60 Seconds & You're Hired | 
|  | | | Title: | 60 Seconds & You're Hired | | Author: | Robin Ryan | | Publisher: | Penguin (Non-Classics) | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 01 January, 2000 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0140289038 / 9780140289039 | | List Price: | $13.00 | | You Save: | $2.60 | | Amazon Price: | $10.40 | |
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Product Description
Concise advice and easy-to-learn techniques for mastering the interview process and landing a great job.
In a book that can be read from cover to cover the night before an interview, Robin Ryan lays out the essentials for making a great impression on potential employers. Designed for all job seekers--whether they're just starting out or moving onwards and upwards--60 Seconds & You're Hired! presents sure-fire strategies based on current hiring trends, including how to:
give the best answers to the interviewer's questions
communicate that you are the right person for the job using Ryan's 5-point agenda and 60-second sell techniques
ask the questions you should
avoid common pitfalls that cause most people to fail
negotiate the best salary and benefits package possible
Packed with insiders' tips from hiring managers, 60 Seconds & You're Hired! offers the best and quickest route to clinching a dream job.
"Robin Ryan is one of the nation's foremost authorities on what it takes to get a job in today's market."-- Tampa Tribune
Amazon.com Review
A vocational counselor for 20 years and the author of five career-related books, Robin Ryan says job interviews are like everything else these days: With time shrinking and distractions growing, you must sell yourself in short sound bites or you probably won't sell yourself at all. And as she believes that--even in job interviews--this means many of us can no longer truly focus our attention for more than a minute at a time, that's how she oriented this snappy career guide. The updated edition of 60 Seconds & You're Hired! (originally published in 1994) incorporates recent hiring trends and some strategies to meet them, but essentially reiterates Ryan's original method for effectively consolidating top attributes into five key themes and then repeatedly communicating them in precise, under-a-minute exchanges. She clearly explains how to distill strengths into verbal bullet points, refine them for specific interviews, and succinctly deliver them in appropriate responses. (For example, "What do you know about our company?" is a chance crisply to combine what the firm needs with one or more of your key themes.) The advice can be absorbed and utilized even the night before an interview, but more preparation would undoubtedly increase results. --Howard Rothman
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Customer Reviews:
• It Works. Pure And Simple. 12 July, 2006
It's hard to review this type of book, so I'd like to tell what happened when I used this book.
I applied online for my dream job. Thanks to my resume I was selected to be interviewed by phone. But thanks to this book I was then selected to be flown me over for an series of in-person interviews.
It was because of this book that I nailed the interviews and was offered the job on the spot after my last interview, something extremely uncommon in my industry.
This book is such a quick an easy read. In fact, she gives away the technique at the beginning of the book. The rest of the book explains how to tweak the technique. Sure, like someone else said, some of the prepared answers to typical interview questions are too cheesy or not realistic, but at least they give you something to use as the foundation for YOUR answers for those questions.
I then used some of her salary negotiation techniques to sucesfully increase the salary amount that they originally offered.
I am now living where I've wanted to live for years, doing a job I enjoy and making over $12k more than at my previous job. This book should cost at least 10 times as much.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A4LPSXSPYOS5Z
• Didn't Work Out, Try Again 10 January, 2007
The book contains excellent advice for a person who is serious about obtaining his dream job. I received the book the night before the big interview and read as much as I could. The interviews went extremely well. However, they gave the job to the other candidate.
I have since finished reading the book and am looking for the next opportunity.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1SL5ZQHN5VCJI
• A Great Interview Preparation Book 25 November, 2007
I purchased this book after being laid off and it was a tremendous help! I felt prepared for any question when faced with an interview. I was hoping a new revision would come out, since technology has changed, and noticed a new book is due out in Jan '08. You rock Robin!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A1N0KEY09XUHV6
• Maybe It Was Timing, Maybe It Was A Book 04 March, 2008
I had many interviews before reading this book, but no offers. After reading this book and learning how to answer interview questions in a concise, yet detailed manner, I got my first job offer which I accepted. I was also offered another position. So maybe it was just the right timing and the right job for me to have when it was offered, but I believe this book did help me to interview better.
- Reviewed by customer ID: ABI4X9GG0GZH8
• Preperation Is The Key! 20 May, 2006
As an Executive Recruiter, I coach people everyday on how to interview. Without the proper preparation the candidate will fail to move forward in the interview process the majority of the time. 60 Seconds and your Hired is a simple read; however, it is one of the most powerful books of its kind on the market.
If you really read this book, and take the advice given, you will ace your next job interview, no doubt about it!
- Reviewed by customer ID: AES0LS030BD0X
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