From the course: Nail Your Cybersecurity Interview
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How to thrive in the telephone interview
From the course: Nail Your Cybersecurity Interview
How to thrive in the telephone interview
- [Instructor] One of the major benefits of a phone interview is they're not designed to rigorously scrutinize your skills and experience, though poor perception management and lack of pre-planning are fair game to disqualify candidates. Let's look at the formula to put the phone interview in the correct perspective, and prepare accordingly. The hiring manager has wadded through up to 100 resumes to get the count down to the top 10 resumes. In the information security space the phone interview is more times than not an additional filtering attempt to get the in-person interview pool down to about five candidates. Let's take a look at a few keys to help you make the cut. Interviewers who have not met you in person are depending on fewer data points from which to access you, with a predisposition to filter candidates out rather than in. So it's important that you score high on the few assessment points that matter…
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