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How to do a phone screen interview.

Part 2.

This cast answers these questions.

How do I conduct a phone screen interview?

How is a phone screening interview different than a regular

interview? How long should I spend phone screening a candidate? Do you want to answer these questions

and more? Well, listen up. Now let's talk about using or not using HR to do phone screens.

In the past, I've been on the camp that no way is HR doing my phone screens right? I have to do them.

Right. If you gave me a range of possible managerial responses to the issue of HR phone screens, that's the one I love. But it's not a black and white.

It's not a black and white. Yeah, and that's something I learned from you, right?

We had walked through it many years ago and you convinced me that actually HR could play a role in doing the phone screens under certain conditions and

so let's talk about that a bit. Yeah good okay probably the single biggest determinant of what you are doing as you're listening to this regarding phone screens and HR's involvement is what was happening before you were there.

Okay, now if you're in a small company and there's no HR,

I recommend you not skip this.

Because if you're in about the 100 people range

before you get to 200, probably somebody's going to hire an HR person.

It may or may not be a good time, but you're going to end up having to work with them.

What's interesting is when I go to places where there have been managers for a while,

the company is growing and then

HR comes in. HR the first question they ask is hey how do you guys do this stuff and

when the HR person hasn't been there and the managers have the The manager's way of doing it is the standard of the

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