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Abu Bedo
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 Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 8:57 pm Post subject: Videoconferenve Interviews |
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How's the videoconference interview like?  |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:32 pm Post subject: |
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This is pretty vague...
For which institution? |
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Abu Bedo
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:34 pm Post subject: |
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| veiledsentiments wrote: |
This is pretty vague...
For which institution? |
I am asking in general, regardless the institution the person applying for.How's this videoconference interview conducted? Are you able to see the interviewers or just listen to them? stuff like this  |
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nomadykaty
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:04 pm Post subject: |
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| Videoconferencing usually means video-you will see each other. |
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veiledsentiments
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 1:52 pm Post subject: |
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Ah... so you meant:
What is a videoconference like?
(see what a difference the article - a or the - makes in the meaning of your question?)
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stoth1972
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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| Tough crowd in here, Abu Bedo, grammatically-speaking. |
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veiledsentiments
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I really wasn't trying to be mean, but it caused a complete misunderstanding of his question.  It is examples like this that I loved to be able to use in class.
Since I've never taken part in a videoconference, I will go away now... But, as I understand them, you can see each other. It would be pretty bad if they could see you, but you couldn't see them.  It would be more like an interrogation.
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NadiaK
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| Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 6:17 pm Post subject: |
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They can see and hear you. You can see and hear them. All the time.
(Assuming it is only a two-way videocon, that is.) |
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Abu Bedo
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| Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:50 pm Post subject: |
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| stoth1972 wrote: |
| Tough crowd in here, Abu Bedo, grammatically-speaking. |
Thank you for your response and your psychological support, actually people like you make life endurable on our sarcastic planet. Once again thank you  |
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Iamherebecause
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| Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:46 am Post subject: |
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| NadiaK wrote: |
They can see and hear you. You can see and hear them. All the time.
(Assuming it is only a two-way videocon, that is.) |
Actually it's not as simple as that. I had a video conference interview a few years ago and the UAE end (HCT) had lots of technical problems - there were a whole bunch of people, and some of them couldn't hear me properly, and I couldn't hear some of them when they asked questions. Also there was a time lag, so as soon as I started answering the bloke the other end would start repeating the question thinking I hadn't heard.
Advice? Look at the camera when you're talking, not at the person on the screen. Women should wear a longish skirt or trousers - I was wearing a below the knee skirt, but for the interview I was seated on a hard chair with no desk in front of me - kept worrying the interview board (all expats but anyway it was for a ME job) would see my knees! |
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Strolling minstrel
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| I am here because... I've got fabulous knees? |
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