This book was OK - but mostly, it was common sense. I would recommend it to those who have not already been given similar advice from employment counsellors or even from headhunters. Get a well-rounded self-education by reading several tomes in this category. Never only get your advice from one source.

A short, concise read for anyone looking to ace an interview.
While the author promises good tips for the reader, what I got was a sense that the tips were very similar to many out there. Of course, it is the practice, and not words in a book, that counts.
Hence, I will still recommend people to take a look at this book, for the tips are indeed timeless and supported with examples.
*I got a free copy in exchange for an honest review from NetGalley

This had some really useful tips. Highly recommend for job seekers.

This book gave great ideas of what to do during an interview.

This book had some very useful information in it, especially because I will be back on the job-search/interview path later this year, but I found the author to be a bit full of himself and that turned me off some of the writing.

This book contains some great insights from the employer's perspective and great advice for the interviewee.

Anything of use in this book is basic common sense. Unfortunately, these common sense statements are interspersed with large amounts of questionable advice, such as post interview thank you notes to EVERYONE from the interview panel to the receptionist; and pestering people with daily emails for 6 months to show you are "tenacious" and want the job. These suggestions are based on anecdotal evidence, largely from the author's own experiences. This advice will not work in every instance: one person's "tenacious" is another person's (most people's?) "desperate and annoying." As with many of the other "in my experience" moments in this book, the efficacy of this approach will be hugely context dependent, and should not be offered as universal advice. This reliance on anecdotal evidence, unsurprising perhaps given the 'insider advice' usp, is therefore, more often a hindrance than a source of good intelligence. Furthermore, the anecdotes themselves, rather than offering any sort of insight, often serve merely as platforms for the author's own self-aggrandisement. This becomes increasingly wearisome as the book progresses. Finally, the repeated claims made for the "science" of REAPRICH are absurd and overblown in the extreme.

A short promise – learn 15 insider secrets from a top recruiter and make your next job interview a very successful one.

Do you need a book like this? Do books like this really help? How good is the advice? Well, the truth is that recruiters can vary, just as candidates, so you should be wary of anything being viewed as a definitive resource. Yet this book is reasonably priced and you only have to pick up a nugget or two of useful information to probably get your money’s worth. In any case, it is far from a dumbed-down book whose content you could quickly find on the Internet, and it is worthy of a read just in case you learn something new and useful.

The author believes that their advice will help transform your job searching and hopefully interview process, and an eight-point interview success plan is offered up. It can be imagined, if one is overly critical, that cultural norms can differ between industries and particularly between countries, so you may need to be prepared to modify some of the advice. Just don’t take it as Gospel that remain cast in stone. Some of the advice seemed a little too extreme in many circumstances, but what may work in one country might not work in another. It is a case of “reader beware”, just in case.

It was not an onerous read and potentially it could be a great resource for the jobseeker. If you are less experienced at interviewing it may be an essential source of advice. In any case, it is not going to break the bank if you buy the book for a quick “interview technique check-up”. It may be hyperbole to describe some of the given “secrets” as secrets – they feel like common-sense, yet it is often the simplest, easiest and most obvious things that can get overlooked…

It is difficult to specifically recommend this book with ringing praise, yet equally it is hard to slate it. If you can get the book at a good price, or through a library, and you need this kind of advice it is worth checking it out.

Cracking the Code to a Successful Interview, written by Evan Pellett and published by Blackstone Publishing. ISBN 9781441700537. YYY