in the job interview, find out who your competitors are and how you stack up. Use the follow-up checklist to turn interviews into offers, make reference checking work in your favor, communicate effectively during salary negotiation, start out on the right foot in your new job.

Strategies for turning your next interview into an offer--as taught at today's leading business schools Every job interview is a one-shot opportunity to dramatically improve your career and lifestyle. World-class MBA programs recognize this fact and now provide their students with detailed courses and coaching on how to dress for an interview, what to say, what not to say, and more. How to Interview Like a Top MBA presents today's best-of-the-best strategies and skills into an all-in-one, MBA-level interviewing how-to. Featuring insights from Fortune 100 executives, headhunters, career counselors, and MBA graduates, this no-nonsense guidebook arms you with: Tips for highlighting your relevant skills and experience with concise, compelling, and well-structured answers Information you should know about an interviewing company, its industry, the position, and even the interviewers themselves Ways to directly address résumé weak spots or periods of extended unemployment--without apologizing! Techniques for identifying and highlighting transferable skills when you're looking to enter a new profession Worksheets, charts, and other hands-on tools for mapping out a powerful interview strategy and plan of action 100 sample questions you can expect to hear--with sample answers that can impress your interviewer In today's ultracompetitive and uncompromising job market, the next position you get will set the tone for the rest of your career. Let How to Interview Like a Top MBAshow you how to develop the skills and confidence you need to enter each interview as a top candidate--and turn that interview into an exciting new job.