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Part 4:
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employer’s needs, but they’re rarely ready at the end
of a phone interview to tell you what they’re going
to do next about you. And Aberham particularly
doesn’t like it when something like “How’d I do?” is
the only question you have for him.
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Businesses continue to look for effective ways to
communicate with their employees, as well as job see-
kers, customers, and investors. The idea of phone inter-
views for job seekers may seem odd to some people,
but many firms are finding this method of screening
prospective employees to be both efficient and effective.
Of course, as noted, there are both advantages and dis-
advantages to phone interviews.
Case Questions
1.
Experts suggest that you dress professionally for a
telephone interview even though the interviewer
can’t see you. Do you agree that this is important?
Why or why not?
2.
In getting ready for a telephone interview for a
new job, what are the three or four things for
which you most want to be prepared? If you
were getting ready to interview someone else for
a job, what are the three or four major things
that you’d expect that person to be prepared for?
3.
Matt Aberham warns against simply trying to “sell
yourself” during a phone interview. You agree, but
you also believe that selling yourself is one of the
things that you have to do as a job seeker. What
sort of strategies do you regard as legitimate and
effective in trying to sell yourself to a phone inter-
viewer (or an in-person interviewer, for that matter)?
4.
Think of one or two experiences from your own
life that you’d particularly like to come up in a job
interview. What sort of questions might allow you
to “take the initiative” in making sure that they
didn’t fall through the cracks? How much time
do you think each incident would be worth in a
30–45-minute interview?
5.
Using Skype and similar methods has become quite
popular in setting up the complete online conversa-
tion. How would the use of this technology modify
a telephone interviews? How about other forms of
communication, such as text messaging?