- One-way interviews
have gained a lot of popularity recently
for companies to screen candidates
in the early stages of the interview process.
Hi, I'm Dalena Bradley, job interview coach
and career marketing specialist
and today I am going to share tips with you
on how to excel in one-way interviews.
If you've interviewed recently,
you may have noticed that it's a couple of steps
into the process before you ever interact with a human.
Companies are baking automation into that recruiting process
because it saves a lot of time and hassle
in terms of scheduling interviews
and then also in those early stages.
And it also creates the same experience for candidates
in terms of the questions that they're being asked
and the time that they are allotted
to answer those questions.
It can be a good thing because candidates can also
record or schedule really at their convenience,
sometimes in off business hours
so there are advantages on both sides.
So it is time to really embrace this
and figure out how you can put your best foot forward
in this less personal environment.
Before you ever actually interview,
you have to schedule and a lot of times
you'll be doing that via text or via email
with an automated scheduling system.
And so what's important to remember there
is to treat this as if you were,
if there was a human on the other end.
So use good grammar,
make sure everything's spelled correctly,
avoid using a lot of abbreviations or acronyms or lingo
and write in a professional way
as though somebody is eventually going to be reading it.
Once you are scheduled, you might be interviewing with a bot
or you might be asked to record responses just on your phone
and you can upload a file,
but either way it's really important
to prepare for those kinds of interviews
just as you would for an in-person interview.
So after you have figured out some responses
to tell me about yourself,
what are some of the key strengths
that you would bring to the organization,
why you're interested in the role,
why you're interested in this particular company
and thinking through some of the behavioral questions
you might be asked,
remember that you want to have good responses
to those questions
in addition to having everything put into place
as though you were interviewing in person.
So that means doing a background check,
making sure that you've eliminated
distractions from your background, that it's quiet,
that your lighting and your audio is on point,
that you're professionally dressed
and that you bring energy and eye contact
and that your answers are succinct and in some cases,
again, you may have, you probably will have a time limit
so you're going to be forced to do that.
So really it all boils down to put the same amount
of preparation into talking with a bot
or prerecording your responses
as you would if you were talking with somebody in person.
For more information about me
or to prepare for your interview,
please visit my website, dalenabradley.com,
and in the meantime, I wish you the very best
in your next interview and in your career.