Author:James Reed
Learn the secrets to excelling at interview
You can't prepare an answer for every interview question. So, of the thousands of questions they might ask, which ones will they ask?
After extensive research among hundreds of interviewers and thousands of interviewees, finally here's the book that will give you the answer. Why You? is based on direct input from top interviewers in REED's unrivalled recruitment network, offering:
- Powerful preparation techniques that will help you succeed on the day
- Approaches to questions assessing your career goals, competency and creativity
- Tips for boosting your confidence and adopting a winning mindset at interview
From classics like 'tell me about yourself' and 'what are your greatest weaknesses?' to puzzlers like 'sell me this pen', James Reed finally reveals what interviewers are really asking.
This book has already helped thousands of readers move on in their careers - and it will help you do the same. Now completely revised and updated for our new post-pandemic world of work.
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Reader reviews:
'This book got me my new job. I have never in all my life had such a positive experience at a job interview' Michael A. Sweeney
'This book helped me understand what the other side actually wanted. It boosted my confidence.
It allowed me to compose relevant answers. I GOT THE JOB!' Dougal5
'I was recently made redundant after 11 years with a good company and was worried at stepping back into the world. So I bought this book and read it through in just a few days. I had a series of interviews for a job I really wanted to get and I got the position' Mo
The Good Enough Job is an incredibly propulsive read, filled with characters whose stories will be at once familiar and astonishing - and it will absolutely challenge you, in the best way possible, to change the way you think about work. This isn't a book about burnout, or addiction to a certain type of work - at least not precisely. It's a book about how so many people have come to root their entire sense of value in the work that they do for pay - and what happens when that strategy begins to sour.
—— Anne Helen Petersen, co-author of OUT OF OFFICE and author of CAN'T EVENSimone Stolzoff provides an important corrective to the modern impulse to either villainize or lionize our jobs, arguing that it's okay for our work to be just one element among many that contribute to a life well-lived.
—— Cal Newport, New York Times bestselling author of DIGITAL MINIMALISM and DEEP WORKI couldn't stop reading The Good Enough Job. It's packed with sharp analysis about modern work culture and vivid, surprising, page-turning stories of people who have sought - often clumsily, always bravely - to detach their sense of meaning and self-worth from their productivity as workers. In this timely dissection of what our overworked culture is doing to our psyches, I was startled to recognize myself. You will, too.
—— Vauhini Vara, former technology reporter for the Wall Street Journal, story editor at the New York Times and author of THE IMMORTAL KING RAOThe Good Enough Job is a thorough, insightful, and much-needed reminder that we are not what we do at work. Weaving his own experiences with surprising stories and research, Simone reveals why the modern world makes it so easy to fall under workism's spell-and how we can finally disentangle ourselves from its clutches.
—— Liz Fosslien, bestselling author and illustrator of BIG FEELINGS and NO HARD FEELINGSThe Good Enough Job is a super helpful guide for anyone looking to renegotiate their relationship with work and to better fit their career goals into a happier, more fulfilling life.
—— Laurie Santos, Chandrika and Ranjan Tandon Professor of Psychology at Yale University and host of The Happiness Lab podcastA much needed book that unfolds the surprising secrets of resilience. Something I never knew I needed to read but I'm so glad I did, its opened up a whole angle of thinking.
—— Nadiya HussainA fascinating analysis of resilience - what it is, what is isn't and why, when we develop it together, it becomes something better and more important, fortitude. It seems that resilience is a team game.
—— Alastair CampbellEntertaining. Engaging. Educating. Three words that sum up this cracking read, which offers a timely - and much needed - challenge to the traditional definition on resilience.
—— Professor Damian Hughes, co-host of the 'High Performance' podcastFortitude explores and validates what most of us who work with people feel in our gut when it comes to debunking doctrine about resilience and singular toughness. A fantastic contribution.
—— Dr Pippa Grange, author of 'Fearless', former Head of People & Team Development at The Football AssociationDeeply thoughtful, provocative and insightful Fortitude will push you to question assumptions, think again about your life narrative and probably care more about your friends and community.
—— Professor Lynda GrattonIs "resilience" more than blaming victims and telling them they need to act stronger? This wonderful book is Bruce Daisley's personal quest - through his personal experiences and his appetite for digesting rigorous research - to learn about the overused concept of resilience. What Bruce learns is intriguing and important, and hopefully will help us become better parents, leaders, and friends.
—— Professor Daniel Cable, author of 'Alive at Work'A riveting read - Fortitude lifts the lid on the orthodoxy of Resilience and shows us where true strength lies. Fortitude is a tour de force.
—— Julia Hobsbawm, author of 'The Nowhere Office'One of the UK's leading "workfluencers" [offers] up ahead-of-the-curve takes on the future of workplace cultures . . . Fortitude is an easy to read and well-research book that will appeal to anyone . . . Daisley challenges some of the empowerment narratives that have become unquestioned staples of organisational life . . . [and] offers "fortitude" as an alternative.
—— Financial TimesAn absolute revelation . . . It's with collective support that you can develop resilience. Your own resilience or individual fortitude is not something you do or don't have, it comes from the extent to which you are supported by others. The extent to which people face these issues of resilience is massively divined by the structural inequalities we face.
—— Ed MilibandFantastic
—— Geoff LloydThe core teaching of Ideaflow of getting out into the real world, quickly is the antithesis to my training as an MBA but I've since become obsessed with the art of experimenting, iterating, asking, and listening in order to build a massively impactful company that is unique in the marketplace. Founders shouldn't miss this book.
—— Aishetu Dozie, Founder and CEO of Bossy CosmeticsTwo masters of the craft provide a roadmap about how you can develop your creativity practice and help those you work with do the same.
—— Linda A. Hill, Chair of the Leadership Initiative, Harvard Business School and co-author of COLLECTIVE GENIUSOver the last decade, Jeremy and Perry have become my go-to innovation gurus! This book is essential reading for anyone running an organization that desires to enhance and expand innovation. Beware the tidal wave of ideas that will follow once you start reading!
—— Mark Hoplamazian, CEO of HyattA penetrating, provocative investigation into the subject of time - how to understand and live with it - on both an individual and societal level ... impressive
—— Shelf AwarenessTemporal structure has its comforts, particularly following a tumultuous three years ... That yo-you effect [of the last few years] drew me to Saving Time, Jenny Odell's sharp book tracing the cultural forces that shape our conception of time
—— Laura Regensdorf, Vanity FairOdell fights to provide us with an alternative way to experience the time we have
—— i PaperAmbitious ... a pleasure to read ... thought-provoking
—— New ScientistA sweeping yet personal challenge to assumptions Western society makes about the relationships between individuals and the finite hours in a given day
—— Time MagazineOdell argues convincingly that our daily experience is dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside
—— Irish IndependentThe best beach read of the year ... Read it, and then think deeply about how you are reading your own time
—— The Media LeaderOdell's latest book, Saving Time, is great at analysing where a lot of our notions about how to use our time came from (hint: capitalism).
—— RTE IrelandOne of President Barack Obama's 'Favourite books of 2019'
—— President Barack Obama on How To Do Nothing