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Originally posted by mullet81
So I'm taking this next year off until I go to grad school in the Fall of 2005...
I have a phone interview with an organization I absolutely love tomorrow. I've done my research on them and I've been preparing for the interview for the past 3 days - yet I'm still nervous as heck!
Does anyone have any phone interview tricks of the trade? What about potential questions... I think I am pretty prepared, but any advice would be helpful!
Oh - it is a phone interview - and theyre calling from NYC. I have been in contact with the woman I am interviewing with by email - is it ok to send an email thank you? I want to get it to them ASAP and mailing in from Indiana to New York would take a few days.
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About phone interviews, treat them like in-person interviews. In fact, dress up in a suit if you can so you don't sound like joe shmoe in your undies. If you want to have some talking points or things you might forget written out, you can too but make it quick points and don't write anything long out so it looks scripted.
About thank you notes, most places don't casre and if they do a simple email is best. A lot of places actually don't want to receive them and might even look badly on them. Actual notes, especially handwritten, are overkill. Truly they make the decision very quickly about where to go right after the interview anyway so send a short thank you email and call it a day.
-Rudey