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How to do a phone screen interview.

Part 1.

This cast answers these questions.

How do I conduct a phone screen interview?

How is a phone screen interview different than a regular

interview? How long should I spend phone screening a candidate? Do you want the answers

these questions and more? Well listen up.

Mark, we've talked often about, you know, before bringing in a candidate for a full day of interviews, and yes folks, we recommend a full day of interviews. Phone screening your

potential candidates to narrow the field even further is a great necessary

thing, right? It is necessary and there are two schools of thought here. One is

oh-h-hr does that which we'll talk about here and you may or may not choose to have

HR involved but the other piece is is that part of the reason that I started teaching this years ago was the number of managers who would do a resume calling from 100 resumes down to 20 and then think that they had to bring all those people in for a full day of interviews.

Logistically, immediately everybody listening goes, yeah, that isn't going to work.

And then so what they did is they'd have these 20 that were yeses,

and they would bring in one or two at a time.

And what managers tried to do was, what ended up happening over a period of years is managers started to try to

rank order those people that made it through the resume screening process,

bring them in first, and what that created was this situation where everybody who was interviewing the person

knew the earlier people are better and of course it benefits us to hire somebody faster

if we have an open rack. So it was a serial game. It was a race really and

that creates an enormous problem in recruiting that we know we're comparing

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