Preparing for your Phone Interview with a Recruiter

Read this before your next phone interview.

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This article was written for candidates who are interested in joining Caseware but can serve as a general guidance to prepare for the phone interview.

Hey 👋

Thank you for being here 🙏

I am glad that we will have a chance to connect.

So the question that you might have:

What should I really expect from our first call?

My phone interviews are normally slightly different because I know that traditionally you would probably get an opportunity to ask your questions in the end, whereas I would love to always open with giving you the space to ask your questions.

Most people don’t understand it, but I’m going to share it very transparently.

The quality and sophistication of the questions that you ask tell me everything I need to know about your communication skills, your articulation skills, your ability to put thoughts into words, and the complexity of your thinking processes.

It tells me a lot about thinking maturity, your depth and sophistication, and your social and emotional intelligence.

Really, I can’t emphasize this enough for candidates out there — the questions you ask can make it or break it.

So, this would be the beginning of our conversation.

• What do you know about us? Have you done your research in the company, and do you really understand the role?
• Then, I’m going to walk you through everything else that’s probably not in the job description, and any additional context that you need to know (my job is to provide you with maximum information so that you can make this informed decision).
• And then I will open a forum for your questions.

This would happen before we dive into the part where it is my turn to ask questions.

So what questions do I ask?

Every time I enter a call, this is the question I really have: what’s going on with this human? What’s going on in their reality, and how can we change their reality? How can we explore some new alternative variations of their reality?