The telephone interview

Here are some simple but very important steps to get the job you desire.

Your personal dates must be very clear and precise, so the companies’ interviewers contact you sooner;

When you are looking for a new job and you are waiting to be interviewed over the pone, make sure that the messages on your answering machine are not too long and tasteless;

When you are called by a certain company, try as much as you can not to entangle in the details of other jobs that you may have been interested in;

Practice! With a friend try to put yourself in the situation of being called by a certain company, try to lose the emotions, and to find the right words and the right attitude!

When you are called by that company, make sure that you are in a quiet place where you can talk, where you may take some notes and where you can concentrate!

If you don’t have enough time to communicate all the details to the interviewer, suggest an alternative so that the next time the company calls, you will be interviewed by the same person.

Write in an agenda your main ideas or questions that you will communicate with the interviewer. In this way it will be easily to go from one stage to the next; underline with a marker all the recommendations you have because you may need them;

When you are called, speak clearly to make yourself understood; make sure that you understand what the interviewer is saying too;

It is preferable that when you are being interviewed on the phone you sit comfortable in a chair or in an armchair. Some experts think that those who are relaxed have higher chances to be promoted than those who are tensed and rigid;

When you are being interviewed it is advisable not to chew gum or to drink in a way that may be disturbing for the one you are talking to.

Don’t be silent! Even if you have answered in detail to the question asked by the interviewer and you see that he is not asking anything else for the moment, ask some data that would interest you or that may help you get the job;

During the interview try not to cough or sneeze; if you can’t avoid this, pardon yourself in an elegant way;

Make sure that at the end of the interview you finish the discussion with well-thought questions, structured in a way that would get you clear and precise answers from the interviewer.

Good luck!