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My current job is a result of a phone interview only. I was quite surprised when I was offered the job the following morning without having a face-to-face one. I'm contracting for a Fortune 100 company and discovered that they are not allowed to conduct face-to-face interviews anymore.
Be prepared since it may be your only interview.
--- On Tue, 11/25/08, Deborah Hemstreet <dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com> wrote:
From: Deborah Hemstreet <dvora -at- tech-challenged -dot- com>
Subject: Telephone interviews
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Tuesday, November 25, 2008, 9:53 AM
Hi Everyone,
Is anyone familiar with telephone interviews? Is this the norm these days?
Would you have any tips for that type of an interview? The only one I
had before was about a year ago... when they said I kept interrupting
them... but it sounded to me like they were done speaking, and I wanted
to ask a question about what they were saying... so I know now not to
talk much... but then, what is the point of a telephone interview?
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