acknowledgments

We are grateful to our friends, colleagues, and clients who contributed stories of their real interview situations for this book. To protect their privacy, we have changed their names and other identifying characteristics.

We want to thank the team at Manning Publications, especially Mike Stephens; Marina Michaels, our amazing development editor; and Paula Nordhoff, our superb technical editor. Paula is a career consultant working with executives on a global scale to manage and upscale their careers.

To all the reviewers: Alex Ware, Alireza Aghamohammadi, Amy Lavelle, Andy Miles, Anita Trupiano, Anuj More, Archana Rao, Bang Nteme Jean-Baptiste, Bruno Couriol, Cesar Aguirre, Dave Corun, Dottie Hunter, Douglas Puenner, Earl Bingham, Eli Richmond Hini, Gaurav Toshniwal, Harinath Kuntamukkala, Harsha Patil, Hilde Van Gysel, Ian O’Connor, Jagadish Kamisetti, Jaganadh Gopinadhan, Jason Simon, Javid Asgarov, Jon Feraro, Julie Tyree, Kalai Chelvi Erudia Nathan, Ken Alger, Marcos Paulo Rocha, Mary Anne Thygesen, Nadir Doctor, Nathan Brouwer, Ninoslav Cerkez, Pavel Bazin, Philippe Vialatte, Piotr Jastrzębski, Pradeep Bhattiprolu, Pradeep Kumar Saraswathi, Radhakrishna MV, Ron Lease, Sameer Wadhwa, Satish Prahalad Gururajan, Scott Morrison, Serenity Smile, Shantanu Kumar, Shruti Singh, Sofija Jaglicic, Stacie Shannon, and Vinit Dhatrak, your suggestions helped make this a better book.