Mastering the Job Interview offers detailed advice on how to develop a winning interview strategy. It outlines the basic interview principles, reveals the core skill set most recruiters seek, and provides practical tips for preparing for the job interview. In addition, this book offers guidelines for writing an impactful résumé that will showcase your strengths and highlight your value proposition for the recruiting company. The discussion is complemented by an overview of strategies for managing the personal experience interview and creating a meaningful narrative about your own strengths and weaknesses that showcases your value to the recruiter.

Mastering the Case Interview offers detailed advice on how to ace the case interview. This book outlines the general principles of managing the case interview, delineates the most common types of cases, and outlines a framework for approaching each type of case. The discussion of the basic principles of case analysis is complemented by an extensive array of interview examples that includes 20 sample case discussions and 200 practice questions.

People interviewing for jobs today often fail because they are using yesterday’s strategies. Technology is becoming more sophisticated and virtual assessment centers are being used to assess how strong candidates are in key competency areas. Global competencies are being used to help organizations choose people for international assignments or simply to work on diverse international teams. The best employers are constantly changing the way interviews are done. This newly revised edition of Competency-Based Interviews offers you a new and more effective way to handle the tough new interviews so that you will emphasize the knowledge, skills, and abilities that you have and that employers demand. Preparing for a competency-based interview will give you the strategy you need to: Be selected for the most competitive positions Win the best job at a new organization Get a great first job or internship Be chosen for that critical promotion in your current organization Take control of your career path Increase your salary Secure more interesting assignments and more interesting work

Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond offers an in-depth and captivating step-by-step guide to the use of semi-structured interviews in qualitative research. By tracing the life of an actual research project–an exploration of a school district's effort over 40 years to address racial equality–as a consistent example threaded across the volume, Anne Galletta shows in concrete terms how readers can approach the planning and execution of their own new research endeavor, and illuminates unexpected real-life challenges they may confront and how to address them. The volume offers a close look at the inductive nature of qualitative research, the use of researcher reflexivity, and the systematic and iterative steps involved in data collection, analysis, and interpretation. It offers guidance on how to develop an interview protocol, including the arrangement of questions and ways to evoke analytically rich data. Particularly useful for those who may be familiar with qualitative research but have not yet conducted a qualitative study, Mastering the Semi-Structured Interview and Beyond will serve both undergraduate and graduate students as well as more advanced scholars seeking to incorporate this key methodological approach into their repertoire.

Marc Cosentino demystifies the consulting case interview. He takes you inside a typical interview by exploring the various types of case questions and he shares with you the acclaimed Ivy Case System which will give you the confidence to answer even the most sophisticated cases. The book includes over 40 strategy cases, a number of case starts exercises, several human capital cases, a section on marketing cases and 21 ways to cut costs.

With an emphasis on the three major stages of interviewing: exploration, clarification and action, ESSENTIAL INTERVIEWING, International Edition offers students the same programmed-learning model of interviewing that has successfully trained countless members of the helping professions for nearly 30 years. Based on Ivey's systematic method of interviewer, counselor, and therapist training, as well as Hearn's programmed-learning model, the text makes interview skills clear and specific. The authors give students the tools they need to conduct successful interviews with diverse clients in a variety of professional settings, including social work, counseling, nursing, personnel work, and human services.

Written by one of the top professors at Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, Mastering the Case Analysis offers a systematic approach to analyzing business cases typically given in MBA job interviews. An overdue and much-needed aid to support students' preparation for case interviews, this book introduces an integrative framework for analyzing business problems and offers a detailed overview of the essential methods and concepts used in case analysis.