3. AUDIO

“Can you hear me now? Testing, testing, one-two-three.” This is exactly what you do not want to happen during your digital job interviews, or during any other meeting or conference you hold over the Web. It will make you look unprofessional and unprepared. To put it simply, this cannot happen.

The funny (but also not-so-funny) part is that during my research for this stage of the book, it was mind-boggling to me how hard it is for people to hear each other over the Web. One of the main problems is the lack of high-quality audio equipment. Basically, you are what you sound like. If you sound as though you have marbles in your mouth due to inferior audio equipment, this is going to reflect badly on you. You need to upgrade your audio equipment ...

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