Phone Interviews are Interviews, Treat it like one!
I have conducted thousands of phone interviews in my career and candidates continue to make the same mistakes. For some reason most candidates feel that phone interviews are not really interviews at all, they are just a phone call about a job, and they can be doing whatever they happen to be doing and take the call. Driving, children's soccer game, doctor's appointment, Happy Hour, walking in a wind tunnel, whatever. What they do not realize is this phone call is the path tow
Don't leave candidates hanging...
Leaving applicants hanging is bad for business. Virgin Media found that poor candidate experiences were costing the company as much as $5 million a year, and one survey showed that over 40% of candidates said that if they don’t hear back from a company they’ll never apply to it again. No response is still a loud message, and it’s not the one you want to be sending. Although it can be time-consuming for hiring managers to narrow down their list of preferred candidates, a drawn