We're so excited to announce the publication of the second edition of Pageant Interviewing Success: The Collected Series! This edition has been updated and perfected to best serve its purpose and help you nail that interview!
Every pageant contestant looks lovely in her gown, so it is the interview – not the outer beauty – that determines who is crowned Queen. Pageant Interviewing Success: The Collected Series will help you take home the crown, whether you are new to pageants or an experienced contestant who wants to take her performance to the next level. If you haven’t won the title you want to, it’s not a problem with your shoes or dress – it’s your interview!
•Have you ever left an interview feeling you could have done better?
•Do you know how to be prepared without sounding rehearsed? Do you get nervous or tongue-tied?
•Can you think on your feet to answer well a full range of question types?
•If you slip up, can you recover with grace and ease?
•Are you sure you are in the right pageant for you?
•Is your pageant paper work setting you up for winning an interview?
•Do you know what judges are really looking for in a pageant titleholder?
•Have you assessed how your personal characteristics might be hindering you?
•Are you a Bungler, a Smuggler, or a Sleuth in your pageant interview?
•Do you know how to avoid the most common mistakes?
This collected series is a compilation of smaller books available separately on Kindle. Now bound into paperback for your convenience—with an epilogue and additional photos not available in the smaller e-books—this well-organized collection addresses the issues above and many more. You can read this information-packed book from start to finish or, with the detailed table-of-contents and index, you can jump quickly to what you need into a step-by-step process to show you all the components that make up a successful interview. Pageant Interviewing Success: The Collected Series is easy to read, actually delivers on the claim of “most complete” resource, and is written by someone who has actually done what many pageant book writers have not – competed and taken home the crown.
The breakthrough series encompassed in this collection includes 15 thought-provoking books that will show you how to build your interview know-how from “square one” into a life-long skill that could change your life (and win you the crown!). In Pageant Interviewing Success: The Collections Series, you’ll find:
•Book 1,
Build a Strong Foundation•Book 2,
How to Prepare•Book 3,
Personal Characteristics•Book 4,
Question Types•Book 5,
Optimize Your Outfit•Book 6,
Conquering Fears at the Pageant•Book 7,
Making a Strong First Impression•Book 8,
Being in the Win Zone•Book 9,
Answering Personal Questions•Book 10,
Handling Silly and Tough Questions•Book 11,
Four Strategies to Build Answer Content•Book 12,
When You Don't Know the Answer•Book 13,
Ending with Grace and Ease•Book 14,
Optimize On-Stage Questions•Book 15,
Post-Performance ReviewIn addition, there are over 60 exercises, and over 35 answer examples are analyzed to help you learn so you always sound smart and confident at your pageant and beyond. After all, a pageant is just the beginning!
This is the most comprehensive home-study pageant interview success program available, allowing you to avoid problems you haven’t even thought of yet. Dr. Stephanie Raye has already walked in your high heels—now is the time for your success story. Get Pageant Interviewing Success: The Collected Series and take an important step to making your beauty pageant dreams come true!
I'm Dr. Stephanie Raye, though I was just plain "Stephanie Raye" when I competed in pageants over 20 years ago. Back then, I didn't really know what I'd signed up for, as entering pageants just wasn't something we did in my family. But I figured I could learn, so I thought through what I'd need to do to succeed-what it really meant to enter, compete, and win in a pageant. When the competition time came I won! I became Miss Arizona Petite 1988.
But a pageant is just the beginning. Something always comes next, and the skills you build in the pageant can help you with it.
What came next for me was choosing to continue my education. That included a Bachelor of Science degree in Communication (emphasizing interpersonal and intercultural communication in organizational settings) and a Masters and a Doctorate in Psychology (emphasizing social influence, organizations, family relationships and divorce, and health and wellness.) As if understanding those areas weren't enough, I also spent two years being trained and certified as a personal and professional life coach.
My early work background includes the "commercial" and "visual" side of the business world. I put myself through the early years of my college education doing work that included (but was not limited to): being a print, mannequin, and runway model, appearing in commercials, being a mobile disc jockey, and representing fashion photographers to ad agencies and fashion retailers to make bookings for editorial and commercial fashion shoots.
And since 1993, among other interesting things, I've taught and conducted research at one of the largest and most well-regarded traditional state universities in the U.S.A. There I've focused more on the behind-the-scenes knowledge and concerns of organizations including families and businesses. That is, I've studied and added to the body of knowledge that helps create understanding and skill building that leads to more successful employees, leaders, and citizens. Underpinning all that, I've also spent a lot of time studying and teaching about what makes overall successful and happy people, from modern scientific perspectives as well as from engaging classic texts from ancient to modern times.
