How to Interview Like a Top MBA: Job-Winning Strategies From Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors: Job-Winning Strategies From Headhunters, Fortune 100 Recruiters, and Career Counselors / Edition 1

by Shel Leanne

Overview

Strategies for turning your next interview into an offer—as taught at today's leading business schools

Every job interview is a one-shot opportunity to dramatically improve your career and lifestyle. World-class MBA programs recognize this fact and now provide their students with detailed courses and coaching on how to dress for an interview, what to say, what not to say, and more.

How to Interview Like a Top MBA presents today's best-of-the-best strategies and skills into an all-in-one, MBA-level interviewing how-to. Featuring insights from Fortune 100 executives, headhunters, career counselors, and MBA graduates, this no-nonsense guidebook arms you with:

• Tips for highlighting your relevant skills and experience with concise, compelling, and well-structured answers
• Information you should know about an interviewing company, its industry, the position, and even the interviewers themselves
• Ways to directly address résumé weak spots or periods of extended unemployment—without apologizing!
• Techniques for identifying and highlighting transferable skills when you're looking to enter a new profession
• Worksheets, charts, and other hands-on tools for mapping out a powerful interview strategy and plan of action
• 100 sample questions you can expect to hear—with sample answers that can impress your interviewer

In today's ultracompetitive and uncompromising job market, the next position you get will set the tone for the rest of your career. Let How to Interview Like a Top MBAshow you how to develop the skills and confidence you need to enter each interview as a top candidate—and turn that interview into an exciting new job.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780071418270
Publisher:	McGraw Hill LLC
Publication date:	12/22/2003
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Dr. Shel Leanne is the president of the Wilshel Corporation, an educational and career consulting service. A former McKinsey & Company consultant, a Harvard graduate, and a former Harvard faculty member, she runs interview workshops with MBA students at Harvard, Wharton, Columbia, and other top business schools.

Table of Contents

	Preface	vii
	Introduction	xi
Part I	Best Practices
Chapter 1	Create a Great First Impression	3
Chapter 2	Do Your Homework in Four Key Areas	15
Chapter 3	Use Your Resume as an Effective Interviewing Tool	33
Chapter 4	Demonstrate a Fit Through Your Responses to Key Questions	55
Chapter 5	Shape the Interview with Responses to Open-Ended and Turnaround Questions	69
Chapter 6	Address Clear Weaknesses (Without Apologizing!)	81
Chapter 7	Present a Strong Explanation if You've Been Out of Work	87
Chapter 8	Demonstrate Business Relevance if You're a Nontraditional Hire	97
Chapter 9	End Your Interview Excellently	111
Chapter 10	Follow Up, Reinforcing a Positive, Lasting Impression	119
Part II	100 Tough Questions and How to Answer Them
	General Resume Questions	127
	Questions About Career Goals	137
	Questions About the Available Job	141
	Questions About Your Education	155
	Questions About Your Qualifications	163
	Questions About Your Leadership	171
	Questions About Your Career Progression	187
	Questions About Losing or Leaving Your Job	191
	Other Difficult Questions	195
	Personal Questions	201
	Personality Questions	209
	End-of-Interview Questions	223
	Index	227