EVERYBODY knows you're not suppossed to dis a past employer, right? I've known that for years, and I just did it last week. I knew when I was doing it, that it was wrong; but I couldn't dig my way into a more positive response. In fact, that's why I bought the book. Fry takes you around those stumbling blocks with a variety of approaches, even with regard to keeping a flow in the facts that you are putting forth.

Of course, you have to do the work. As with every manual, it isn't a novel, it's behavior, and practice, not how well, (again, in my case,) you `understand' it.

You can't go wrong with the material here. It's sound, it's been tested and it's completely common sensical- it just doesn't come by osmosis. Do it, it helps. Good luck.

"Helped me get the job", Perhaps the best endorsement I can give for a book on interviewing is that it helped me get the job I wanted. I graduated recently from an Ivy League college with a great record, but I failed after a round of interviews to secure the jobs I wanted. I bought Ron Fry's book, studied it, and realised the many things I was doing wrong during interviews.

This is probably obvious to the savvy, but fresh graduates may not realise that interviews are not the time and place to "be yourself", but to prepare and approach it purposefully like a saleman trying to get the customer to buy the product.

"Terrible Formatting & Poor Content", The format of this book is horrible!! The content is formatted like you might expect with Questions and Answers. Unfortunately, the author doesn't keep it simple. Instead you will find "Green Light" and "Red Light" examples and poorly written content within slightly humorous titles. I don't have the time to go into great depth but if you want a more serious publication on interviewing then I suggest: "The Complete Q&A Job Interview Book", Jeffrey G. Allen. The formatting and content complement each other well.

Best of luck to you!

"designed for upper level postions, but still good", this is a great book for the price....

however, this book is not geared toward entry-level positions at all... i am applying for an assistantship for grad school and it is not quite geared toward this either, however, the book has great organization and great topics... it does have some great questions to help you think before you sit down for the real thing!