These days more and more interviews or at least first round interviews are made over the phone. In these days of high unemployment, there are sometimes hundreds of applications for a single job, so employers whittle the numbers down by holding first round 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 strange to advocate 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 experienced by the interviewer. In the same vein, if you normally gesticulate a lot, gesticulate whilst you are on the telephone as well. Just be natural and normal and attempt to be happy. This all boils down to smiling, so attempt to smile in your telephone interview.
#2 Telephone: use a good quality telephone. Why? Because your voice and your intonations will sound more natural. In the days when everyone rented their telephone units from their telephone firms, before it was compulsorily de-regulated by the government, everybody had a decent, if expensive, 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 sure you have researched the firm you want to join. If you feel as if you know the firm that you have applied to, you will feel much more confident and this confidence will come across 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 strive to say what you think the interviewer wants to hear. If you only say what you think they would like to hear, you will come across as sycophantic and if you win the job you might not like it there anyway. Be yourself and find the correct job for you.
You should practice your interview techniques in trials with friends or family playing the role of the interviewer. Do not forget, that the foremost thing in a telephone interview is confidence, so do anything you can to raise your degree of confidence and do everything that you can that permits that confidence to be conveyed.
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