Job Interviews For Dummies, 4th Edition

In the newly published fourth edition of Job Interviews For Dummies® (Wiley / 978-1-1181-1290-8 / December 2011 ), author Joyce Lain Kennedy walks job seekers through the emerging landscape of data feeds and streaming video to a contemporary close-up of the all-important job interview. The book is a perfect guide for:

 —     Managers and rank-and-file employees

—     Job seekers in small, mid-sized or giant companies

—     Rookies, seasoned pros, and career changers.

Although cosmic shifts have occurred in how job seekers find and participate in interviews in a digital age, what hasn’t changed is an interview’s function as the centerpiece of the search. That’s where the decision is made about who gets the job and who doesn’t.

Already a best-selling classic  — and twice the national winner of  the year’s best career book award (a rare honor bestowed by the Independent Book Publishers Association), Job Interviews  For Dummies, 4^th Edition will continue to help hundreds of thousands of interviewing job seekers get the offer. Here’s a glimpse of fresh information found in 10 all-new or dramatically updated chapters.

New! Chapter 2: Reveals how to survive automated screening phone and video calls, which are filters that usually don‘t allow “do over’s” to repair flubs.

New! Chapter 3: Explains essentials to succeed in video interviews, including body language and lighting.

Updated Chapter16: Details the right responses when faced with a charge of legitimate, but questionable multiple identities.

New! Chapter 24: Suggests savvy answers to 10 tricky questions that, if answered incorrectly, can send you walking away without a job.

New! A generous appendix of job interview questions for 13 career fields and industries.

The new realities of the job market require new responses. Job Interviews For Dummies, 4^th Edition advises job seekers how to interview in a world grown increasingly complex, interconnected and competitive. And although it continues to be an authoritative guide, the book manages to cracks a smile now and then by using wit and wisdom to spotlight an informative dimension in job interviewing.