This book gets off to a good start in its introduction, with a compelling list of "Ten Common Interview Mistakes," followed by a road map of all of the topics the book covers. The subjects are comprehensive and cohesively organized.
The rest of the book falls into two main sections, covering interviewing best practices and 100 tough interview questions. The best practices will be useful to
those who haven't read other interviewing books. However, their most important lessons can be gleaned merely by reading the table of contents. (Example: "Shape the Interview with Responses to Open-Ended and Turnaround Questions.")
The "tough questions" section is what holds the potential to distinguish this book from the masses of unremarkable job-search literature. Its advice for answers is sound, but formulaic: "I have qualities A and B, as exhibited by when I did C. I know D about your company, which shows how A and B will be important for the job, so I am ideally suited for it." Even questions about the interviewee's shortcomings follow this basic formula, with a prefix: "I was in difficult situation X, and it didn't turn out well because of Y. I learned from the situation and now..." Several answers are disappointingly trite. The worst was an example lauding soccer as an extracurricular because of "the way I have to focus on attaining goals." Also, many questions are more applicable to recent graduates than experienced hires.
The book is worth a quick read, and the repetition of the Q&A section serves as a good do-it-yourself interviewing drill, but it's certainly not exceptional.
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