Tips to ace the job interview

It could be the most important hour of your career.

The job interview is the precious period in which you are sized up by a powerful person who may well decide whether you get the position you want. You can prepare for the interview just as you do for many other tests and enhance your chances of winning an offer.

A new book may help you do just that: "Don’t Blow the Interview" is written by Ralph Ferrone, a longtime advertising executive in New York who has made a deep study of the art of the interview.

Ferrone says your goal in the interview is to stand out from the crowd of applicants. So, when you’re preparing, learn all you can about the employer, its market and competitors.

By Marshall Loeb

MarketWatch

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