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[steviok85]

I had worked there three years previously and I was applying for a senior position.
I don't know. He was waffling on about their new curriculum, and asked what I remember from the curriculum I used for the three weeks I was there in 2007. A three-week curriculum?? Coupled with his maniacal questions, he sounded like he was frustrated with life from the outset.

[Sashadroogie]

[gaijinalways]

[Sashadroogie]

Have a sense of humour - quite refined, in fact. But it demands something more ...well, humorous than your offering. Just like puns - to impress me they actually need to be proper puns. Here's one from the punning master himself, Wilde: 'at any rate, education produces no effect', which expresses a sentiment very close to the heart of your matter.

Re the original topic of this thread. Make sure to state whether or not you can hear the interviewer over your phone line. They will probably be using Skype or some other cost-saving telephony system, and so the quality of connection may not always be there. It is distracting to hear echo or static in an already stressful conversation, so let the caller know that the line is bad. A good interviewer will check this with the candidate first anyway. But hey, you knew this already, didn't you?

[gaijinalways]

I guess my attempts at 'educating you' were over your head, so it didn't accomplish much.
Ah Sashadroogie, you seem to forget quickly that you're not the only one who has ever been in a supervisory position. How does that expression go 'power corrupts...'

[Sashadroogie]

The only accomplishment of your botched and insulting attempts to 'educate' me, aside from hijacking this thread, was to induce withering pity for you. What on earth, even with all your conceitedness, could have put the notion in your head that I would ever have anything to learn from the likes of you?

I am not the only one who has had a supervisory position, nor did I claim that. However, no other contributor to this thread has offered anything experience-based, or even useful, to the OP. Taking pot-shots at me seems to be the only goal. But you missed. Rather than try again, perhaps you could re-direct your energies and offer the OP something a little less trite than 'time is of the essence'.

[spiral78]

[Sashadroogie]

[gaijinalways]

Uh, I guess that is not the only contribution he missed. As I said, "I was actually interviewed on a cellphone, and a few times from cellphones."

I would even suggest that some people also keep notes and a copy of their resume nearby, as sometimes specific things you want to cover might com from that. Don't expect always that the interviewer has it or has read it.

How has the thread been hijacked? We're still talking about the same thing, telephone interviewing.

[holoholo girl]

I'm wondering the advantage of a tele interview as opposed to a Skype interview (video or not). I am having my 1st cell phone interview this week & think its strange to go this route instead of skype. Any thoughts?

[spiral78]

Not everyone has skype. Strange but true.

[johnslat]

Dear spiral78,


True - but i can't see why they don't since it's free and works quite well for my tutoring students in Slovenia.

Regards,
John

[spiral78]

In general, I agree...but I have to also say that my laptop picked up some viruses from Skype a couple of years back and I prefer MSN messenger today. But I use it daily - who needs a phone anymore?

[gaijinalways]

I use Yahoo messenger myself, and if I added the webcam and mike, it would be more or less the same for PC to PC.

[Perilla]