Acknowledgements
I would like to thank all of my colleagues and clients at The CV Centre®, both present and past. Without them it would clearly not have been possible for me to write The Interview Book. In particular, I would like to thank our Chief Executive Officer, Andy Dalziel, Managing Editor, Katy Wilson as well as Amanda Jones and Linda Savill and our former Director of UK Operations, Susan Staley.
I would additionally like to thank Richard Day, our former Director of Technology and Peter Anders Hvass, our Chief Technology Officer, for their significant contributions to the online elements of this book, also Kirk Hullis, our Chief Marketing Officer, for his work on the promotion of the book.
Special thanks go to the team at Pearson Education, in particular Melanie Carter, Eloise Cook, Paul East, Lisa Robinson, Lesley Pummell, Dhanya Ramesh and the editorial services team at Lumina Datamatics and Emma Steel. I couldn’t have had better publishers behind me.
Assistance in checking and correcting the text was also provided by Don Elkins, Elisabeth Elkins and Malcolm Innes.
Finally, I would like to thank my wife, Delphine Innes, and my daughter, Aleyna Innes, for their love and support and their toleration of my frequently working very excessively long hours! Je vous aime…
Publisher’s acknowledgements
The questions on page 66 are reproduced from Edenborough (2009) Brilliant Psychometric Tests, Pearson Prentice Hall, © Pearson Education Limited 2009.
An apology in advance …
It is impossible to write a book of this nature in such a way that all of the content will be perfectly suited to everyone. My readers range from manual workers to senior executives, to office staff and those who work in retail. Some will work in a team; some won’t. Some will have a boss; some will be the boss.
I’ve done my best to deliver a book which covers, as much as possible, all the different circumstances my readers might be in and all the different issues they might have to face. But there will inevitably be sections which don’t apply to your own circumstances or where the focus is either above or below your level in the hierarchy. I can only apologise for this and hope you’ll be kind enough to forgive me. My advice is to take what you need and to leave the rest.