Great Answers, Great Questions For Your Job Interview, 2nd Edition, 2nd Edition

CHAPTER11

The Telephone Interview

RECRUITERS, CORPORATE HR screeners, and hiring executives like telephone interviews because they save time and money. They are fact-finding missions. You can slice through more candidates and shorten your list of potential hires through targeted questions on the phone much faster and at far less cost than you can in person. For example, a recruiter can zip through a dozen candidates easily, taking the calls on a speaker phone and writing notes on a grid sheet that will allow a stack ranking of the candidates later. This can be much easier and less pressured than interviewing in person.

The phone interview allows ...