Getting a job can resemble winning the Grand National - you have to get over every jump, pass every obstacle. The interview process is becoming longer and more demanding - 5 stage processes are common, and people are filtered out at every stage.

This book can help you get past the obstacles and avoid being filtered out. A collection of short, digestible, actionable articles full of advice you can immediately use to prepare for your next interview, getting you through the often gruelling interview process - and one step closer to your dream job.

Filtered Out highlights include:
The best way to craft your CV and cover letter
How to overcome and tackle a lack of experience
The most popular interview questions (that you should know the answers to)
Which words you should avoid using at all costs
What to do after a bad interview
Things to consider before accepting a new job

With additional content to help you overcome new online interviews, including:
The basics behind online interviews
Tackling the AI interviewer
 Where to start with Psychometric tests

This is a practical, easy-to-use workbook designed to be written in - for use by young graduates, those trying to get promoted and build their careers and senior executives wanting to change company, get promoted or join the Board.

The top 45 interview questions are listed, with guidance from the author (an accomplished storytelling and speaker coach who has coached thousands of people around the world) about what each question REALLY means and what they are REALLY asking you. It is a book designed to become your career companion - that you can write in, work with and from, update and use for the rest of your career.

"I have reviewed books for national newspapers that are six times as long as this and have less than a tenth of the content. Peter know what he wants to say, he says it clearly and then he moves on to the next point. At every stage of this book, you are learning something new, and learning it well. If you stay as focused as the book is, you'll go far". Mark Mason.

This Ben Horowitz book is remarkable. Nothing trite or copy and paste here. No theoretical nonsense. Real and useable experiences of real people portrayed vividly and with relevant lessons for every CEO, CFO or COO. Essential reading for leaders in business, politics and communications. All my C suite clients get this book from me as a gift - it’s that good. 

I have coached founders from two Andreessen Horowitz a16z portfolio companies, who have also been personally coached 1-2-1 by Ben. They are impressive people in their own right and they all rate his brain and his human-ness.

These are such fundamental books by Simon Sinek that every leader at every level should own them and read and reread them. They are essential reading for leaders.

Why is the most important question. Why is your sat-nav. Successful CEO's understand this and apply this to the way they approach each day.

Denise Graveline’s book is great for novices and professionals who want a refresher. She had a massive career in journalism, the US government and industry before she became a speaker coach and a fellow TEDMED Speaker Coach. She introduced me to TEDMED so we had a long history.  

She won Washington PR Woman of the Year, coached over 100 TEDMED speakers, prepared speakers to address the U.S. Congress and had testified there herself.

She served as Deputy Associate Administrator of Communications, Education and Public Affairs at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and on the White House Council on Women during President Bill Clinton's administration. She knew her stuff.

This book is about how we get the wrong political cultures, which lead to us having an unrepresentative, often unprepared and frequently unhappy bunch of politicians who end up passing bad laws causing personal disasters on small or catastrophic scales to people who then flood their constituency surgeries in crisis.

(Recommended not just because I'm featured in it!)

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