An unofficial online survey by BuzzDash found that 82 percent of respondents consider themselves better at telephone interviews (televiews), while 18 percent think they represent themselves better in person.
If you’re one of the 82 percent, does this mean that you:
— catch interviewers looking at the food between your teeth?
— watch employers staring at your job-hunting garb?
— happily consider cues from body language irrelevant?
— really don’t want to see the person you might be working for next?
If you answered “yes” to any one of these and you job hunt that way, you’re really not job hunting.
Spiff up, please.
Consider that body language is relevant — yours and theirs — unless you’re working solo on a space ship. If you want to hide behind a telephone, hunt for the nearest telephone job. Then, live a musty life in the career dungeon.
Keep in mind the consequences of not wanting to see the person you might be working for next. That person just might not want to see you.
Mildred L. Culp welcomes your questions at culp@workwise.net
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