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MORE answers to MORE questions than any other interviewing guide. Sell yourself with style and win the interview game! The most crucial part of your job search is knowing how to respond to the toughest interview questions ù because the best candidate doesn't necessarily get the job....the best interviewee does! In Best Answers to the 201 Most Frequently Asked Interview Questions, career expert Matthew J. DeLuca reveals the secret agenda behind every kind of question interviewers ask, and prepares you to answer them all. Never again be at loss for words when an interviewer hits you with an icebreaker...thought provoker...curve ball...stress tester...and even an illegal question that shouldnÆt be asked but needs an answer.
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Preparation, Preparation, Preparation..........2007-08-23
Well written, easy to use, practical guide to questions you are very likely to hear in your interview. While the claim to provide the "best answers" may be arguable, the questions were on target and the ideas for how one might answer them were excellent. This book is great for those who hire as well as for those who are seeking employment. Worth the investment.
I'm working!.......2007-02-11
I have been out of work for a little over a year, and all my previous employments were temp jobs so I needed to brush up on everything. After reading the reviews I decided to go with this book.
I have never regretted it since and have recommended it to close friends. I kid you not when I say that during my interview I ended up interviewing the interviewer. Before the interview I did what the book said and read up on the company and found out that they had won several awards which I later mentioned to her. Apparently none of the other candidates did their homework b/c she acted impressed over that. I asked questions concerning downsizing, why she chose to work there, how long has she worked for the company, her management style. She was very friendly and very talkative...ended up telling me about her daughter in college, her background (which I found out we were raised in the same country!), etc. Making sure not to discuss salary/benefits with her (something the book recommended and I stuck to until I met the VP who gave me what I asked for) And eventhough I had to be tested after speaking to her, I was confident enough to ask her questions during the test and be honest about things I didn't understand. She even showed me the tricks behind the test! Something the recruiter said was not done with anyone else. The only thing I wished I had done was my homework in salary negotiating. So for those of you out there, do your homework on salary and negotiating tips before the interview! Do get this book for you high school/college grad. It's easy to read, down-to-earth, and for today's job hunters.
Just Okay.......2007-01-28
There was some good information in this book. However, there's very little new infromation that's not available for free somewhere else. What's you're paying for is mainly the time it took the author to compile the infromation gathered from numerous places. Most people serious enough to buy a book like this probably won't have a problem finding work anyway.
Land your dream job!.......2006-11-24
I bought this book because I was told of pending layoffs due to selling a division of the company. I had been there almost 5 years, so I definitely needed to get a review on my Interviewing skills.
This book prepared me with questions that might be asked, possible answers and questions that cannot be asked. I especially liked Ch.10 "Stress Questions" These type questions really make you think about your career, where you've been and where you intend to go. Answers to these questions, I feel, enable you to elaborate on other questions that might be asked during an interview. It really is about the applicant as a whole and what you have to offer that company.
This book helped me land my dream job (seriously) and I hope it does the same for you!
A good book to review when looking for a job.......2006-11-21
If for nothing else the books forces you to review your work history and have every bit of information about your self available.
The numerous questions will help anyone become more familiar with one's self and be able to answer most any question without hesitation. This book does not have ALL the questions, but just reading through it and answering the ones present forces you to be aware of all your experience (good and bad). Now that you know your "work experience" you can turn it into a resume and better sell your self.
The book was a definite help for me.
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Consistently praised for its engaging writing style, currency, and visual appeal, MEDIA/IMPACT introduces students to today's converged mass media-its industries and support industries, as well as the legal, ethical, social, global, and technological issues that accompany them. Emphasizing the impact of the media on individuals and society, Biagi grounds her discussion in the fact that the media are first and foremost in the business of making money, and provides concise histories of each industry before giving students an insider's look at what it's like to work in each industry. The new edition of this enduring bestseller offers several important new features, including a media literacy case study in each chapter; enhanced chapter review materials, including new Critical Questions; an extensive online media careers guide; and an entirely new collection of video clips with critical viewing questions.
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Break the ice at your next meeting with The Big Book of Business Games!
In this exciting resource book, two of today's acknowledged games masters serve up a cookbook of activities that you can learn to use, guaranteed to generate a lively discussion, or simply give a group a "breather" from the monotony of a boring staff meeting or presentation. Each of the 75 group games and activities here is adapted from the best-selling Games Trainers Play series and shortened to suit the needs of managers and team leaders to use with their departments, staff, or committees.
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The Big Book of Business Games: Icebreakers, Creativity Exercises and Meeting Energizers.......2006-11-04
The ideas and activities in this book were varied and somewhat adaptable to a variety of audiences and meetings. I am always looking for fresh ideas to use in my presentations and workshops and this book has become a valuable resource and also sparks new ideas in myself.
Icebreakers Only.......2006-07-09
If I had the opportunity to flip through this book in a bricks-and-mortar bookstore, I wouldn't have bought it. I was looking for ways to communicate business and organizational lessons through the use of games and activities. This book is just a list of icebreaker activities without providing any of the "meat" of the lesson the activity should have delivered. Providing references for those of us seeking said content would have helped to fill that gap.
Many of the activities require visual aids. It would have been nice for the publishers to provide graphics to go along with these---perhaps a registration key for a website to download the visual tools? I would be far more likely to use the activities (and, of course, credit the authors) if the tools were easily accessible and not burdomsome to create.
I have every confidence that the book meets its intended purpose and the authors have done a good job. However, I don't feel that Amazon.com is presenting the book for what it is. I also believe the publishers could have done a better job of supporting this publication to make it truly useful to the purchaser.
In general, if you are completely at a loss for how to get people interacting with one another at a meeting or training session, this is a good "creativity sparker" to get you thinking.
Another "Big Book" that doesn't deliver.......2002-11-22
I took a chance and purchased five selections from the "big book" series. I titled a previous review "The Big Book of Disappointment." Too bad. I ought to have saved it for this publication.
Chapter two of "The Big Book of Business Games" is titled, "How to Use This Book." My suggestion? As kindling or compost. In the book you will find 54 activities. The nine dot problem and the human knot are examples of the many common activities found in countless other books.
You'll also find suggestions for "presentation boosters." One "booster" example: Display two flip charts. On one ask what things were valued about how the meeting was run. On the other ask how future meetings might be improved. As part of the description you are reminded to "tear off the flip charts and return to your office. . .celebrate your success and change something needing improvement." In the book, the previous activity actually merits a two page description.
Applying their exercise to their book, I'd say I valued very little if anything. How might future books be improved? Provide NEW activities or suggest creative variations for the countless recycled exercises. Also, be certain the content is relevant to a business audience. A skilled facilitator will find a way to successfully use most any of the activities in this book. However, a skilled facilitator is also likely to have a number of better selections in her bag of tricks to choose from.
Once again if the price entices you to purchase this book, I'd suggest you keep exploring. You will find a number of resource books available on Amazon.com that are significantly better.
The big Book of Business Games.......2001-11-30
Basically from the contents, it can be said to be a very practical book that any manager can use to liven up meetings and more importantly to get the members of the team to come together.
These exercises can be fun and purposeful for the the users and I think I would really like try out some of the great ideas put forth.I run meetings and workshops for my staff and certainly could use the ideas from the book.
Great for the Price.......2000-02-19
I've used a number of the games in this book and found they've helped me achieve my goals with the team. They stimulated converstaion and team building. One game I found particularly useful was the "Tie that Binds" in visually demonstrating how interdependent we are as a team. I found this book a real bargain and a good book for getting started at using games within meetings to build teams, emphasis concepts, and introduce topics.
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With a strong emphasis on media convergence throughout, this book helps readers develop a system-wide view of the interacting social, historical, economic, and technological forces at work in today's rapidly evolving mass media. Written by two highly regarded scholars and teachers, this book goes beyond other textbooks to help readers understand where, how, and why they fit into the contemporary media environment. Too often, mass communication texts rely only on popular publications or on academic research. In this interactive text, they have combined the concrete practice of journalism with empirical research, enabling students to comprehend the impact of the dynamic media that are an integral part of our lives today. Folkerts and Lacy guide readers through today's whirlwind of mass communication by providing them with the information and critical thinking skills necessary to consider objectively the media and its roles in their lives.
For anyone interested in gaining knowledge of the media.
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Media in your Life is Must Reading for Mass Com Students.......2000-05-24
This book is an excellent introduction to mass media in America. It is one of the few attempts around to draw together a look at the various forms of mass communications--from MTV to the movies to the Internet. While intended for the college student, it also is a good reference for anyone seeking to understand the rapidly changing media landscape in America.
Media in your Life is Must Reading for Mass Com Students.......2000-05-24
This book is an excellent introduction to mass media in America. It is one of the few attempts around to draw together a look at the various forms of mass communications--from MTV to the movies to the Internet. While intended for the college student, it also is a good reference for anyone seeking to understand the rapidly changing media landscape in America.
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The Economics of Information Technology is a concise and accessible review of important economic factors affecting information technology industries. These industries are characterized by high fixed costs and low marginal costs of production, large switching costs for users, and strong network effects. Hal Varian outlines the basic economics of these industries while Joseph Farrell and Carl Shapiro describe the impact of these factors on competition policy. The volume is an ideal introduction for undergraduate and graduate students in economics, business strategy, law and related areas.
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A fair introduction.......2005-12-22
The rise of the Internet and its resulting commercialization have caused many to wonder whether the economics of the information age is governed by a different set of rules than can be found in "classical" economic treatises. If information technology is indeed different in this regard, this would be of great interest to those businesses whose goal it is to generate profits by its use. This very short book, composed of only two articles, gives a fairly good introduction to the economic issues that arise in the use of information technology. The authors in the book certainly motivate the subject well, but the length of the articles, along with the relative paucity of references, entails that the reader will have to do a lot of outside research in order to obtain a more in-depth understanding of the issues.
The author of the first article clearly believes that high-technology industries face the same market forces as any other industry, but that there are some that are of particular concern to them. Fixed costs for example are very high for information goods, but the marginal costs are very small. In addition, intellectual property is very important to the high-tech industry.
The Internet "boom" has become the paradigmatic example of the economics of information technology due to the speed in which the Internet took hold in business all around the world and in the "wild" speculation that took place in dot.com companies in the late nineteen-nineties. The author claims that the large increase in the NASDAQ during this time is evidence of the efficacy of competition, but he does not offer detailed evidence for this claim. When discussing the reasons behind the Internet financial "bubble" he also annoys the reader somewhat by referring to the differences between "rational" investors and "real people". It would be difficult he believes to cause a financial bubble with the former class but relatively easy with the latter. There is however no evidence for this view, from either historical data or from simulation studies. This reviewer knows of no study that is able to distinguish between a `rational investor' and a `real person' in terms of their ability to cause a financial bubble. It would be difficult in and of itself to arrive at criteria that would distinguish the two classes. It would be even more difficult to collect historical data to indeed show their behavior is different in the financial markets.
The author interprets the Internet boom as an example of what he calls "combinatorial innovation." This characterizes an historical period where a collection of technologies emerges whose components can be combined to form new products. Innovators cause a technology boom by working through all the possibilities in these components. This would seem to be a plausible explanation of the Internet boom, but it is one that would need to be examined with more care. The designation of a product as being innovative or an idea as being creative is difficult, as patent officials will attest to wholeheartedly. In addition, innovation must also be correlated with utility, in that products must be useful to the individuals or businesses that are using them. And arriving at a sound notion of creativity and innovation is also very important to those who want to automate these processes. If information technology can itself be trained (or "programmed") to create useful products, this would be very significant economically (possibly resulting in another technological "boom"), and would have major ramifications for employment and productivity.
The second article of the book is concerned with the economics of intellectual property in information technology, with particular emphasis on the role that it plays in the competitive strategies of IT firms. Legal issues are discussed in various places in the article, giving some insight into their complexity. The authors discuss the current schism between the `incentives' school, which emphasizes the ability of innovators to claim financial awards for their creations, and the `openness' school, which emphasizes the role of open (and essentially free) development in the public domain. There have been few empirical studies done on resolving which one of these approaches is optimal in terms of the creation of wealth or the creation of social benefit.
In discussing the issue of whether the patent system can provide any incentives for a private firm to make a commitment to innovation and research, the authors outline a simple mathematical (static) model to illustrate the tradeoffs that are involved. The results of this model indicate that the patent system will not offer sufficient incentives for investors. The authors point out however that this model is too simplistic to model the real issues involved in the economics of the patent system, and that a dynamic model would reveal that patent holders are able to obtain rewards that are much greater than the social contributions they make. They do not discuss this model at any length, nor give references to the "large literature" they claim exists on patent system economics. One would like to know for example what the dependence of the incentive is on the lifetime of the patent; whether a patent system can be optimized with respect to all industries, i.e. whether it can ensure optimal incentives regardless of the products offered; the degree to which patents have to be original or "creative" in order for incentives to be optimal; whether empirical studies have been done that indicate vulnerabilities to patent issuing; and whether a company can exist solely by innovation and the resulting licensing of patents.
Good enough to make it a required text.......2005-08-21
This is a great concise treatment of the topic with footnotes sufficient to allow the interested reader to perform further research. I am seldom disappointed by Varian's work, and no exception here. This is good enough that it is now part of the required reading for my course "Economics of Technology" in the Masters of Information Management program at Washington University in St. L. - Prof. Steve Parsons
Really worth reading!.......2005-02-19
As a graduate student in Economics having an undergraduate degree in Information Management, I pay much attention toward those "new economy" issues. The Economics of Information Technology illustrates the application of economic knowledge on information technology in an easy and clear way. As Professor Varian argues, "Many of the effects that drive the new information economy were there in the old industrial economy-you just have to know where to look." (p. 12), the authors demonstrate how to use the models we learned in microeconomics to discuss the development of information technology as well as the rationales behind intellectual property. The economics used throughout this book is pretty straightforward; anyone who has the most essential microeconomic knowledge can understand the whole book. Besides, the authors also review the most recent issues in intellectual properties and patents and then propose ideas about the reform of the patent system. This book is undoubtedly a very good introduction; furthermore, it exemplify some further applications and research directions, which would also benefit those who want to take a step further into this field.
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Introduction to Mass Communications (12th Edition)
Warren K. Agee ,
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Enhances your knowledge and links the other theories of type together.......2007-03-19
This is a great book once you get past the rather condesending first couple of pages. (tells you to be true to yourself which as it is a book on personality seems a little obvious to me but may be useful to others)
The book takes you through the 4 interaction styles and then how they link to other models such as MBTI, Temperament Theory, Disc, Socaial styles, Thomas-kilman (although that is not the main point of the book it is useful information). The interaction styles themselves are based mainly around the role you might play in a work/project environment and the Patterns of Interaction Styles section is a fantastic overview of the drivers of the types.
Overall an excellent build on personality type.
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Offering both real-world and theoretical perspectives, this book features exceptionally comprehensive yet manageable coverage of a broad spectrum of E-commerce essentials from a global point of view. Extremely user-friendly and practical, it features vignettes, application cases, and real-world cases in each chapter.
Market Mechanisms. Products and Services. Market Research and Advertisement. Company-Centric. Exchanges and Collaboration. E-Government, B2E. M-Commerce. Infrastructure and Application Developments. Privacy, Legal and Security. Payments and Order Fulfillment. Strategy, Going global, and Internet Communities.
For anyone interested in e-commerce. Ideal for busy executives.
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wordy and confusing.......2004-02-11
I am using this book in my Masters of Info Systems class this semester and I have to say it is one of the worst text books I've ever read for a class. The topics go back and forth, often picking up an earlier topic in later chapters when they could have been easily included in the same chapter, and key concepts are discussed before they've been formally introduced.
All in all it's pretty wordy and confusing without need to be.
Please don't use this book to teach an EC class!!!.......2004-02-03
This book did nothing to enhance my knowledge of E-Commerce. The terms used in this book are not terms that are commonly used. The authors should not be writing textbooks or instructional guides. The illustrations and diagrams did nothing to help the reader understand the material. The diagrams were literally a joke used just to fill up space. I quickly got tired of being given a short definition and told it will be discussed later. The book doesn't flow and leaves the reader frustrated. The authors use of E-Commerce terminology was too often bogged down in clichéd rhetoric. Don't use this book to gain knowledge about E-Commerce you'll find yourself falling asleep and rereading sentences way too often.
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Using Communication Theory: An Introduction to Planned Communication
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"Accessible, authoritative, and up-to-date, the book does an admirable job of bridging the gap between communication theory and many different kinds of applications." --Denis McQuail, University of Amsterdam Eminently useful both for the student and practitioner, Using Communication Theory is not a how-to book or a book of checklists. Instead it familiarizes practitioners working in the field of communication planning with the many theories of communication and their application to planned communication programs. For the student, it is a handy introduction to communication theory, bridging the gap between theory and practice. The authors introduce communication planning concepts and strategies as well as the role of the communication planner: elaborate on some of the theoretical appproaches; and present several mass communication theories and elements of theories used in designing strategies in communication planning.
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