The Interview Kit, Second Edition

OVER 600,000 BEATTY CAREER GUIDES SOLD
* 5 sure-fire strategies for winning interviews
* Great answers to over 500 tough interview questions
* How to use the interview to enchance your negotiating position

Never be tongue-tied or caught off guard! America's #1 job expert shows you how to sail like a pro through any employment interview

Your resume has done its job and you got the call to interview for that fantastic position you hoped for. Now comes the hard part-the interview. Don't worry! With the help of this book, you can walk into any employment interview confident, prepared, and ready to win that job.

Bestselling job-search guru Richard Beatty has shown thousands of job seekers how to navigate the employment maze successfully. In The Interview Kit, he helps you prepare for the interview, the stage of the process many candidates find the most daunting. In this practical, reassuring guide, you'll learn how to use proven sales techniques to make sure that the interviewer sees the very best you have to offer. You'll go step-by-step through the interview process, discovering 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

Featuring a new chapter on Negotiating Strategy, The Interview Kit is your personal coach for handling anything an interview can throw at you and leaving the kind of lasting positive impression that wins jobs!

RICHARD H. BEATTY, North America's leading job-search author, has conducted well over 1,000 job interviews during his thirty years as a corporate employment and consulting professional. He is President of Brandywine Consulting Group, a human resources consulting firm. Previously, he spent seventeen years as a human resources executive with Scott Paper. His bestselling books include The Resume Kit, The Five-Minute Interview, 175 High-Impact Cover Letters, The Perfect Cover Letter, and 175 High-Impact Resumes, all available from Wiley.