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I'll say that getting rid of phone interviews is wrong, unless you are keeping "phone screens" which are just making sure that the person isn't wildly out-of-pl

• kasey_junk 12y ago
  I think in general, you should advocate a "get a cup of coffee" approach to the first technical contact point in the hiring pipeline. The focus should be on describing the process, describing the job, doing a sales job on the company etc. You shouldn't really be looking to filter at all at this point, rather you should be presenting an opportunity for the candidate to self filter. The only thing I filter for at all in that case is if the person does not have enough communication skills to even continue with the process (ie they only speak a language that no one in the hiring pipeline speaks). Now, it is sometimes impossible to scale up those coffee meetings either due to locality, scheduling, whatever so a phone conversation is the only choice. In those cases though, I think the mindset is the important thing. It isn't a phone screen. It's still just getting coffee, over the phone, with no coffee.