Interviewing Simplified: Executive Coach Reveals How to Interview Strong Enough to Be Selected as the Best Candidate for the Position and Receive the Job Offer You Deserve.

INTRODUCTION

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of INTERVIEWING SIMPLIFIED, which you’ll learn about in the next chapter.

However, before we continue, it’s important to understand that this book is one of forty books that comprise a new Success Training Program.

This program was created for you, regardless of your occupation, position, or level of authority, to help you achieve the effectiveness and success you deserve.

The first ten volumes (see OTHER BOOKS) address these core competencies of your effectiveness and success in business:

Followership, Delegating, Planning, Organizing, Communicating, Problem-Solving, Awareness, Training, Motivating, and Character-Building.

The second ten volumes (see Other Books) provide a more detailed explanation of how to master these ten specific business skills.

Writing, Speaking, Team Building, Managing Risk, Coaching, Managing Projects, Managing Meetings, Achieving Goals, Making Decisions, and Building Consensus with a Team.

I created this series to give you the essential best practices and critical success skills needed to rise above the crowd, be the best at whatever you do, and stand out rather than just fit in.

I’m Ed Murphy, the founder of The Effectiveness Institute. After graduating from West Point, I served 24 years as a US Army Officer during both Vietnam and Desert Storm, traveling all over the world.

After the military, I spent the next 20+ years as an Executive Coach in Corporate America, working with hundreds of business executives, small business owners, and teams in Seattle, San Diego, Kansas City, and Phoenix.

During my career, I was always searching for why some people are more effective and successful than others. 

As a result, I discovered that they were able to achieve extraordinary success by doing these three things:

By consistently producing excellent results.

By adding greater value to all those who helped them produce their results - especially their boss.

By treating all those with whom they worked with respect and kindness, regardless of how they were treated.

This SUCCESS TRAINING PROGRAM was created to help you do these three things better than anyone else.

I created this Success Training Program based on all the best practices I’ve learned from the best and brightest people with whom I served over my 78 years on the planet.

What makes this program so unique is that it:

Gives you the most actionable best practices needed to consistently produce excellent results that you won’t find anywhere in academia or corporate America. 

Teaches the most critical success skills used by the most effective people in their field, which you were never taught in school.

Provides step-by-step instructions for each best practice, explaining:

What to do.

How to do it.

The tools needed to make it happen.

No one else does that! Think about it!

These are all simple things you can easily learn today and use tomorrow.

I know you'll enhance your value as you learn, use, and share what you learn here.

Join us and discover why our readers come away saying,

I wish I knew this stuff years ago.

This program is my legacy, my small contribution to making a difference in the lives of all those I leave behind.

Enjoy the book!

Also, if this information could help someone else, please let them know. If it makes a difference in their life, they’ll be forever grateful to you, as will I.

To your SUCCESS!

Founder of The Effectiveness Institute

Stop wishing you were better and do something about it today.

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INTERVIEWING

SIMPLIFIED

This book is the revised and updated 2025 edition of INTERVIEWING SIMPLIFIED, How to interview strong enough to be selected as the BEST candidate for the position and receive the job offer you deserve.

It’s the 34th volume in a forty-book series of a comprehensive Success Training Program (see OTHER BOOKS).

Here, you’ll learn how to use the most actionable tactics, techniques, and tools to enhance your ability to excel at job interviews.

What’s the purpose of any job interview? I’ll bet you think the purpose is to get a job, right? Wrong! This could not be farther from the truth.

The purpose of any job interview is to screen you out, to eliminate you from consideration. This is the ultimate test of you’re your ability to sell yourself.

This means you’ll need to speak a language every employer understands, PCF/BOE.

After reading this book, you’ll know how to speak PCF/BOE and interview strong enough to be selected as the BEST candidate for the position and receive the job offer you deserve.

If you are currently unemployed, I know from experience that there’s nothing more stressful than trying to conduct a job search.

It’s a SCARY time! I’ve been there!

You have no cash flow, and you’re surviving on savings and getting help from friends and family. The fear and uncertainty of when you’ll be reemployed are crushing on you and your family.

Your biggest frustration is the silence; your phone never rings—even after weeks and months of effort. You’ve done everything you know how to do, and nothing so far has worked.

The fear of the unknown, embarrassment, lack of self-worth, and self-doubt are mounting. You’re desperate and ready to take any job just to support your family.

How much longer can you continue your insane behavior, doing the same thing over and over again while expecting a different result? There must be a better way!

Well, there is, and it’s time for a change – this is why I wrote this book. I can help you!

I bring 21 years of experience as an Executive Coach, helping hundreds of people, from recent college graduates to CEOs, find meaningful employment. I worked for four of the largest consulting, outplacement, and e-cruiting companies in America in Seattle, San Diego, Kansas City, and Phoenix.

One of my clients said it best when he wrote,

"Thanks to Ed, I learned the secrets of running a successful job search, and in only two weeks, I found my career position. I