100 Interview Answers

A hundred interview questions, each with an answer written out in full, ready to be filled with your own material.

Tell me about yourself. What is your biggest weakness. Why is there a gap in your CV. Tell me about a time you failed. What are your salary expectations. Why did you leave your last job.

FOR EVERY ONE OF THE HUNDRED
- What is really being asked: the question underneath the question
- What to say: a complete model answer, about ninety seconds, to be read aloud rather than memorised
- Make it yours: the three or four places to substitute your own details
- They will follow up with: the two probes you will get next, each with a reply
- What sinks it: three specific ways an otherwise good answer fails

THIS BOOK WILL NOT HELP YOU LIE. Not one answer invents an achievement, conceals a dismissal or inflates a title. Every model answer is a structure for saying something true about yourself clearly and in ninety seconds, which is the actual skill being tested.

IT COVERS THE QUESTIONS PEOPLE LIE AWAKE ABOUT. The gap on the CV. The dismissal. Four jobs in five years. Eleven years in one job. Being overqualified, too young, or returning after five years away.

AND THE TWENTY MINUTES MOST CANDIDATES WASTE. Salary expectations, notice periods, what to do when they ask what you earn now, and ten questions to ask them with what a good and a worrying answer actually sound like.

AT THE BACK: a 48-hour preparation sheet, and an index that finds your questions by your situation - first job, changing career, returning after a break, explaining a redundancy, first management role, internal promotion, or the one-hour version.

The last entry in the book is a question you ask them. Almost nobody does, and the people who do report that it changed the outcome.

No employment law, no industry jargon, no country. Plain English throughout.