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Not gonna work for initial phone interviews....
by gee_totes 14y ago
Not gonna work for initial phone interviews....
- duck 14y agoThis sounds simple, but the key is to avoid phone interviews. I'm terrible on the phone as well, and when I was looking for my last job I thought about this a lot. Looking back, I had received a job offer about 90% of the time when I had a face to face interview, but for phone interviews it was more like 10%. With that in mind, I focused on getting in person interviews the last time and found that even if someone asks for a phone interview, often you can ask/convince them to do a in-person. This might mean you have to travel on your own (or maybe they'll pay for it), but by knowing your previous rate of success you can focus on getting the job you want.
- drdeadringer 14y agoIs there such a thing as an interview over IM?
- welp 14y agoI'm deaf, and almost every company I've interviewed at which was going to perform a phone interview was willing to either a) skip the phone interview; or b) perform the interview over IM instead. (Even IBM was flexible enough to set up an IM interview over IRC on one occasion, and GTalk with a couple of their engineers on another.) Don't be afraid of asking to interview using over IM rather than over the phone.
- duiker101 14y agoWell, I think that refusing you(and OP) and interview because of situation might create some HR issue?
- KiwiCoder 14y agoI've done this twice for candidates with speech impediments. It works well.