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Four Tips for Acing Interviews by Phone

Mindy Gikas was interviewing a senior-level manager on the phone in October when suddenly the job candidate paused. He said he was reading an email, recalls Ms. Gikas, a managing director in New York at Ogilvy Public Relations Worldwide, a unit of WPP Group PLC of London. "It showed me that his conversation with me wasn’t very important," she explains. He wasn’t invited to interview in person.

Job hunters often mistakenly believe that phone interviews are less formal than face-to-face meetings, recruiters say. Yet they’re a critical first hurdle in landing a job.

For applicants, the goal of a phone interview is to secure an in-person meeting. For recruiters, it’s to narrow their list of prospects. You can increase the odds of passing this initial screening if you follow the advice in these four tips:

By Sarah E. Needleman

Full Story: http://www.careerjournal.com/jobhunting/interviewing/20060207-needleman.html?cjcontent=mail

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