Product Description

The interview strategies that help graduates of the nation's top business schools get the best jobs with the highest salaries

Interviewing for a job is more than answering questions. The most successful candidates are those who've done their homework, who come prepared with polished answers for every question, and who know how to steer the conversation where they want it to go. Now professional career coach Shelly Leanne--a Harvard graduate--teaches job seekers proven interview techniques taught at the nation's top business schools. How to Interview Like a Top MBA arms job seekers with:

• Insights and advice from top corporate executives, headhunters, and MBA program administrators
• Worksheets, charts, diagrams, and other valuable tools for creating a customized interview strategy and plan of action
• Valuable lessons on how to read interviewer signals, take control of an interview, turn weaknesses into strengths, ask the right questions, and much more

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #30831 in Books
• Published on: 2003-12-26
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

Book Info
Text presents today's best-of-the-best strategies and skills in an MBA-level interviewing how-to guide. Covers how to dress for an interview, what to say, what not to say, and more. Softcover. DLC: Employment interviewing.

From the Back Cover

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 MBA show 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.

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.

Customer Reviews

Terrible
I got a thousand times better tips on a 2 buck kindle book Interview tips from a chronic job hopper than I did this book.

The Best of Several Books
This book helped me secure a great job. I read five or six books on the same subject and this one by far was the best. It gives you the nuts and bolts of what you need to do. I highly recommend this book.

Other books are better
I just finished this book, and find it to be poorly written, and carelessly laid out. At the end of each section there are comments by people who are "in the industry". These comments are repetitive to the subject covered in the pages prior, and it seems that either the authors writing was tailored to fit the "industry experts", or vice versa. The sample answers to the sample interview questions seem too cut and paste, and often site examples that are not applicable to most applicants.

Not an awful book, but definitely not up to my standards.