These days more and more interviews or at least first round interviews are made on the phone. In these days of soaring unemployment, there are sometimes hundreds of applications for a single post, so employers whittle the numbers down by holding preliminary telephone interviews.
Therefore, it makes sense to learn how to deal with such an interview. In this piece, we will give four tips on how to become more successful at telephone interviews.
# 1 Smiling: it sounds bizarre to suggest that smiling can make a difference in a tele-interview, but it can and it does. Smiling produces a transformation of attitude and conveys confidence. This confidence will be felt by the interviewer. In the same vein, if you normally gesticulate a lot, gesticulate when you are on the telephone as well. Just be natural and normal and try to be happy. This all boils down to smiling, so attempt to smile in your telephone interview.
#2 Telephone: use a decent quality telephone. Why? Because your voice and your intonations will sound more natural. In the days when everybody leased their telephone units from their telephone firms, before it was forcibly de-regulated by the government, everyone had a good, if costly, telephone.
These days, you are able to purchase your own phone and plug it in. However, this often leads to individuals purchasing a cheap phone with poor reproduction qualities or keeping on using a phone long after it ought to have been replaced. Therefore, carry out your interview on a telephone of decent quality so that the interviewer can get an correct sense of who you are.
#3 Research: make certain you have researched the firm you would like to join. If you feel as if you know the company that you have applied to, you will feel much more confident and this confidence will come over in the interview.
Employers like it whenever their (prospective) employees are interested enough in their company that they have conducted some research into it. Having done research will also prepare you for questions like: why do you prefer to work for us? And what value do you believe that you can bring to our firm?
#4 Truth: the fourth tip is to be true to yourself. In other words, be yourself. Do not endeavour to say what you think the interviewer wants to hear. If you merely say what you think they would like to hear, you will come over as sycophantic and if you win the job you may not like it there anyway. Be yourself and get the correct career for you.
You could practice your interview techniques in mock-ups with friends or family playing the role of the interviewer. Do not forget, that the main thing in a telephone interview is confidence, so do anything you can to increase your level of confidence and do everything that you can that permits that confidence to get across.
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