There's some renovation and construction going on in my town home and I need a quiet place to have my phone interview tomorrow. I was thinking one of those private rooms in a library, but there might be too much of an echo, plus the call quality might be sporadic. Any suggestions?

6/24/2008 1:24:03 PM

the last phone interview i had, was the initial one for my current job

and i had it mid mountain on the front side of Vail during a ski trip

6/24/2008 1:32:32 PM

Where ever you have the interview, make sure you have a good signal....

6/24/2008 1:33:38 PM

at home, at my desk, in front of my comp in case I needed to look up something on the fly or e-mail them something they may need, etc.

6/24/2008 1:41:05 PM

I had one interview during working hours at my old job. I basically left the building and walked around outside on my cell phone for half an hour.

I had another phone interview in the Royal Bean coffee shop.

I had a phone interview for my co-op that literally lasted for five minutes. It happened in EB2 during a 15 minute break between classes.

My worst phone interview occurred at my apartment. We had a land line, and I decided to use that for some reason instead of my cell phone. Anyway, my cell phone went off during the interview, and I had forgotten to put it on silent. It was really obnoxious.

6/24/2008 1:42:16 PM

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"at home, at my desk, in front of my comp in case I needed to look up something on the fly or e-mail them something they may need, etc."

I second this. You need to be somewhere you know has signal, and have access either to your computer, or have print outs of your resume and everything they may have a copy of. Since your place is too loud, you may want to think about asking a friend if you can use their apartment.

The library route might work, but I would verify signal before hand.

6/24/2008 1:48:15 PM

Broughton 5th floor computer lab. Hardly anyone goes up there (the machines are all Unix) and I had good reception while I was there.

6/24/2008 1:55:06 PM

I did not want to be anywhere near a computer for my last one. I had everything laid out on my counter and did it in the kitchen standing up and walking around. If you are trying to read something or use a computer you will likeley sound detached to your interviewer.

6/24/2008 2:14:26 PM

career center can hook you up with a quiet room to do your interview in if you schedule it ahead of time

6/24/2008 6:28:55 PM

I tried to bump the old thread but no go.

As far as thank you letters/notes are concerned I will definitely send one after the face to face interview. I had what they call a "phone screen" to see if they want to have an in person interview with you. Does this warrant a thank you letter? Its not really the "interview" plus my face to face is coming up shortly. I'm calling the head of HR today to let her know my schedule for the interview. I was just planning to thank her over the phone. Thoughts? Thanks.

[Edited on June 27, 2008 at 8:06 AM. Reason : ..]

6/27/2008 8:04:56 AM

i was walking around wal mart during the phone interview for my last job

6/27/2008 8:19:19 AM

^^I think it depends on if you've scheduled another meeting. Usually when I had my phone interviews, they always scheduled a face-to-face interview right afterward. When they did that, I felt like the phone interview acted as a precursor, the initial part to the whole interview. The thank-you note is for the interview in it's entirety, not for just a single part.

You could probably send a thank-you note if you don't schedule a time for a face-to-face during the phone interview, although the only time that's ever happened to me I didn't hear back from that division of the company (I later got a job there in a different area). Sending a thank-you note changed nothing in that case.

6/27/2008 9:06:56 AM

Looked through the old threads and couldn't bump any of those. But if you send a thank you letter electronically, what do you title the email. "Thank you letter" doesn't seem very tactful to me. Maybe "Name, interview date" Who knows? Thanks

7/2/2008 8:23:06 AM

sitting on the floor in my living room w/ a million papers of notes spread out and the dog locked in her crate in the other room. they didn't ask a single question i had written notes for

7/2/2008 9:55:46 AM

sitting on the can, for some reason, that's when my head is the clearest.

7/2/2008 12:25:26 PM

nvm, I'm just putting too much thought into this.

7/2/2008 1:35:12 PM

i prefer phone interviews to be at home at my desk, but i've done them while driving on the way to work or just step outside of the office for a couple minutes.

just put something like "interview follow up" or something similar for the subject in your email thank you letter.

7/2/2008 5:40:23 PM

if you have the time I don't think I would send a Thank You electronically - good ole snail mail, but you might want to check out some career websites on this - good luck with everything! just relax and be yourself - my best interview, I really thought I had no chance of getting the job, so I just was not nervous - usually not the case! I tried to "have fun" and use it for an "interview exercise/practice", really making it more enjoyable and I think being relaxed came over as confident - long story short I got the job. I now remember this whenever I have to interview for new hires.

7/3/2008 1:30:10 AM

I had mine on a sat phone in a somewhat "busy" area of the middle east.




when I actually started working here, they were like, you were the most original interview we ever had.

why you ask? because I started the convo with "if you hear some explosions or loud noises and I hang up, don't worry, its just either mortars or gunfire and I'll call you back once things get wrapped up".

7/3/2008 2:16:49 AM

^^ thanks for the advice. Its basically what I tried to do. I got the job.

7/3/2008 9:59:55 AM

one of the first things to do in a phone interview is to get a return number in the event you get disconnected. Also if you ask for it, you look responsible.

7/3/2008 12:42:10 PM