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M. LoppManaging Humanshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7116-2_55

55. Nailing the Phone Screen

How to prepare for an important 30 minutes
Michael Lopp1  
(1)
Los Gatos, CA, USA
 

As we discovered in the last chapter, it’s almost a miracle when the phone rings and a recruiter wants to set up a phone screen. The fact is, someone somewhere in the organization has successfully mapped you to an open position. This is a really big deal because, in my experience, the chance that you’ll get this job has improved logarithmically. It’s not 50/50, but it’s vastly better than when you were a random résumé sitting on my desk.

As with the last chapter, I’m going to walk you through the precise mental process I go through as part of the phone screen; ...

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