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title = "301 Smart Answers To Though Interview Questions - Vicky Oliver"
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date = 2019-11-24
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updated = 2021-02-12
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[GoodReads Summary](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/287009.301_Smart_Answers_to_Tough_Interview_Questions):
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In today's job market, how you perform in an interview can make or break your
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hiring possibilities. If you want to stand a head above the rest of the pack,
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301 Smart Answers to Tough Interview Questions is the definitive guide you need
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to the real, and sometimes quirky, questions employers are using to weed out
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candidates.
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I have to be honest and say that I dropped the reading of this half-way through
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it.
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Right out of the bad, the author warns that one shouldn't simply repeat the
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answers she's giving here, but put it their (the reader) own twist. And she
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does a good thing by adding, after the answer, some tips around the answer
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itself: why it works, what you shouldn't do, why such questions are asked...
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But not every single answer have an explanation. They are there by themselves,
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which makes a bit hard to put your own twist on them if you don't have any
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pointers on why it works.
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Also, so answers are simply... to hard to agree with. For example, if you have
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kids and the interviewer asks if you had any problem staying up late working,
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the answer is around the lines of "Fuck no. Fuck my kids. I love work. Go
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work!" Not on those terms, but the interviewer is basically asking if you would
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mind letting go of your time with your kids and you should answer "sure, fine"?
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Obviously, you're trying to get that job, but what would happen if you say
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something like "I don't mind staying late working instead of seeing my kids"
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only to, months later, have your boss pissing on your hear for going home early
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'cause one of your kids is sick? Are you going to answer "but it was my kid,
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and they were sick!"? That's not what you said in the interview...
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Obviously, there are things you can do to doing fine in an interview, but I
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guess lying is not one of those.
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