Ultimate interview : master the art of interview success with 100s of typical, unusual and industry-specific questions and answers / Lynn Williams.

Includes indexes.

1. Know your enemy -- Understanding interviewers -- What do they want? -- What sort of things are they looking for? -- What will happen at the interview? -- What sort of questions will they ask? -- How do they know what they're looking for? -- 2. Prepare yourself -- What you need to know before the interview -- What should you prepare? -- Exhibit 1 Evidence that you meet their needs -- Exhibit 2 Reassuring answers and explanations -- Exhibit 3 Industry knowledge -- Exhibit 4 The reasons you want this job -- 3. Standing out -- How to be an outstanding candidate -- Why are these qualities so important? -- 4. Answering questions -- What the interviewer will ask and what you need to tell them -- Make a good impression -- Three cardinal rules -- 5. Starting the interview -- What to expect from the interview and how to begin confidently -- 6. Questions they ask everybody -- Standard questions you should prepare for -- 7. Behavioural questions -- Some questions dig deeper than others -- What are the important points? -- 8. Questions for practical jobs -- Core question, 'Are you reliable?' -- Professional knowledge -- 9. Questions for creative jobs -- Core question, 'Will you deliver' -- Professional knowledge -- 10. Questions for clerical and administrative jobs -- Core question, 'Are you efficient?' -- Professional knowledge -- 11. Questions for sales and marketing jobs -- Core question, 'Can you sell?' -- Professional knowledge -- 12. Questions for technical jobs -- Core question, 'Can you do the job?' -- Professional knowledge -- 13. Questions for management jobs -- Core question, 'Will you get results?' -- Professional knowledge -- 14. Questions for customer relations jobs -- Core question, 'Are you customer focused?' -- Professional knowledge -- 15. Questions for school and college leavers jobs -- Core question, 'What to do if you don't have experience' -- Transferable skills -- Professional knowledge -- 16. Tackling the difficult questions -- Handling questions about perceived areas of weakness -- Inappropriate and illegal questions -- 17. Dealing with tricky questions -- What to say when there's no clear answer -- Dealing with critical or negative questions -- questions about salary -- Answering closed questions -- 18. Answering off-the-wall questions -- What is the interviewer really asking -- Questions asking you to work something out -- 'Psychological' questions -- 19. Your questions for the interviewer -- What to ask at the end of the interview -- 20. Variations on the theme -- Different types of interview and how to deal with them confidently -- Screening interviews -- Telephone interviews -- Video interviews -- Panel interviews -- Serial interviews -- Assessment centres -- Informal interviews -- Second interviews -- 21. The interview: future trends -- Tasks and tests that are already in use and how to prepare for them -- The interview -- future trends -- Making a presentation -- Showing your portfolio -- Technical and attainsment tests -- Physical tests -- Job-replica exercises -- Group exercises -- Psychometric tests -- Future possibilities -- 22. Looking the part -- Making a good impression from the start -- appearance -- Behavior -- Overcoming nerves -- 23. What happens next? -- What to do after the interview -- While you're waiting for their decision -- If they don't make you an offer -- If they do make you an offer -- 24. Interviews in a nutshell -- The three essential questions you need to know about -- Can you do the job? -- Will you do the job? -- Will you fit in?

In preparing for an interview, it's useful to understand what organizations are looking for in a candidate. Ultimate Interview offers insight into how employers decide what they are looking for in a job candidate, how they use this to draw up the questions, how selection procedures work, why employers conduct interviews and what's likely to happen at the average interview.