"The job interview is the single most important step to getting a job offer. Everything you have done thus far in your job search - conducting research, writing resumes and letters, submitting applications, and networking - should have prepared you for the job interview. All too often candidates return from a job interview lamenting, "I can't believe they asked me that!" They made numerous mistakes that could have been avoided had they simply prepared well for the interviews. This book reveals 110 tips to help you quickly prepare for your next job interview. Examining the whole interview process, the tips relate to: Attitudes, Questions you should ask, Interview strategies, Traditional and behavioral questions, Different types of interviews, Nonverbal communications, Responding to a job offer, Negotiating salary and benefits, Following up the interview, Closing the interview, Asking for the job." "This is not another Q&A interview book on how to provide clever answers to tricky interview questions, recite 30-second sound bites and pitches, or play the role of the perfect interviewee - behaviors that may make you sound coached, inauthentic, and suspect. Instead, it focuses on what employers want from you as a candidate - understand who you are in terms of what you have done, can do, and will do for them in the future. They are most interested in your pattern of accomplishments." "In the end, you have a compelling story to tell prospective employers, which should include employer-centered examples, illustrations, descriptions, statistics, and comparisons that relate to your accomplishments. When you tell your story in this manner, you will most likely persuade employers to hire you. The 110 interview tips outlined in this book will better prepare you for the job interview. If you put our tips into practice, you'll no longer join the ranks of surprised job seekers who return from a job interview lamenting, "I can't believe they asked me that!" Instead, confident of having made a good impression, you'll probably leave the interview with the employer saying, "I can't believe we found such a fine candidate. Let's hire!" Book jacket"--Book jacket.