Phone Interviews
I absolutely hate phone interviews.
For some reason I get even more worked up/ nervous about a phone interview then I get over a normal face-2-face interview. I think it has a lot to do with not being able to gauge the interviewers reactions to my responses. Also a phone interview is usually just a preliminary interview, so I start thinking “I have to do this well, or I won’t even get the face to face interview” and then I have to do the face to face interview well too, and it’s just all very stressful. Especially when I REALLY want the job. Then you can multiply the stress and nervousness by 20.
I had one of these preliminary phone interviews on Friday at 1:30pm, after working my part time job for 8 hours and my full time job for 10. Yes, I was already up for over 24 hours when I had to do my phone interview, for a job that I really want. I was very nervous and worried about this, just hoping that I wouldn’t sound tired or groggy.
I did a lot of prep work the night before the interview. Reading things on the organization’s website. Writing down my strengths and weaknesses. Going over my answers to common questions, coming up with questions to ask them. I felt prepared.
And then the interview lasted about 10 minutes. She asked me about 3 questions… it didn’t really feel like a legit interview, like she learned anything about me that wasn’t already on my resume. I asked her some questions, but I just ended it feeling like I didn’t sound natural, that I was asking some pretty stock questions.
*Sigh*
So I’m hoping that I wasn’t asked many questions because this stage was more of a just wanting to make first contact, that they are already planning on offering me the second interview. I hope this isn’t wishful thinking, but hope is something that you have to hang onto in this process.
She told me they had about 70 resumes for this position. They choose 12 for a phone interview, and were planning on having about 3 come in for face to face interviews. I hope my chances have increased from 1 in 12 to 1 in 3. I know I’m qualified. I know I would do an awesome job. I just hope I get the chance to prove it to them.
All you can do is hope right?
