Acing the Interview: How to Ask and Answer the Questions That Will Get You the Job
Author: Tony Beshara
At some point, most people have been caught off guard by tough interview questions. This book helps readers take charge of the situation! In Acing the Interview, the employment expert Dr. Phil called "the best of the best" gives job seekers candid advice for answering even the most unexpected questions, including:
• You really don't have as much experience as we would like—why should we hire you?
• How many hours in your previous jobs did you have to work each week to get everything done?
• What do you consider most valuable—a high salary, job recognition, or advancement?
The book also arms readers with questions to ask prospective employers that could prevent their making a big job mistake:
• What would you say are the worst parts of this job?
• What are the major problems facing the company and this department?
• Why aren't you promoting from within?
Taking readers t hrough the entire process, from the initial interview to evaluating a job offer, and even into salary negotiation, Acing the Interview is a no-nonsense, take-no-prisoners guide to interview success.
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Crunch: Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? (And Other Unsolved Economic Mysteries)
Author: Jared Bernstein
Is Social Security really going bust, and what does that mean to me? If I hire an immigrant, am I hurting a native-born worker? Why does the stock market go up when employment declines? Should I give that homeless guy a buck? What's a "living wage"? How much can presidents really affect economic outcomes? What does the Federal Reserve Bank really do? Why do I still feel so squeezed?
If you'd like some straight answers, premier economist Jared Bernstein is here to help. In Crunch he responds to dozens of questions he has fielded from working Americans, questions that directly relate to the bottom-line, dollars-and-cents concerns of real people. Chances are if there's a stumper you've always wanted to ask an economist, it's solved in this book.
Bernstein is fed up with "Darth Vaders with PhDs" who use their supposed expertise to intimidate average citizens and turn economics into a tool for the rich and powerful. In the pages of Crunch, Bernstein lays b are the dark secret of economics: it's not an objective scientific discipline. It's a set of decisions about the best way to organize our society to produce and distribute resources and opportunities. And we all can, and must, participate in these decisions. "America is a democracy," he writes. "And in a democracy all of us, not just the elites and their scholarly shock troops, get to weigh in on biggies like this."
Our economy will be only as fair as we can make it. In this lively and irreverent tour through everyday economic mysteries, Bernstein helps us decode economic "analysis," navigate through murky ethical quandaries, and make sound economic decisions that reflect our deepest aspirations for ourselves,our families, and our country.
Publishers Weekly
Starred Review.
According to economist and author Bernstein (All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy), the endless parade of economic legislation and corporate criminality that keep the rich getting richer are all a direct product of economic knowledge being monopolized and manipulated by the rich, keeping the middle and lower classes woefully unprepared to understand, much less stand up to, the economic forces aligned against them. Fortunately, this accessible overview should clear things up for even the most befogged reader. Answering questions from an average American perspective-"the ones in the vise grip of the crunch"-Bernstein explains murky topics like health care reform, minimum wage laws, the Federal Reserve, immigration and budget deficits with a clear, friendly manner that sidesteps any scholarly (and/or sinister) obfuscation. His progressive "we're all in this togther" philosophy, though seemingly familiar, is backed u p with enough data and savvy to illuminate what's wrong in the dominant "self-reliance" narrative of American political discourse. This down-to-earth, populist guide to the pressing economic issues of our time is a clarifying, useful and empowering resource.
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Richard Drezen - Library Journal
Economist Bernstein (All Together Now: Common Sense for a Fair Economy) has done the American electorate an enormous service by writing this witty and perceptive primer on economics-and just in time for the presidential election. He covers virtually all aspects of economic activity and candidly notes and responds to the basic concerns of ordinary Americans. Espousing his concept of "progressive economics," Bernstein largely succeeds in cutting through the fog of typical economic mumbo jumbo with refreshingly straight talk, making indicators like "gross domestic product" (GDP) easy to understand. Wondering if those tax cuts for the rich really are necessary? Bernstein convincingly argues they're not. Is the country in a recession? He shares some invaluable insight showing that, if we aren't already in a recession, we might soon be facing one. Unfortunately, his discussion predates the economic stimulus package recently passed by Congres s. The bottom line for Bernstein is that economics should provide solutions, not create problems, for consumers. To that end, his book is a clarion call to remind us that the political slogan "It's the economy, stupid!" is just as timely as ever. Highly recommended for all business/economics collections.
What People Are Saying
Robert Kuttner
"Jared Bernstein‹the rare economist who writes lucid English‹has a gift for making difficult topics easy to grasp without dumbing them down. Bernstein's latest superbly timed book, Crunch, is a must-read guide to the economy's current slide and its effect on us all."--(Robert Kuttner, Founding Co-Editor, The American Prospect)
Elizabeth Warren
"Crunch is a dangerous book. Anyone who reads it will be armed with new ideas to start kicking back at the false economic theories that have ensnared this country. The book is witty, irreverent, and easy to read, but don't let that fool you. It's powerful."--(Elizabeth Warren, Leo Gottlieb Professor of Law, Harvard Law School and coauthor of All Your Worth: The Ultimate Lifetime Money Plan)
Senator John Edwards
"Jared Bernstein's new book is a must-read for everyone who cares about restoring economic fairness in an America with the greatest income inequality since the Great Depression. Drawing on everyday examples, Crunch is an accessible explanation of economic principles presented with equal parts of insight, humor, and stimulation. In the process, Bernstein explains how we got to where we are, what to do to fix it, and why fighting for a fair society is so important."
Jonathan Chait
"Jared Bernstein has written a fun, user-friendly primer that tells you everything you need to know about the economy. I liked it, you'll like it, and if you read it you can stop feeling guilty that you forgot everything you learned in that freshman econ course."--(Jonathan Chait, Senior Editor, The New Republic, and author of The Big Con: The True Story of How Washington Got Hoodwinked and Hijacked by Crackpot Economics)
Table of Contents:
Preface iv
Introduction: So What Is Economics, Anyway? 1
The Big Squeeze
Why Do I Feel So Squeezed? 6
Econ-Noir 12
All Is Not As It Appears: Measuring Economic Outcomes 16
Whatever Happened to the Cleavers? 20
The Health Care Squeeze 25
The Medical Industrial Complex 29
Health Care Reform 34
Poverty Amid Plenty: The Whats 38
Poverty Amid Plenty: The Whys 41
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? 44
The ABCs of Worker Pay 47
What's So Bad About Inequality? 50
All Education, All the Time 54
Don't Know Much About GDP
Gross Domestic Product 61
Unemployment: Wall Street vs. Main Street 64
Underemployment 68
Making Better Doughnuts 71
Inflation 74
What's a Recession? 77
Blowing Bubbles 83
The Night of the Living Wage (and Other Scary Stories) 87
Your Textbook Got It Wrong 91
Political Economy 202
Social Insecurity 99
Economists in Chief 104
The Fed 109
The Budget Deficit (Part 1) 114
The Budget Deficit (Part 2, in Which a Nobelist Agrees with Me 118
The Economy and the Military 1 21
Guns or Butter 124
A New WPA? 128
"Please Remain on the Line" 130
The World Ain't Flat As All That
What's Right and Wrong About Globalization? 135
Outsourcing 141
The Conscience of a Shopper 144
World Trade 148
Globalization and Greed 151
How the Capitalists Killed Capitalism 152
Undocumented Workers 154
The Not-So-Great Immigration Debate 156
What's So Bad About a Labor Shortage? 159
The Mighty Dollar 161
Can Economists Save the Planet? 164
The Reconnection Agenda
Easing the Squeeze 169
Heal th Care 173
Immigration 178
Education 180
Globalization 183
What's Left? 186
Conclusion: The Lesson of the Rink 191
Notes 199
Acknowledgments 219
Index 221
About the Author 226
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