| Topic Name: |
Phone Interview |
| Message Name: |
some tips |
| Date Posted: |
08/18/2004 |
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I have a phone interview this week and I was wondering what to expect. Does anyone have any helpfull ideas on how to come across professional? |
| Message: |
1. fix a convenient time for the call when you know you can be undistracted. take half a day off from work if required.
2. be available ten minutes before the appointed time and answer the phone yourself!
3. make sure you're in a quiet area...without music/ traffic/passing trains/bawling kids/ screaming friends/barking dogs in the background.
4. dress well (!), sit straight and 'put a smile in your voice' as you talk. it affects into how you sound on the phone. if you're wearing boxers and glugging beer on the couch as you talk, it comes through too.
5. put a face to your interviewer's voice and tell yourself you're in a face to face situation. but remember that gestures like nodding cannot be seen. think of alternative ways to convery the same things.
6. if the interviewer is a foreigner whose accent you don't understand, feel free to politely repeat the question and confirm if 'that' is what they said.
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