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interview process. You’ll learn to present your best self to employers.
We’ll show you how to male a smooth transition from your resume to the
job offer. You’ll answer and ask questions that both impress employers
and generate important information to assist you in determining if indeed
this job is the right “fit” for you.
Let’s be perfectly clear what this book is not about. It is not a book on
how you can tale charge of the interview situation. That would be
presumptuous and you would probably become either overbearing or
obnoxious, or both. It is not a book on how to pull the wool over the eyes
of the employer by arriving “dressed for success” and then dishing out
“canned answers” to interview questions. That would be dishonest and
stupid. And this is not a book about how to cleverly manipulate the
interviewer to your advantage. That would be unethical, it assumes the
interviewer is stupid, and the technique probably would not work.
This is a book about some of the most important communication of
your life. Doing well in a 30- to 60-minute interview can have several
positive outcomes for you and your career. In addition to a nice compen-
sation package, it should result in a job you will really do well and enjoy
doing - the ultimate in career satisfaction.

Create Your Own Interview Power

You can acquire the power to turn interview apprehension into interview
anticipation and success. In the following chapters we will share with you
the secrets to interview success. We will focus on you in relationship to
the employer -what you both need to do in order to arrive at a mutually
satisfactory arrangement that will hopefully lead to a satisfying long-term
professional and personal relationship.
Our approach to this subject is very simple. We begin with you, the
interviewee, and move you directly through the interview process, from
beginning to end. For the most part, the chapters flow in the same
manner as the job interview - a sequence of different interview questions
you need to both answer and ask.
We begin in Chapter 2, Interview Qpes and Techniques, by analyzing
the interview situation - types of interviews you can expect to encounter
as well as the structure of job interviews. We believe much of your appre-
hension is related to these structural questions. We include a section on
behavioral questioning techniques because many job applicants report