It’s no secret that the great way to prepare for a job interview is to practice answering interview queries. Indeed, the more interview queries you’ve an answer for, the more likely you’re to confidently supply the interviewer with a response that leads to your employment.
Still, how do you know what queries will be inquired? You could make them up from the top of your head, but it is far more convenient to simply find a list of common job interview queries and practice answers for them. One such list can be discovered in a book known as “Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions” by Matthew Deluca.
Book Contents
- How to Answer Personal Questions
- How to Answer Educational Questions
- How to Answer Experience Questions
- How to Answer Questions About Behavior
- How to Answer Illegal Questions
Pros of Book
Every candidate can and should benefit from knowing common interview queries and how to answer them. “Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions” supplies those queries, and offers a run down on strategies for answering each kind of query (educational questions, experience questions, etc.). These are beneficial to all job candidates. “Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions” also provides you background information on why the query was asked in the first place (involving how it was designed to trick you), permitting you to respond accordingly.
Cons of Book
This isn’t a bad book, but it does have a number of weaknesses. First of all, several queries in the book are irrelevant in today’s job world, so while it might be offering 201 questions, not all of them are going to be relevant. Secondly, the book is lacking in extra job interview information. Interviews aren’t just about the queries, and it is the opinions of this author that any interview book should give a great deal of extra interview tips in additional to queries. Otherwise you will have to purchase more than one book to learn all of the ins and outs of job interviews.
General Impressions
“Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions” is really what it sounds like – a book with interview queries and answers. There is nothing wrong with that. Yet it does feel like there should be a bit more to it. Queries and answers are great, but if the queries don’t occur during the job interview, then the book becomes retroactively obsolete. It is not a bad book by any means, but there might be better places to go to get queries for your interview.