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.

Phone interviews are efficient time savers for both the candidate and the employer.

Initially considered a screening round for the benefit of the employer, a phone interview also helps the candidate weed out any potential deal-breakers before investing time, money, energy and resources to ...

A phone interview can also be used to build rapport, but instead of small talk, one can build up on the conversation, avoiding stiff, rehearsed responses to whatever the employer is asking.

If the conversation is genuine, one can easily connect with the employer on a human level.

Keep in mind that the employer is making a decision based on what you say or not say in your call.

They can throw curveball questions to test your presence of mind or patience, and it is better to be prepared, than to just assume that the interaction is going to be a five-minute ...

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...