Job Interview Drivers Made Easy: The Made Easy Series Collection, #5

By Annie Cerone

Conquer the Fear and Flip It.

Part of the Made Easy Series Collection – Volume 5 of 5.

 

Would you like to know the tips, tricks and secrets on how to conquer and flip the fear and drive the job interview process? This book is comprehensively written, easy-to-follow, and contains both practical and research-based information that will transform your mindset and performance in job interviews. In this book, you will discover the job interview is not 'rocket science'. It comes down to common sense and is not a complex process. You will learn how to apply steps to improve your preparation and performance and be in the driver's seat all the way through!

 

The Made Easy series collection is the most detailed and compact career growth and job search series on the Australian job market. The series includes five (5) books: Job Search Investment Made Easy, Resume and Letter Transformation Made Easy, Targeted Questions Made Easy, Achievements and Skills Showcase Made Easy, and Job Interview Drivers Made Easy.

 

The Made Easy series is a one-of-a-kind, all-in-one resource that will help you to correctly search and apply for the right type of jobs in line with your experience and skillset, develop attention-grabbing interview-winning documents (in particular, resumes and cover/application letters). The series also provides you with research-proven and practical techniques and tips on how to win and ace job interviews.

 

The Made Easy series provides hundreds of examples to help you get noticed, get ahead of the pack and blitz your competition, secure job interviews, own your earning power and get the job. The series is an invaluable resource that creates zero stress throughout your entire job search journey, helping you target the right jobs; which in turn, will help you to save hundreds (even thousands) of dollars in the process of job hunting, and the job application preparation and interview stages.

 

The series is written for the Australian job market yet is highly applicable and relevant to many countries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cerone
• Release date: Feb 10, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201668068

Annie Cerone

Annie Cerone is the Founder and Director of a leading nationally-recognised business, Resume by Design; specialising in career development and professional resume writing services. Annie offers comprehensive services to clients Australia-wide and overseas in the areas of resume development, cover letter creation, selection criteria preparation, job interview coaching, LinkedIn profiles, and career coaching. Annie has accumulated in-depth experience and expertise over the years in front-line human resource management in the corporate and government sectors, with extensive success in winning interviews for clients and in helping to drive them onward and upward. Annie’s client base is diverse, including school leavers and university graduates to managers and executives at the C-Suite level across numerous fields/occupations and industry sectors. Annie is continually headhunted by human resource companies and recruitment agencies to be their preferred resume writing service referral to clients. Several of them include RadfordHR, C3 Talent, CW Recruitment, and Windsor Recruitment. Also much sought-after within the education sector, since 2007 Annie has secured year-on-year business with private and public secondary schools and colleges to conduct Job Market Skills (JMS) seminars and workshops to students. Annie has achieved and maintained a success rate of over 90% in securing clients to the interview stage. Her expertise led to selection in the participation and provision of input into CareerOne’s media and public relations campaign titled ‘Top 10 Job Interview Blunders’ that was featured in The Courier-Mail. Further, Annie was approached by CareerOne’s Queensland State Manager to feature at ‘The National Careers and Employment Expo – Brisbane’ as the CareerOne Expo first prize for the Expo competition winner. The high-quality services Annie has delivered over the years led to nominations in the Telstra Women’s Business Awards in 2016, Telstra Business Awards in 2016 and 2018, and Telstra Best of Business Awards in 2021. The Resume by Design website contains over 190+ FREE selection criteria examples (using the popular STAR model) that have won interviews for clients; along with glowing client testimonials, and over 140+ 5-star Google reviews with a rating of 4.9/5.

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Featured testimonials

I have commissioned Annie Cerone over the past few years to develop all my documentation and referred many colleagues to her services. As I progressed through the ranks of QLD Government, strangely my confidence started to wane. I came back to Annie as I knew she would help me with my motivation, confidence and help ‘spark’ me up again. This time around I used Annie’s Job Interview Coaching service. What an intense, mind-expanding and richly-rewarding one-hour coaching session we had. Annie prepared specifically tailored questions that made me think laterally and very much outside the box, yet maintained logic all the way through. She pinpointed what I thought were weaknesses and demonstrated how these were in fact strengths. She made me realise the ‘monkey on my back’ holding me back was all self-doubt. Annie grabbed this self-doubt and exorcised it from me. WOW. I went into that interview calm, confident, self-assured, assertive and anxiety-free; I blitzed it and climbed the next rung to SES Band 2.

Sara T | Senior Executive Service (SES), QLD Government

How thrilled I have been with Annie Cerone and the services her business provides. I tried so many times myself to get from middle management (EL) level so the Senior Executive Service (SES) in APS Government but to no avail. I was so frustrated and disheartened until I found Annie’s blogs – the examples of selection criteria that have won interviews for her clients. I used Annie’s selection criteria writing services to help me produce a document that got me to the interview stage, which was ranked by the selection panel in the Top 3 – over 90 applications were received. I then had an interview coaching session. I got the job and I’m now at SES level.

Mariam Wilson | SES, APS Government

A no-nonsense résumé that showed real world value. This was the feedback I received from the hiring management team after submitting my résumé developed by Annie. I have used Annie's service three times already securing an interview and ultimately the position on each occasion. This is a 100% success rate! Furthermore these positions were within different industries and at least one step of progression from my previous role. Annie challenged and encouraged my thinking and helped me to understand my value, strengths and skills. Annie is highly astute and direct in providing unbiased feedback by assessing my suitability and readiness for the advertised role. She provokes my mindset into thinking why I would be the most suitable candidate and helps prepare me to handle and navigate through the pressures and challenges of interview situations.

Tim S | Branch Manager

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PART I: ESSENTIAL JOB INTERVIEW TECHNIQUES

Start on the right foot

Take back the power

The job interview need not be a daunting process. The key is for you to take back some of the power by doing your assessment during the interview process.

You want to assess the interviewer and the employer/organisation to determine whether you do want to work there, and it is the right fit for you in terms of the role and the organisation’s culture and its employees. In other words, you are also doing the interviewing!

The interview process is a reciprocal two-way process.

The employer’s primary objective:

The employer’s objective is to see if you match their requirements and to determine if you