Top Answers to Job Interview Questions

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• ISBN13: 9780974435558
• ISBN10: 0974435554
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Rampant Techpress

Summary

This is an indispensable guide to ensuring that you make the best possible hiring decision. The wrong decision can cost your company thousands of dollars in training expenses, or worse. For example, hiring an employee with a history of suing their employer may not be a good idea, yet few know how to find this information.

Author Biography

Donald K. Burleson is the CEO of a consulting company and the author of more than 30 books. He specializes in management consulting and screening of employees for numerous Fortune 500 Corporations.

Table of Contents

Using the Online Code Depot	1	(1)
Conventions Used in This Book	2	(1)
Acknowledgements	3	(1)
Preface	4	(2)
Key Features	6	(1)
Employer Interview Preparation	7	(22)
Introduction	7	(1)
The Employers Preparation	8	(13)
Trash the bad Resumes	9	(1)
Evaluating Employment History	9	(7)
Evaluating Academic History	16	(2)
Rating your College Education	18	(3)
How to Review Personal History	21	(8)
Your Hidden Agenda	29	(4)
How Not to Ask the Important Questions	29	(4)
Evaluating Personality	33	(18)
Personality Traits	33	(18)
Self-confidence	34	(1)
A Curious Nature	35	(1)
A Tenacious Disposition	36	(1)
Polite Manners	37	(1)
Detail Orientation	37	(1)
The Scientist Employee	38	(3)
The ``Gung-Ho'' Employee	41	(1)
The ``Empathic'' Employee	42	(3)
Using the MMPI	45	(1)
Lie scale	45	(1)
Hypochondriac scale	45	(1)
Depression scale	46	(1)
Paranoia scale	46	(1)
Hysteria scale	46	(1)
Social Introversion scale	47	(1)
Hypomania scale	47	(1)
Psychasthenia scale	47	(1)
Machiavellianism scale	48	(1)
Detecting Serious Mental Problems	48	(1)
Schizophrenia scale	49	(1)
Psychopathic Deviate scale	49	(2)
Measuring Intelligence	51	(12)
Types of Intelligence	51	(8)
Linguistic intelligence	52	(1)
Spatial Intelligence	52	(1)
Kinesthetic Intelligence	53	(1)
Interpersonal Intelligence	53	(1)
Intrapersonal Intelligence	53	(1)
Musical/Mathematical Intelligence	53	(6)
Job Questions to measure Intelligence	59	(4)
Preparing for the Interview	63	(7)
Learn about the Company	63	(7)
Do a keyword search on Google	65	(5)
The Telephone Interview	70	(13)
Telephone Pre-screening	70	(13)
The telephone tech-check interview	71	(1)
Telephone Interview Checklist	72	(11)
The On-site Interview	83	(9)
Conducting the On-site Interview	83	(9)
The on-site HR interview	83	(1)
Your on-site manager interview	84	(1)
The on-site team interview	84	(8)
Illegal Interview Questions	92	(11)
What Not to Ask	92	(4)
Age	93	(1)
Racial background	94	(1)
Religion	94	(1)
National Origin	95	(1)
Disabilities	95	(1)
Illegal vs. Inappropriate Questions	96	(4)
Disability & Medical Questions	96	(1)
Criminal history	97	(1)
Parental Status	98	(2)
Marital Status	100	(1)
How to handle an offended Candidate	100	(3)
Refuse to answer	101	(1)
Raise Hell	102	(1)
The Top On-Site Interview Questions	103	(7)
Universal Questions	103	(7)
Questions Candidates Ask	110	(3)
Learning about the Company	110	(3)
What a Candidate Should Never Ask	113	(4)
Best of the Worst	113	(4)
Just for fun	115	(2)
After the Job Offer	117	(3)
Evaluating the Employer	117	(3)
Evaluating you!	118	(1)
Getting Along on the Job	119	(1)
Complaints from the Scientist employee	119	(1)
Complaints from the Gung-Ho employee	120	(1)
Complaints from the Empathetic employee	120	(1)
Conclusion	120	(1)
Appendix A	121	(1)
References	121	(1)
Appendix B	122	(8)
Quiz for Computer Skills	122	(8)
General Skills	122	(4)
Internet Skills	126	(2)
MS-Word Skills	128	(2)
Index	130	(2)
About Don Burleson	132	(1)
About Mike Reed	133