Building Rapport During Phone Interviews

One can benefit from a phone interview by asking relevant questions of your own to figure out if this is the right profile for you.

It is always better to see an interview as an opportunity for you, rather than just showcasing your skills and hoping for a judgement from the employer. Your...

In-person interviews tend to focus less on the skills and experience, and more on who is more cordial or great to talk to. It does help build rapport in some cases, but also promotes an invisible bias towards the candidate’s race, gender, class and other factors unrelated to the job performance.

A telephonic interview provides us with an opportunity to prepare and keep with us key points and important notes so that any factual information or key detail is not left out in the flow of the conversation.

We can easily refer to them, provided we are not fumbling or shuffling papers. T...