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Have you ever had an online or video job interview?

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  • Posted by Jo Easton
  • on December 1, 2009 4:18 PM

As companies continue to look for ways to cut costs, managers often look to digital technologies. We’re looking into new developments in hiring practices, and we’re looking for people to tell us about unusual or surprising job interview experiences.

Have you had a job interview recently that defied the norm? Have you interviewed in a room where you were the only human, surrounded by computer screens? Have you done it from your living room….over Skype? Have you had to take real-time online tests?

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  • Posted by Mark Chen on January 17, 2010 10:29 PM

    Exactly as you described: from my living room over Skype. Except only I was on video and couldn’t see the interviewer’s face.

    I have to say, it’s a bit challenging because you don’t have the feedback that you might usually receive. I prepared myself as I would before a usual interview, but I was a bit uncertain how formally I need to dress for. At the end I had a semi-formal shirt but said no tie or suit. The point of the whole exercise is that the other person would be able to “know” you more than through a phone call. To that point, I think it does work better. I’ve had pretty bad interviews that was decided more by the misunderstanding between our views than the content itself. With video, I acted more as if I was doing a presentation or having a face to face and I thought they saw a bit more of the “normal” me.

    But I don’t think it replaces face to face interviews, and I think it allows more room for subjectivity from the interviewer. It’s somewhere in between.

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