A guide to stunning your interviewer with perfect answers to stumping questions In today's competitive job market, a stellar interview lends you an edge over the competition, which can make or break your chances at a new career. Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies, 2nd Edition teaches you how to perform professionally and productively under stressful interview conditions. With this handy guide, you'll learn to breeze through tricky questions and accentuate your most impressive qualities. This updated second edition features a ten-step guide to having a great interview, ten tips for projecting confidence, ten techniques for trouble-shooting your job search, 200 tough sample interview questions with detailed advice and model answers, proven strategies to combat nerves, and guidelines for perfecting your social media presence and handling questions that may arise from an online search. There is no need to enter an interview feeling unprepared with this guide by your side. Rob Yeung's holistic approach helps you make a positive first impression Shows you how to prepare to answer questions regarding your online presences (and how to avoid embarrassing search results) Provides essential preparation so that you can familiarize yourself with tricky questions before embarking on the stressful interviewing process Whether you're an entry-level worker or a mid-level professional, Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies prepares you to blow the competition away with your poised and professional responses.

A guide to stunning your interviewer with perfect answers to stumping questionsIn today's competitive job market, a stellar interview lends you an edge over the competition, which can make or break your chances at a new career. Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies, 2nd Edition teaches you how to perform professionally and productively under stressful interview conditions.With this handy guide, you'll learn to breeze through tricky questions and accentuate your most impressive qualities. This updated second edition features a ten-step guide to having a great interview, ten tips for projecting confidence, ten techniques for trouble-shooting your job search, 200 tough sample interview questions with detailed advice and model answers, proven strategies to combat nerves, and guidelines for perfecting your social media presence and handling questions that may arise from an online search. There is no need to enter an interview feeling unprepared with this guide by your side.* Rob Yeung's holistic approach helps you make a positive first impression* Shows you how to prepare to answer questions regarding your online presences (and how to avoid embarrassing search results)* Provides essential preparation so that you can familiarize yourself with tricky questions before embarking on the stressful interviewing processWhether you're an entry-level worker or a mid-level professional, Answering Tough Interview Questions For Dummies prepares you to blow the competition away with your poised and professional responses.

Introduction 1Part I: Getting Started with Answering Tough Interview Questions 5Chapter 1: Understanding the Interviewing Game 7Chapter 2: Doing Your Job Interview Homework 15Chapter 3: Polishing Your Interview Performance 25Part II: Making Sure You Shine in an Interview 33Chapter 4: Talking About Yourself 35Chapter 5: Talking about Problems, Perceptions and People 53Chapter 6: Getting to Grips with Questions about Your Work 73Chapter 7: Talking About Why You Want a New Job 89Chapter 8: Thriving Under the Pressure Interview 113Chapter 9: Succeeding at Competency-Based Interviewing 135Part III: Dealing with Tricky Questions and Other Situations 157Chapter 10: Responding to Questions for Graduates and School Leavers 159Chapter 11: Handling Questions Aimed at Experienced Candidates 175Chapter 12: Handling Hypothetical and Analytical Questions 195Chapter 13: Coping with Illegal and Personal Questions 209Chapter 14: Taking Control in Unusual Situations 229Part IV: Securing the Job of Your Dreams 239Chapter 15: Asking Great Questions 241Chapter 16: Dotting 'I's and Crossing 'T's 249Part V: The Part of Tens 259Chapter 17: Ten Cardinal Sins of Interviewing 261Chapter 18: Ten Steps to Delivering a Great Interview 267Chapter 19: Ten Top Tips for Projecting a Confident You 275Chapter 20: Ten Ways to Troubleshoot Your Job Search 281Index 287