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Did your Interviewer tell you about Video Conference Interview?
Are you looking for interview tips for freshers?
Looking for a job or want to change your current job?
Are you puzzled and extremely clueless about what is it and how to ace your video conference interview?
Well, you might be familiar with facing interviews live but not with video conference interviews. You might also know/have heard about video conference interviews in theory, but in practice, you might not have faced something like that, though it had been there for a very long time.
When it comes to taking the interview, a live interview is the best form of face to face interview. Video conference interview was performed rarely by a few companies. Still, nowadays, due to COVID- 19, recruiters or companies are finding video conference interviews to be the current best method of face to face interviews. It saves cost and time both to increase the efficiency of the company. The best part, for now, is that it also helps maintain social distancing.
So in this pandemic situation, if you are looking for a job, you need to ace the interview, which is getting much more difficult day by day though people are giving it from home.
Let me give a small description for a video interview in case you don’t know what I am talking about-
Video Conference Interview is a type of face to face interview taken from distant places through the use of technology, maybe from home. A video interview can be of two kinds- Video Conferencing & One-way video interview. Video Conferencing is live, and two or more people are present in that video (taken with the help of an online platform). In contrast, a One-way video interview is a pre-recorded video by the interviewee answering a set of questions given by the interviewer. Here I will be talking about Video Conference interviews.
You may also like to read our blog on Skype Interview.
Now the real question is- How to ace your video conference interview:
You should be properly dressed up from head to toe. You need to be in proper formal wear as you would have been wearing if it was a personal interview in an office. If you are giving an interview for the first time, check-in google for the perfect attire because there will be points for your dress-up. If you generally do makeup, do a little more for the interview.
Before starting the interview, arrange hard copies of all your documents (ex- CV, Id proof, results etc.) along with properly scanned copies of the documents on the computer/phone (whichever you are using). The interviewer might ask for them during the interview process. Keep a paper and a pen by your side with the documents because the interviewer might also tell you to write down something and send in a copy of it through the mail.
Don’t even try to bluff in front of the interviewer. An interviewer will always find out the truth because their job is to do that and identify their qualities that might be fruitful for the company. Be straightforward and speak the truth. Always say to the point answers. If you speak more, it’s more likely to get more difficult questions.
Don’t speak rubbish and negative things in the interview. Always put on a smile to give a positive gesture. It shows that you are confident enough and a happy person. Even if the interviewer is disturbed or annoyed by something, your smile can change their mood. You never know that you might also get selected because of your smile/ positive gesture.
During the interview process or at the end, you can always ask about your doubts. You need to ask if you are selected or not, the next steps after the interview, under whom you will be assigned etc. If it’s the last round of the recruitment process, you have the liberty to talk about the salary and negotiate, if necessary, your offer letter and from when will you be joining.
At the end of the interview, you need to thank yourself for taking your interview. After it finally ends, you need to send in a short and formal thank note through the mail. If more than one interviewer was in the video conference interview, compose different mails for everyone. This is a part of etiquette which comes at the last. Your thank-you note might also change the decision of the interviewer.
You can also read our article on Tips on Facing Interview.
Facing an Interview is not an easy task. That too is a video conference interview, which almost every company is taking in this pandemic situation. And even after this situation gets solved, many companies and recruiters will permanently follow this method because it saves time and money. But still, some companies may follow the old method of face to face interviews at the office itself because, as I told you, it is the best recruitment method.
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