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Holly Mann, Author of Work from Home EBook, Grants First Audio Interview

Chiang Mai, Thailand (PRWEB) August 6, 2007

Holly Mann became a single mom at age 22 in January of 2005. She wanted to be a work at home mom more than anything because the thought of a daycare center raising her son sent chills through her body. To cut expenses, she sold everything she had and moved to Chaing Mai, Thailand, where the cost of living is only a fraction of what it takes to live in the United States. Upon arrival, Holly feverishly wrote an eBook called, “Honest Riches,” a beginner’s guide to making money online with Internet marketing. Now, having sold almost 20,000 copies, she has given the first Holly Mann audio interview.

Moving to Thailand would be a radical solution to money problems for most Americans, but it was a natural move for Holly Mann because she had lived in Thailand when she was in High School on a student exchange program with the Rotary Club. Holly remembered the land was beautiful, the people friendly, and the food delicious. Though Holly and her son, Joshua, were often surrounded by poverty, this made them more grateful for even small things. The simple life of the Thai people seemed to bring out the best in them. In fact, Holly quotes on the cover of her eBook, “I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man with no feet.”

In Thailand, children start school very young. Josh is in school about 4 hours a day, so Holly leverages this short block of time to work online creating websites that feature affiliate marketing strategies where she creates content, then links to another website to make a final sale. A third party tracking system documents that the traffic came from Holly’s site and gives her credit for the sale. The beauty of this is that she can work in the American market while living abroad through the power of the Internet. Holly Mann has been bringing in between $ 10,000 to $ 12,000 a month for two years. She credit’s this to eBook royalties and affiliate marketing.

The eBook, “Honest Riches 2,” has been completely revised and now has 95 pages. After the purchase, her customers get ongoing support through a online forum now with thousands of entries. One can always get live help because there are other students of Holly online 24 hours a day. Holly is usually on the live forum daily as well. She believes in helping people, not merely making a sale.

Holly is making quite a name for herself. If one does a broad search on Google for the keywords, “holly mann,” one will find over two million sites with a match. She even beats the European movie star with the name, Holly Mann. Of all those websites, there is only one which showcases an audio interview. The presentation is in two parts: 31 minutes are focused on her story and 51 minutes feature her Internet marketing ideas. Her engaging biography and over 50 exotic photographs are available at www.HollyMannInternetMarketing.com.

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Interview: William Boyd Talks to Stuart Jeffries About Writing for Film

When William Boyd adapted Scoop, Evelyn Waugh’s great comic novel, he left out one of its best jokes. The book’s innocent hero, William Boot, writes Lush Places, the Daily Beast’s nature column. But his copy is mangled by his minx of a sister. Whenever the word “badger” appears, Priscilla replaces it with “great crested grebe” before sending off the article, making the thing absurd and provoking derisive letters. “A major in Wales,” wrote Waugh, “challenged him categorically to produce a single authenticated case of a great crested grebe attacking young rabbits.”

Boyd couldn’t make Waugh’s joke work on film. Succinct on paper, it would have been a celluloid clunker, requiring a close up of Boot’s badger article held long enough to get the gist of the piece. Then a shot of Priscilla crossing out “badger” and writing “great crested grebe”. Then a shot of the printed version about the newly libeled bird. No matter – when Scoop was broadcast there was a furor. How could Boyd have been so crass as to leave the joke out?

That reaction still piques Boyd as we sit in his Chelsea living room filled with beautiful books, many his own, not one paperback, even though the film was screened 19 years ago. “To judge a film by the book it’s based on is very harsh,” he says. “Nobody goes to see Verdi’s Falstaff and goes home and reads The Merry Wives of Windsor. Nobody berates Verdi for leaving out so much of the play. And that should apply to film as well. When you adapt a book for film, you lose 60 or 70% of it.”

But there is a more fundamental problem with screen adaptations that Boyd has run into repeatedly in a quarter of a century of writing screenplays. All the playful storytelling devices that the novelist can deploy are obliterated in film. “You’re hampered by the medium,” says Boyd. “Take the adaptation of my first novel, A Good Man in Africa. The novel is told entirely from the point of view of the central character. The film doesn’t reproduce that exclusive, subjective point of view, because you’re shooting it from an objective point of view, the camera lens, even if you have – as we did – a voiceover.”

William Boyd is one of the few leading British novelists to be professionally bothered about these issues. Of the generation that spawned Amis, Barnes, McEwan and Ishiguro (he was selected in 1983 as one of Granta’s 20 best young British novelists), Boyd, 53, is the only one to have another career writing screenplays. Since his first novel appeared in 1981 while he was a junior English don at Oxford, he has written eight more novels and two short story collections, but also adapted his own books, including Stars and Bars and Armadillo, those of others (including Mario Vargas Llosa’s Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter), original screenplays (he has a low-budget thriller in his drawer) and purported historical incidents. He is currently working with director Fred Schepisi on a Vietnam film called Last Man, about Australian special forces troops stuck behind enemy lines.

Boyd once mused whether choosing to write screenplays rather than journalism had made him less fashionable than his peers. If literary fashion was measured by gongs – which it isn’t – Boyd would be in vogue, having received a CBE last year. Of screenwriting, he says: “It’s a totally different beast from writing a novel. The cinema is a world of constraints and parameters and barriers, while the world of writing a novel is freedom.”

It sounds a royal pain. Why do it? “Partly because when you finish a novel the tank is empty and you need to fill it up again. Also I use my film writing as a way of getting out of the house and meeting people. I’ve got more friends who are actors, producers and directors than writers.”

Are any novels unfilmable? “Yes. Ulysses is pretty unfilmable, but that hasn’t stopped people trying. Lolita is unfilmable but has been filmed twice. Nabokov wrote a screenplay for it that Kubrick threw out.” Nevertheless, Boyd quotes approvingly Nabokov’s dictum that films should be “vivacious variants” of the original.

There is an abject history of unrealized screenplays that would have yielded better films than the schlock that gets made. Boyd has a little library of the ones he loves upstairs. Among them is Harold Pinter’s unfilmed screenplay of the biggest novel ever written, Proust’s A La Recherche du Temps Perdu. He adores, too, Shane Black’s script for the Bruce Willis picture, The Last Boy Scout – “a much better script than the film”. Boyd also mentions the thwarted adaptation of a book by Pinter’s wife, the historian Antonia Fraser, that he wrote for Universal in the late 90s. “It’s based on her wonderful book about the Gunpowder Plot. I wrote the script, we had a director attached, it was moving forward and then there was one of those nights of the long knives at Universal Studios. Everybody got fired, and with them went their projects. “It was probably a symbolic end of an era because I don’t think you would get through the door for a project about the Gunpowder Plot today.” Why not? “Because it’s 1605, men in tights and nobody’s heard of it.”

Last year the BBC asked him to write a screenplay to dramatize the love triangle of Shakespeare’s sonnets – the dark lady, the fair youth and the Bard who fancied them both. The script was thus to be a free adaptation of Shakespeare’s life, involving all the creative license that he brought to adapting novels, and likely to provoke more literary outrage. Boyd readily agreed to make the drama none the less, calling it A Waste of Shame (after sonnet 129 “Th’expense of spirit in a waste of shame / Is lust in action”), and identifying the fair youth as William Herbert, the hotsy-totsy young Earl of Pembroke, and the dark lady as a Southwark strumpet called Lucie. Where Tom Stoppard’s script for Shakespeare in Love had the Bard as a randy hetero, Boyd’s more plausible account has him as a troubled bisexual who fails to consummate his lust for the fair youth but contracts the pox from the dark lady, and has to take a mercury bath cure as a result. “The circumstantial evidence seemed to me to be overwhelming and, if you’re a writer of fiction, all you need is circumstantial evidence. If you’re a scholar or historian you need more, but I can go where scholars and historians would not dare to tread.”

But the identities of the dark lady and the fair youth have been academically incendiary matters ever since 1889. In that year, in Tite Street, just around the corner from Boyd’s Chelsea home, Oscar Wilde wrote a short story called The Portrait of Mr WH that contended the fair youth to whom Shakespeare was homoerotically drawn was an actor called Willie Hews. Others later argued the youth was the Earl of Southampton, who may have been hotsy-totsy, but was not so young as the Earl of Pembroke. Boyd says this is unlikely: “Anthony Burgess wrote a fantastic novel about this called Nothing Like the Sun, but he identifies Southampton as the young man in the sonnets and it caused him terrible problems narratively because everything that happens to him has to happen earlier. So Shakespeare is a very young man and it just doesn’t ring true. He can’t even deal with the writing of Hamlet because everything is happening in the 1580s, or the 1570s even. The bitterness and world-weariness and sagacity of the sonnets seem to me to indicate someone who has lived a lot, not somebody who is 22.”

Who was the dark lady? AL Rowse once wrote: “I have found her!” and identified the woman as an aristocrat called Emilia Lanier, but Boyd finds this implausible. He was convinced by the arguments of Katherine Duncan-Jones, historical adviser on his BBC film, that it was impossible for a man like Shakespeare to have the kind of sexual relationship described in the sonnets with an aristocrat. “The class gulf was too wide. But he was a successful man a long way from his estranged wife in Stratford. So it’s entirely feasible that he saw prostitutes. So I thought let’s make her a North African, Moorish, francophone hooker.”

Even Duncan-Jones won’t go that far. “She argues that the dark lady is a stereotype, not a real person, but there is no way when you are writing for fiction that you can have a stereotype.” The nature of the medium, then, impelled Boyd to the creative license he would never have contemplated as an academic.

On Monday, Boyd will defend the program at the Royal Society of Literature. Isn’t he afraid of getting lynched by seething Shakespeareans? “We’ll see. You open a can of worms when you write about this because there are so many cranky theories out there.” Including your own? For the first and last time during the interview, Boyd gets donnish: “I can be audacious, but everything I suggest is backed up by textual evidence.” Boyd and the Bard, a Royal Society of Literature discussion, is on Monday. Details at www.rslit.org. His second world war novel, Restless, will be published by Bloomsbury in September

Well adapted: Boyd’s top 5

Macbeth (director Roman Polanski)

“The best film ever made of a Shakespeare play. Raw, sexy, brutal”

Dangerous Liaisons (Stephen Frears)

“A French epistolary novel turned play turned film. Mesmerising, dark, complex”

The Charge of the Light

Brigade (Tony Richardson)

“Inspired by Tennyson’s poem. The great unsung epic of British cinema”

A Streetcar Named Desire (Elia Kazan)

“A classic of 20th century theatre becomes an iconic film. Brando was never better”

Death in Venice (Luchino Visconti)

“Hypnotically beautiful, lyrical, unforgettable”

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Four Common Sense Tips For The Telephone Interview

Here’s a phone interview tip worth considering: smile. A smile is a magic thing, and in addition to being seen in person it can be felt from a distance. When doing a phone interview, don’t think that because the person on the other end of the phone can’t see you that smiling and other positive body gestures are not important. The best interview tip that anyone was ever given was to smile and make positive gestures. In fact, many people talk with their hands. If you do, consider a telephone head set to free your hands up.

Another tip that will be worth its weight in gold is to have a good quality telephone. It may seem silly to even mention it, but the better quality phone you use, the better your voice will sound. Years ago everyone rented his or her telephones from the local utility phone company. These days people own their own phones, and while many people use good quality phones, many use the ten and fifteen-dollar phones they’ve found in the local dollar store or discount mart. Those phones are fine for talking to your spouse perhaps, but for business use make a good business impression, and use a good phone. Add this tip to the mix as well: use a landline with a cord, and not a cell phone or cordless phone. Dead batteries, crackling sounds, bad cell sites, and weather interference can make you sound bad at the other end, and you may not even know it. When doing your phone interview you want to be clear and make a good impression. Take this tip to heart and use a good quality landline.

I once received a tip from a headhunter who specialized in finding people jobs. While it seemed like common sense, I realized that it was a tip of value, and recommend it to people to this day. Do your homework on the company before your phone interview. Do a search on the Internet using Yahoo, Google, MSN, Dogpile or any of the major search engines. Look them up in an online database like Dun and Bradstreet or InfoUSA. If you don’t have easy access to these online tools, go to your local library and tell the reference librarian what you are doing. He or she will be glad to provide you with information sources that will help you seem knowledgeable when having your phone interview.

The last tip to keep in mind is to be yourself, and be comfortable. One of the best ways to be yourself, and maintain comfort during your phone interview is to practice the interview. Ask a friend to play the part of the boss. Call your friend on the phone and go through a mock interview, answering all of the questions that you think the interviewer is likely to ask. Mock trials help lawyers, and rehearsals help musicians. It only makes sense that a practice interview will help an interviewer. While it may seem silly, this is a phone interview tip you should take to heart.

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Teaching Jobs Abroad Recruitment Fair Interview Etiquette

You will be surprised at the number of teaching job interviews you will be invited to attend at an international recruitment job fair. You may be worried because you have sent out your resume to all the recruiters on the job fair organizer’s list of schools that have vacancies in your teaching area and yet you have received no responses, or only automated responses.

Trust me, this is not a problem!

You will probably find that when you arrive for the orientation session and check your mailbox that you have received a number of interview invitations from those very same recruiters that have not sent you a personal response to your initial attempts to make contact.

One colleague of mine said she received interview invitations from 26 schools at the last job fair she attended. Another reported that she’d spent hours sending out her resume to different international school recruiters and received a very disappointing response pre-job fair; however she also received an astounding number of interview requests at the job fair.

So, what does this mean to you? You will need to be prepared with a mechanism to quickly and easily turn down interview requests because the chances are you will be invited to interview with schools that you have no interest in teaching for.

One way to prepare for this contingency is to prepare ‘thanks but no thanks’ notes ahead of the job fair. You can then fill in the blanks on the refusal letter and either pass it on to the recruiters at the sign up session on the first morning of the fair, put it in the recruiter’s mailbox, or slip it under the door of their hotel room.

When you are preparing your application packs to take with you to the teaching job fair you simply prepare and print some copies of your refusal letter and take them with you to the fair.

A major problem with this plan occurs if you have not prepared enough of the notes, as my colleague experienced when she received interview invitations from 26 schools, of which she was only interested in two! What do you do then? You will have to resort to hand-written notes.

Another option is to take along a pad of Post-It notes. Post-It notes can be stuck to hotel room doors or on to the recruiter’s table at the sign-up session. A bonus to using this method is that your note will not be accidentally mixed in among other papers because it is both sticky and colourful.

Before you turn down interview requests you need to consider how much practice you have had recently with job interviews. Do you feel confident? Going to job interviews with schools you are not very interested in teaching for will give you an opportunity to practise rusty interview technique in preparation for the schools you really are interested in. Additionally, through interviewing with these recruiters you may discover that an international school you were not very interested in is actually the perfect place for you to move to.

Kelly has been teaching abroad for 12 years now, and has refined her job fair strategies so that she always lands a high-paying, desirable teaching job abroad. Get your hands on her sure-fire techniques and land your own international school teaching job today!

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Advice on Your College Admissions Interview

Much of the college admissions process is simple words and numbers. Test scores. Transcripts. Essays. Even the most eloquent high school students struggle with the task of making their personality shine through the thick stacks of paper. That’s why many colleges invite students for interviews. The college interview is your chance to distinguish yourself. The interview may occur during your campus visit with a college admissions officer. If you can’t make it to the campus then an interview may be conducted over the phone, or with alumni in your town. Interviews may seem intimidating, but there is nothing to fear. This is your chance to shine.

While you will be asked many questions you are not being interrogated, and you are not on trial. In fact, you may learn much about the college from your interview. You aren’t just selling yourself to the school. You’re also trying to decide if this is a school that fits you. If there are any questions about coursework, campus life or anything else now is the time to ask. Don’t leave the interview with any ambiguity or questions unasked about the school.

That said, you still want to make a strong impression. Be professional. Dress sharp. Be on time. Be courteous. Make eye contact with the interviewer. Smile. Most importantly: Arrive prepared. This includes everything from getting plenty of sleep the night before to anticipating questions. If you haven’t been interviewed before have family members or teachers practice. Before the interview review your thoughts on the school. What attracts you to the college? What are your goals? What are your accomplishments?

Explaining your motivations in an interview is an entirely different task compared to making a list on an application. The interview is just another part of the college admissions process. Like your application, essay and letter of recommendation preparedness is the key. Schedule your interview in advance. Practice asking and answering questions. Dress to impress.

The interview can help you stand out to a school, but it can also help you in other ways. Vocalizing your thoughts about your college search will help you realize what you are truly looking for in a school.

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Residency Interview Questions

Before medical students become professional doctors, they invest some major years of their life in getting the right sets of skills and education. In the three to seven long years of medical graduation, the medical students are expected to join some residency program, probably during the third or fourth year of the medical schooling. These residency programs are accredited by Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and aims to impart training to the medical students for the purpose of providing direct patient care. The entire process of selecting, applying and getting approval for the residency training program demands planning and preparation. For understanding the intricacies of the steps of choosing the right program in the right training institute, you should contact your teachers and college placement cell.

Residency Interview Questions and Answers

This article majorly focuses on the residency interview questions that will help you in the following ways:
These questions solve your queries about the program procedure and other facets linked to the residency program.
They test your aptitude in a manner such that you fit into their program.
You become aware of the stability, support system and campus life of the medical school as you can inquire about them to the interview panel.
The main objective of the residency interview lies in understanding the priorities of the students and making the student aware about the policies, rules and expectations of the medical school management.

Why do You Wish to Become a Surgeon/Doctor?
Well, this is the most basic residency interview question and perhaps the most important one. While the conventional answers like “want to serve the people”, “improve America’s health system”, etc. are appreciated, it is more advantageous to tell some of your personal experiences that have motivated you to become a surgeon! Remember, the original you’re, the better it would be! And be honest, you’ll get rewarded for being clear and concise.

Tell us About Yourself and Your Family?
A very simple and yet challenging question that can convey a lot about your dreams, aspirations and academics. So, be prepared for this question. Give some time to ponder over yourself, know your strengths and weaknesses and chalk out an answer that includes all elements of your personality. This doesn’t mean that you’ve to exaggerate. Be yourself as that will naturally boost your confidence. Talk about your achievements and your contributions to any team projects and team efforts. Mention some challenging cases that you had handled along with your team.

What are You Looking for in the Training Program(s) Offered by the Institute?
This is the time to convey your realistic expectations about the training program to the interviewers. You can talk about your interest areas, in which you have done research during graduation years.

List of Residency Interview Questions

Besides the above questions, here are some more questions:
Discuss your most memorable encounter with a patient?
What other residency programs you’ve applied for?
What differentiates you from other applicants?
If you’re asked to describe yourself in just 1 word, what would it be?
What are your hobbies and activities?
Where do you see yourself in the next five to ten years?
How do you handle crisis and adversities?
What are your medical career plans for the coming years?
Besides medical field, what are the various things in life that you are passionate about?
What are your strengths?
What are your weaknesses?
How can you contribute to the success of the residency program?
Residency Questions to Ask

You may be having many questions regarding the program and institute. You can clear these queries by asking it to the faculties and residents in the campus.
What is the basic mantra of these programs?
Who are the faculty and how long have been they in the institute?
What are the prospects of the placements?
Are there any scholarships for the residents?
What are the various hospitals I’ve to go for my training schedules?
What are the class schedules and training methodologies?
How many patients will I check per day, once I’m trained enough to do so?
What are the expectations of the faculty from the students?
What is the evaluation system for the residency programs?
How is the traffic in the area?
How is the workload for the interns?
How is the geographical area and are there any landmarks in the nearby places?
How is the security around the hospital and parks in this area?
What is the pass percentage of the students since the last 5 years?
What is the ratio of male/female/married/unmarried trainers?
How is the network of computers in the campus and is there proper wireless connectivity?
Are there general conferences and seminars on daily basis?
You may like to read more on these articles:
Medical Career Information
Becoming a Doctor
Job Interview Questions and Answers
Medical Jobs
These were residency interview questions that are generally asked in the residency programs interviews. Although these interviews tell you many things about the programs and its success, personally meeting the students and knowing the facts always helps. So, before enrolling for these programs, do a proper research and planning. Wish you luck for a bright future!

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Kindergarten Teacher Interview Questions

As a parent, you are anxious about your kids heading for their first day in kindergarten and yes you do expect a lot! The education and classroom environment have to stand up to your expectations. The same is the expectation of a principal of the school. Above everything, the primary responsibility of the head of the school is to see that his institution lies on the best shoulders; the teachers! So, coming up with all possible kindergarten teacher interview questions is something which can provide a clear picture of what would the parents expect of their decision to send their young ones to a particular kindergarten. As with the principal, he can be rest assured that he can chose the best teacher for his students. So, here are some kindergarten teacher interview questions which should be considered to be asked.

Sample Kindergarten Teacher Interview Questions

The following kindergarten teacher interview tips for asking questions are among the basic ones which should be put forward. Parents can come up with their own set of questions, which they feel are important to give them an outlook about the different aspects of their kids’ classroom and environment.

The questions must be based on…
the teacher’s perception towards the primary purpose of kindergarten
daily classroom routine (about the studies and play time, and meal requirements)
the class room size or the number of students
the requirement of any assistance or volunteers of the teacher
the method which the teacher’s should exercise to handle discipline with the students
the different kinds of school safety measures put in place for the kids
the type and amount of homework which the teacher would be looking forward to from the children
curriculum that the teacher has in place for the kids
the teacher’s behavior plan
any different or unique way that the teacher has in mind to help the kids with their learning
any changes which the teacher would like to bring in the generic style of learning in the kindergarten
the teacher’s knowledge and overview on the difference between kindergarten and other grade levels
pacifying skills for difficult kids
inputs on innovation in teaching the young ones
about the teacher’s decision on his choice for this particular institution
the different kinds of kindergarten games and activities which the teacher has in mind
views on including the parents in the educational process
the learning; should it be more of theoretical or it would need practical examples
the teacher’s ability to determine the feeling which the students have for him or her and the class as a whole
how will the teacher determine the potential of each student?
what should someone (a parent or any one as a matter of fact) expect to see and infer from, when he walks into your classroom, without prior notice?
the different sets of rules and regulations the teacher might have, to be followed in the classroom
improving the grasping skills of children who are poor in it
the skills to resolve conflicts between the children
the difference between forcing a child and persuading a child
the teacher’s views on being a teacher and a parent
the teacher’s choice for this profession
So these were some of the basic and must-be-asked kindergarten teacher interview questions, which parents should come up with. However, these questions are solely not meant for the parents or the person who is recruiting the teacher, but for the teachers as well. Through these and similar kinds of questions, they can expect whats coming for them. If you are looking forward to applying for the post of a kindergarten teacher then you can use some of these effective tips by learning more on how to become a kindergarten teacher.

As far as the kindergarten teacher interview questions and answers are concerned, the type of questions can be expected to be similar as the ones, cited above. About the answers; it all depends upon the perception and mind set of the interviewed teacher. Different parents may come up with their own set of kindergarten teacher interview questions and it is most likely that the answers may vary from teacher to teacher. However, what’s more important is the outcome of all such exercises which would prove to yield beneficial fruits for the young minds and their future!

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Telephone Interview Tips: How to Get Your Foot in the Door

As job seekers broaden their horizons to include positions far from their home town, and human resources departments try to deal with the deluge of job applications brought on by the recession, telephone interviews have become much more popular. Here are some telephone interview tips that will help you get your foot in the door – and keep it there. Although this is a guide to help you prepare for a phone interview, you’ll discover some handy job interview tips that will help you, whether you’re on the phone or not.

Be Spontaneous

The trouble with a phone interview is that your potential employer can spring one on you at any time, so you must be prepared for the possibility. Here are some telephone interview tips that can prepare you for a spontaneous interview:

Keep Your Resume Handy: You may need to recall key points at a moment’s notice. Ideally, you’d memorize them, but if that’s not possible, be sure your resume is within easy reach.

Know Your Stuff: If this is a job you’re really interested in, one of the first things you should do is commit to memory the key facts about the company and the requirements of the job you’re after.

Keep a Pen in Your Pocket: It’s always a good idea to have a pen and paper handy, just in case you hear something you’ll need to know in the future.

Keep Your Cool: Remember, your questioner knows they’re putting you on the spot. If you’re not sure of an answer, or you need to get your thoughts together, don’t be afraid to take a few deep breaths. It’s better than umm-ing or uhh-ing your way through the interview. This is sound advice for a scheduled phone interview as well.

Be Prepared

If you’ve got some time to prepare, in addition to the above telephone interview tips, try to:

Keep Hydrated: Phone interviews can be lengthy. You don’t want your voice giving out on you at a critical moment.

Control Your Environment: If you’re at home, make sure there’s no obnoxious background noise. If you like to walk and talk, make sure you’re not going to encounter a chain saw on your route.

Dress for Success: Yes, even for a phone interview. How you dress can affect how you act. Dressing nicely will help you to project confidence over the phone.

Remember to Smile: Just as dressing can help your confidence, smiling can help your disposition. Keeping a smile on your face will come through in your voice, even if you don’t notice it.

These are some job interview tips that are uniquely tailored to a telephone interview, but you can apply most of them to an ordinary job interview as well. As with any interview, phone interview questions can be all over the map, so be prepared to answer everything from why you’re looking for a job to how you would respond to a challenge.

If you have time to prepare for a job interview, it’s a good idea to take a few minutes to think about how you envision the interview proceeding. Come up with a pitch that sells yourself and presents your unique qualifications for the job. If there are items on your resume that you don’t want to dwell on, think about how you can transition to a positive aspect of your skill set. Remember, if someone referred you to this position, it never hurts to drop a name.

It takes days to prepare for a job interview, but a phone interview sometimes doesn’t give you that luxury. Hopefully, these telephone interview tips will allow you to avoid potential pitfalls and put your best foot forward during your next phone interview.

Copyright, Cecile Peterkin. All Rights Reserved.

Cecile Peterkin is a Certified Career, Life Coach and Speaker. Feeling stuck in middle management or mid career? Claim your FR-EE Assessment and complimentary career guidance coaching session at: http://www.CosmicCoachingCentre.com/careercoach.html

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Telephone Interview Tips: How to Get Your Foot in the Door

As job seekers broaden their horizons to include positions far from their home town, and human resources departments try to deal with the deluge of job applications brought on by the recession, telephone interviews have become much more popular. Here are some telephone interview tips that will help you get your foot in the door – and keep it there. Although this is a guide to help you prepare for a phone interview, you’ll discover some handy job interview tips that will help you, whether you’re on the phone or not.

Be Spontaneous

The trouble with a phone interview is that your potential employer can spring one on you at any time, so you must be prepared for the possibility. Here are some telephone interview tips that can prepare you for a spontaneous interview:

Keep Your Resume Handy: You may need to recall key points at a moment’s notice. Ideally, you’d memorize them, but if that’s not possible, be sure your resume is within easy reach.

Know Your Stuff: If this is a job you’re really interested in, one of the first things you should do is commit to memory the key facts about the company and the requirements of the job you’re after.

Keep a Pen in Your Pocket: It’s always a good idea to have a pen and paper handy, just in case you hear something you’ll need to know in the future.

Keep Your Cool: Remember, your questioner knows they’re putting you on the spot. If you’re not sure of an answer, or you need to get your thoughts together, don’t be afraid to take a few deep breaths. It’s better than umm-ing or uhh-ing your way through the interview. This is sound advice for a scheduled phone interview as well.

Be Prepared

If you’ve got some time to prepare, in addition to the above telephone interview tips, try to:

Keep Hydrated: Phone interviews can be lengthy. You don’t want your voice giving out on you at a critical moment.

Control Your Environment: If you’re at home, make sure there’s no obnoxious background noise. If you like to walk and talk, make sure you’re not going to encounter a chain saw on your route.

Dress for Success: Yes, even for a phone interview. How you dress can affect how you act. Dressing nicely will help you to project confidence over the phone.

Remember to Smile: Just as dressing can help your confidence, smiling can help your disposition. Keeping a smile on your face will come through in your voice, even if you don’t notice it.

These are some job interview tips that are uniquely tailored to a telephone interview, but you can apply most of them to an ordinary job interview as well. As with any interview, phone interview questions can be all over the map, so be prepared to answer everything from why you’re looking for a job to how you would respond to a challenge.

If you have time to prepare for a job interview, it’s a good idea to take a few minutes to think about how you envision the interview proceeding. Come up with a pitch that sells yourself and presents your unique qualifications for the job. If there are items on your resume that you don’t want to dwell on, think about how you can transition to a positive aspect of your skill set. Remember, if someone referred you to this position, it never hurts to drop a name.

It takes days to prepare for a job interview, but a phone interview sometimes doesn’t give you that luxury. Hopefully, these telephone interview tips will allow you to avoid potential pitfalls and put your best foot forward during your next phone interview.

Copyright, Cecile Peterkin. All Rights Reserved.

Cecile Peterkin is a Certified Career, Life Coach and Speaker. Feeling stuck in middle management or mid career? Claim your FR-EE Assessment and complimentary career guidance coaching session at: http://www.CosmicCoachingCentre.com/careercoach.html

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