Obviously, if someone is going through the effort of preparing for an interview, they deserve some idea of their likelihood of receiving an offer.

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For instance, if I were preparing for an interview at The Wall Street Journal, I could use Graph Search to find which of my friends and friends of friends worked there.

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In the book, author Mark Owen talks about preparing for his oral interview, the last step to being accepted.

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