Winning Interview Strategies: Make the Most of Job Meetings

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 or not you get the position you want. You can prepare for the interview just as you do for many another tests and enhance your chances of winning an offer.

A new book may help you do just that: "Don’t Blow the Interview," published by St. Martin’s Griffin and written by Ralph Ferrone, a long-time advertising executive in New York who has made a deep study of the art of the interview.

Ferrone argues that 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.

"The greater your knowledge, the more confident you will be," he writes. "The more confident you are, the greater your interview success. The greater your interview success, the greater your potential for faster job placement."

By Marshall Loeb

From Marketwatch

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