Telephone Interviews

TELEPHONE INTERVIEWS – TIP OF THE WEEK

Once your resume is out there, the next step in the hiring process is usually a phone interview with an in-house or third party recruiter. Someone who is an intermediary between you and a hiring manager. These interviews, done on the phone, require different approaches to answering the interview questions than a face-to-face interview.

Print out a copy of your resume

After you send out twenty or thirty resumes over a couple of weeks, you start to not remember exactly what’s on the resume. But the recruiter will be asking questions about your experience and job skills from your resume, so it is best to have that out so you can follow along.

In addition, your resume should have good work results (accomplishments) listed with your work experience (“improved cycle time by 20%, resulting in $100K savings to the department). These items will trigger explanations of how you achieved the results to the recruiter. If there is a result on a resume, you need the ability to describe how it was achieved.