Telephone interview?
Dec 6th 2004 | 5:38 am
#31
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Re: Telephone interview?
Hi Donna and Malc,
Just want to say waiting....waiting...waiting. Come on you pair put us out of our misery, how did it go?
Sarah
Just want to say waiting....waiting...waiting. Come on you pair put us out of our misery, how did it go?
Sarah
Dec 6th 2004 | 5:44 am
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Re: Telephone interview?
Originally Posted by madsad
Hi Guys,
Hubby has been offered a job,doing what hes doing at the moment.
On Wednesday morning i ran down the stairs to answer the phone at 6.30am, an ozzie guy asking to speak to my hubby,olympics back up the stairs to wake hubby
This guy who phoned was the owner of a company in Brisbane & wants my hubby to come & work for him(serious stuff!)
Anyways to cut a long story short hubby was sent a quiz on his profession(email) returned it yesterday & a telephone interview has been set up for 7am on Monday morning :scared:
Hubby is absolutely kackin himself he,s been with the same company since he left school (17yrs) & having an interview after all this time has got him worried,i thought having a phone interview would have made things easier but he says he would prefer face to face,not usually stuck for words my hubby so even im surprised!
Has anyone else had to do a telephone interview? how did it go? hubby was told it would take about 45mins-1hr
seems a long time,what do you folk think?
Any reassurance for hubby would be a great help.
Donna.
Hubby has been offered a job,doing what hes doing at the moment.
On Wednesday morning i ran down the stairs to answer the phone at 6.30am, an ozzie guy asking to speak to my hubby,olympics back up the stairs to wake hubby
This guy who phoned was the owner of a company in Brisbane & wants my hubby to come & work for him(serious stuff!)
Anyways to cut a long story short hubby was sent a quiz on his profession(email) returned it yesterday & a telephone interview has been set up for 7am on Monday morning :scared:
Hubby is absolutely kackin himself
he,s been with the same company since he left school (17yrs) & having an interview after all this time has got him worried,i thought having a phone interview would have made things easier but he says he would prefer face to face,not usually stuck for words my hubby so even im surprised!Has anyone else had to do a telephone interview? how did it go? hubby was told it would take about 45mins-1hr
seems a long time,what do you folk think?Any reassurance for hubby would be a great help.
Donna.
My interview was on a Monday morning at 7am, and I was kackin myself too. I got up at 6am, and spent the next hour smoking and drinking strong coffee - trying to avoid the temptation of a JD.
Interview ended up more like a general chat, and he told me I had the job at the end of the interview. My only advice is to have some questions to fill in any 'silences' because you have not got body language to show that you are thinking etc.
Just realised that you have probably had your interview - hope it went well!
Hope that the above might put other peoples mind at rest, it is much easier than sitting in front of a scary panel of interviewers - and you don't even have to get tarted up - I had my interview in my dressing gown, hair all over the place, no makeup - looking rather scary myself!
Cas
Dec 6th 2004 | 5:58 am
#33
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Re: Telephone interview?
hope everything went well sending karma your way x
Dec 6th 2004 | 6:05 am
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Re: Telephone interview?
Well folks the interview kicked off at 6.10am this morning and finished at 6.50, it went very very well!! and fingers crossed after answering another couple of questions by e mail today we will hear some news tonight.
On a lighter note, during the interview my prospective employer posed the following question "with you being new in Australia some of our clients may try & take the rise out off you" my answer was thus " well Mr xxxx i dont think that will bother me at all, having said that if it does there is nothing better at bringing a conversation to an abrupt halt than a Scotsman telling you to ***** Off" he went into an absolute kink of laughter as did his wife and the other guy conducting the interview!! big sigh of relief from me!!
In my humble opinion it went really well.
To close the interview the guy says to me, well Malcolm thankyou for getting up so early to talk to me, he then says i would imagine it's very cold in Scotland this morning cue moi "well i'm not saying it's cold, but i've just looked out the window and there is an eskimo standing with a board which says it's bloody freezing out here!!" cue another kink of laughter, so if nowt else at least i made them laugh!!.
Once we have a final decision i will let u all know.
On a lighter note, during the interview my prospective employer posed the following question "with you being new in Australia some of our clients may try & take the rise out off you" my answer was thus " well Mr xxxx i dont think that will bother me at all, having said that if it does there is nothing better at bringing a conversation to an abrupt halt than a Scotsman telling you to ***** Off" he went into an absolute kink of laughter as did his wife and the other guy conducting the interview!! big sigh of relief from me!!
In my humble opinion it went really well.
To close the interview the guy says to me, well Malcolm thankyou for getting up so early to talk to me, he then says i would imagine it's very cold in Scotland this morning cue moi "well i'm not saying it's cold, but i've just looked out the window and there is an eskimo standing with a board which says it's bloody freezing out here!!" cue another kink of laughter, so if nowt else at least i made them laugh!!.
Once we have a final decision i will let u all know.
Dec 6th 2004 | 6:14 am
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Re: Telephone interview?
Hi Donna and Malc,
Cheers for the update, it sounds like it went really well!!
Love your humour! Good onya Madsads!!
Fingers crossed for tonight!! Look forward to hearing youve got it!
Cheeky
xx
Cheers for the update, it sounds like it went really well!!
Love your humour!
Good onya Madsads!!Fingers crossed for tonight!! Look forward to hearing youve got it!
Cheeky
xx
Dec 6th 2004 | 7:04 am
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Re: Telephone interview?
Originally Posted by madsad
Once we have a final decision i will let u all know.
Will be checking regularly to see your update!!!!
Take care
D D
Dec 6th 2004 | 7:26 am
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Re: Telephone interview?
Originally Posted by madsad
Well folks the interview kicked off at 6.10am this morning and finished at 6.50, it went very very well!! and fingers crossed after answering another couple of questions by e mail today we will hear some news tonight.
On a lighter note, during the interview my prospective employer posed the following question "with you being new in Australia some of our clients may try & take the rise out off you" my answer was thus " well Mr xxxx i dont think that will bother me at all, having said that if it does there is nothing better at bringing a conversation to an abrupt halt than a Scotsman telling you to ***** Off" he went into an absolute kink of laughter as did his wife and the other guy conducting the interview!! big sigh of relief from me!!
In my humble opinion it went really well.
To close the interview the guy says to me, well Malcolm thankyou for getting up so early to talk to me, he then says i would imagine it's very cold in Scotland this morning cue moi "well i'm not saying it's cold, but i've just looked out the window and there is an eskimo standing with a board which says it's bloody freezing out here!!" cue another kink of laughter, so if nowt else at least i made them laugh!!.
Once we have a final decision i will let u all know.
On a lighter note, during the interview my prospective employer posed the following question "with you being new in Australia some of our clients may try & take the rise out off you" my answer was thus " well Mr xxxx i dont think that will bother me at all, having said that if it does there is nothing better at bringing a conversation to an abrupt halt than a Scotsman telling you to ***** Off" he went into an absolute kink of laughter as did his wife and the other guy conducting the interview!! big sigh of relief from me!!
In my humble opinion it went really well.
To close the interview the guy says to me, well Malcolm thankyou for getting up so early to talk to me, he then says i would imagine it's very cold in Scotland this morning cue moi "well i'm not saying it's cold, but i've just looked out the window and there is an eskimo standing with a board which says it's bloody freezing out here!!" cue another kink of laughter, so if nowt else at least i made them laugh!!.
Once we have a final decision i will let u all know.
well done mate, sounds like you've bagged it!
if not they have had a glimpse of the scottish humour!
