In this video, I'm going to begin giving you answers and scripts for your job interview, phone screen
over the phone.
And this can be used for a phone screen with the recruiter or directly a hiring manager.
Now, usually this call is around 15 to 20 minutes long and usually you don't know it, but they probably
have back to back calls with candidates similar to you all applying for that one role.
And because you have a relatively short time for this call, try to keep each answer of yours under
90 seconds.
It's actually really easy because you know what the questions will be.
I'm going to be going over the exact questions.
But before I go over all the questions, I want to actually start with the very last question that you
typically might be asked.
But it's an extremely important question that most people under use.
This is the question, do you have any questions for us?
You're always going to get asked this most job candidates struggle because they don't know exactly what
they're supposed to be asking.
Should we ask about the growth rate of the company, the product, etc.?
OK, honestly, these are all things you can look up on Google.
So these are not the most fascinating questions, but there is a strategic way to ask this question.
And this is what I want you to do.
You have to use this exact question as an opportunity to prepare for your longer interview.
You need to extract some very important information like these questions that I'm going to read to you
now.
So, for example, they might ask you, do you have any questions?
And you would say, how long has this role been open?
Has it been six months, a year to it just open?
If it's been open for a while, why has this role been so hard to fill?
Are you easing on any of the requirements?
Are there some requirements that are extra important on which skills and attributes are the hiring managers
most focused on?
OK, if they tell you all they want X, Y is your skill and the candidates have been lacking in that.
Guess what?
You have a few days before the next round of interviews to brush up on those skills, read about at
Google and try some experiments, look up specific interview questions on those skills.
You can be way more prepared than the candidate you're competing against because they're flying blind.
Imagine there in the darkness trying to walk.
They don't know where to go.
Now you're trying to walk.
When it's light out, you know exactly where to go.
It's easy.
Now, that's exactly what this question creates for you.
And sometimes, which you can also ask is in your interviewing of candidates that you had sent the hiring
manager.
Let's say this is a conversation with a recruiter.
What has been missing so far that the hiring manager said the candidates need?
OK, so even if you're talking directly to the hiring manager, you can ask the candidates you've talked
to before.
What was it about them which caused you not to hire them and what were you hoping to see out of them?
So if this phone screen went really well and it should, because I'm going to give you answers for every
question, then when they ask you if you have questions for them, this becomes really meaningful because
you're already playing chess, right?
You're thinking moves ahead.
You're thinking, OK, I'm going to get the information to use at the next round of interviews.
That's perfect.
So now that you know how to answer this in the next video, let's go over how to answer the rest of
the phone screen questions.