The Phone Interview

I was reading this article –Fixing These Mistakes Tripled My Phone Interview Success Rate woman ready for a phone interview– thought it was a great article and exactly what I tell my students.  Dress up, good posture counts, and be prepared – these are all great ideas for the phone interview.  I would like to add one more thing to the phone interview “do/don’t” concept.

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A computer reads your resume

Computer screen with notice to use KeywordsI often help people with their resume and find that the person I am helping has no clue that a computer software package reads their resume.  They lack the keywords on their resume to match the job description to make it beyond the computer software scan and into a human’s hands/in-box.  No keywords – your resume is “virtually shredded.”

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