When Can You Start?: Ace the Job Interview and Get Hired

This new edition of the best-selling job interview guide is available now with up-to-the minute help for your job search strategy. Mastering the job interview is key to a successful job hunting strategy. The job interview is the moment that can change your life. You deserve to get hired. But, whether it’s a high tech job, an executive job, or the new grad’s first job, few people prepare well for this vital step while job hunting.

As president of Shimmering Resumes, a career counseling firm and former head of corporate communications for McKinsey & Company, Paul Freiberger has over 20 years of professional job search expertise. This latest edition excels at providing new insights as well as the classic winning When Can You Start job interview formula.

A Los Angeles Times award-winning author, Freiberger offers the proven tools and new tips for the interview process.

In this revised and updated edition, you will learn about:

* The Toughest Job Interview Questions
* Not Telling the Interviewer About Your Weaknesses
* Answering Trick and Oddball Questions
* The Latest in Video Interviews
* Mastering Phone, Panel, and one-on-one interviews
* Devising the Best Questions
* Empowering your job search with informational interviews
* Avoiding Job Interview Mistakes

* Salary Negotiation Tips and Strategies

With the right preparation, you will have a major advantage over the competition in even the toughest job markets. Convert "We'll be in touch" into "When can you start?” This book will show you how.

Editorial Reviews

“This book is powerful and expertly researched. Packed with interview advice you need to get your next job.”

— Larry Kramer, President and Publisher, USA Today

The most exhaustive, best researched book about job interviewing, filled with insights and research.

— Jean-Louis Gassée, General Partner, Allegis Capital

Freiberger delivers a fun and informative read. You will get a job a lot sooner if you read this book. Perfect for new grads at the beginning of their careers and powerful ammunition for the rest of us.

— Guy Kawasaki, author of APE: Author, Publisher, Entrepreneur, and former chief evangelist of Apple

Highly useful to anyone facing an important job interview, especially if they haven’t been practicing for a while. Practical and well-researched, with extensive and realistic examples. This will stand the test of time.

— Marc Singer, Director, McKinsey & Company

There are gems of wisdom packed into the sections on how to answer behavioral interview questions, how to succeed in a panel interview, and how to anticipate sensitive and challenging questions. The principles and practices discussed in this book will help the job seeker turn the interview from an interrogation into a conversation.

— Marcia G. Rhodes, WorldatWork Director

Paul Freiberger, author of When Can You Start? Ace the Job Interview and Get Hired is President of Shimmering Resumes, a global resume-writing, job interview preparation, and career counseling service. He has helped thousands of clients with job interview preparation, resumes and job search.

Paul is the author of several books and the winner of The Los Angeles Times Book Award. Paul Freiberger is co-author of the best-selling Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer (McGraw-Hill, 1984, rev. 2000), translated into many languages and later made into the Hollywood movie Pirates of Silicon Valley. He has produced reports for National Public Radio programs, including All Things Considered and Morning Edition. He is a former columnist for the San Jose Mercury News and a reporter for the San Francisco Examiner, where he covered Silicon Valley business for seven years.

Freiberger has written best-selling books that have changed people's lives. He has directed communications for McKinsey & Company, the most respected global management consulting firm. His work has been widely praised for its pragmatic effectiveness and compassion in many publications and reviews.