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I hate phone interviews...
'I didn't even meet my potential employers'
Posted from bbc.co.uk
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Posted 7 y ago
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I don't like phone interviews; I have some hearing issues and it makes it hard to time your answers without talking over folks or having an odd silence. In a one on one you can gauge when the question is really done and it's clearly your turn to respond.
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SGT Jim Arnold
Sgt Wayne Wood - you do know there are 2 selectors you have "arm" to get it to mate up?
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SSgt Christopher Brose
I use Bose noise-cancelling earbuds. With my hearing loss, holding my phone to one ear just doesn't work very well -- plus I don't like the idea of holding a transmitter right next to my head that's capable of transmitting to distant cell towers. Anyway, with the earbuds feeding audio into both ears, I don't have any problems understanding normally-understandable people on the phone any more -- and if there's outside noise, I can eliminate a lot of it.
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SSgt Christopher Brose
Sgt Wayne Wood - The Bose connect to your phone with old fashioned wires. It was always the price that put me off. I was stuck in Denver's airport for a few hours once, and my gate was next to a Bose kiosk, so I decided to kill some time and check them out. Sticking a set of Bose headphones on my head and turning on the noise canceling was an epiphanal moment for me, as they turned the dull and sometimes not-so-dull roar of the airport crowd down to almost library levels. I found out that I could listen to music at much lower sound levels than what the ambient crowd noise was, and with great clarity! So I bought a set of the ear buds for $250.
I thought $250 was a lot of money for a set of ear buds (it is), but from that moment forward I thought of them as an investment in myself. As an investment in myself, my hearing and my health and my sanity, $250 was some of the best money I ever spent. I travel internationally 1-2 times a year, and I instantly regretted waiting so long to buy a set. I was getting ready to finish the last leg of a trip to Ukraine, and I wished I'd had them for the whole trip.
I let my friend try them. My friend had this habit of putting his phone on speaker and then holding it in front of his face to carry on a conversation. I didn't know this until I was visiting him and saw him take a call from someone. (It explained why phone call with him always sounded a little strange.) I told him, "Try these," plugged them into his phone, and he stuck the buds in his ears. "Oh wow, I can hear you right in my ears." He was amazed at the clarity. Then I turned on the noise canceling. "Now you're inside my head!"
I strongly recommend that you try them out the next time you're at a major airport. I don't work for Bose and I get nothing out of this, I just think they're amazing and they changed my life for the better. If you have any problems at all with understanding people during phone calls, $250 is a worthy price to pay for the ability to communicate, plus reduced noise and stress levels when traveling, if you can afford it.
CSM Richard StCyr
I thought $250 was a lot of money for a set of ear buds (it is), but from that moment forward I thought of them as an investment in myself. As an investment in myself, my hearing and my health and my sanity, $250 was some of the best money I ever spent. I travel internationally 1-2 times a year, and I instantly regretted waiting so long to buy a set. I was getting ready to finish the last leg of a trip to Ukraine, and I wished I'd had them for the whole trip.
I let my friend try them. My friend had this habit of putting his phone on speaker and then holding it in front of his face to carry on a conversation. I didn't know this until I was visiting him and saw him take a call from someone. (It explained why phone call with him always sounded a little strange.) I told him, "Try these," plugged them into his phone, and he stuck the buds in his ears. "Oh wow, I can hear you right in my ears." He was amazed at the clarity. Then I turned on the noise canceling. "Now you're inside my head!"
I strongly recommend that you try them out the next time you're at a major airport. I don't work for Bose and I get nothing out of this, I just think they're amazing and they changed my life for the better. If you have any problems at all with understanding people during phone calls, $250 is a worthy price to pay for the ability to communicate, plus reduced noise and stress levels when traveling, if you can afford it.
CSM Richard StCyr
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Sgt Wayne Wood
@sgt jim arnold mine has a little box... box talks to phone, box talks to HAs
Been through the directions a dozen times... never had trouble with other Bluetooth gadgets, just the HAs
Been through the directions a dozen times... never had trouble with other Bluetooth gadgets, just the HAs
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HR is one of the worst departments in most companies. This non stop move to "self service" applications for employees and now more AI and other algorithm based resume and interview tools.
The "A" in AI is artificial, it isn't real in the sense that it can replace actual human interaction. Now what people are doing is getting coaching on what these AI programs and algorithms look for in resumes so there is a new way to work around the AI.
The bottom line is meeting with candidates, talking with them, asking them behavioral related questions (vs. only experiential ones) will help you hire better. With a tightening job market, you need skilled managers that know what type of people you need and how to find them, recruit them and hire them, then retain them (another challenge).
Knowing someone or having someone referred to you is always a leg up over the resume/application process too. Some of this still goes back to "who you know".
The "A" in AI is artificial, it isn't real in the sense that it can replace actual human interaction. Now what people are doing is getting coaching on what these AI programs and algorithms look for in resumes so there is a new way to work around the AI.
The bottom line is meeting with candidates, talking with them, asking them behavioral related questions (vs. only experiential ones) will help you hire better. With a tightening job market, you need skilled managers that know what type of people you need and how to find them, recruit them and hire them, then retain them (another challenge).
Knowing someone or having someone referred to you is always a leg up over the resume/application process too. Some of this still goes back to "who you know".
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On your last comment, I think that is the most important variable in obtaining a job.
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