Subtitled 1,000 Ways to Assess your Personality, Creativity, Intelligence and Lateral Thinking, this book is enormous fun - endless quizzes like the ones women's magazines have been running for decades.

The whole thing only becomes frightening when you consider how much some employers rely on psychometric testing to assessing the suitability of job applicants, as highlighted recently by the case of the salesman sacked by B&Q after performing inadequately in a personality test. The authors say this book shows what employers are looking for.

(John Wiley & Sons, £6.99)