TRAPS: As inall matters of your interview, never fake familiarity you don’t have. Yet you don’t want to seem like a dullard whohasn’t read a book since Tom Sawyer.
BEST ANSWER: Unless you’re up for a position in academia or as book critic for TheNew York Times, you’re not expected to be a literary lion. But it wouldn’t hurt to have read a handfulof the most recent and influential books in your profession and on management.
Consider itpart of the work of your job search to read up on a few of these leadingbooks. But make sure they are qualitybooks that reflect favorably upon you, nothing that could even remotely beconsidered superficial. Finally, add arecently published bestselling work of fiction by a world-class author andyou’ll pass this question with flying colors.