Zippy and everyone notes should accompany you everywhere
never leave home without it never get on a phone interview without them
never get on a video interview without them however
however how you use your notes there's two dimensions here
if they are notes that you have prepared so there's different kind of notes you
take right there's notes i prepared to package my interview responses never
look at those ever you never want to look to a script
to respond to an interview i'm not even going to go in any more detail on that
don't do it second thing is i created notes
because during the discussions you said something that i wanted to
capture now if i'm asking you questions right
phone interview video interview in-person interview panel interview
doesn't make any difference and i'm you're talking to me right i'm the
candidate i'm making my notes oh you said something
interesting you jot your note down in whatever shorthand you want to put it in
just so that you retain the information or
you're reminding yourself that you need to ask them something but don't want to
interrupt them okay now i might collect all that during
an interview and i might not get to stop you
or i might determine that the note i took is not nearly as important as me
getting this other question answered okay so i i might get it later
those kind of notes bring back or bring to the next phone interview or video
interview or whatever say hey you know you mentioned something
the other day and i you know i jotted it down it was
so important because i wanted to make sure i followed up on this or
you know susie mentioned something when i was on the phone with her i thought it
would be really good to ask you about this
right if you are using them to refer back to something that you previously
talked about gold okay third kind the notes you take
related to the questions you want to ask so these may or may not be notes maybe
they're your list of questions maybe it's a spreadsheet maybe it's a
word document maybe it's a legal pad or whatever
it should not be your phone or your ipad or your computer or
anything where you have to look at a screen
paper you can type it or you can write it
but print it bring that in then if they say hey andy do you have any questions
for me i do as a matter of fact glance at your
thing don't read the question to them glance
at it okay i know what that question is hey i wanted to ask you about great
take your notes go down i wanted to ask you about i wanted to ask you about and
go through them okay but you that is okay so
you prepped and you wrote out things about you know your stories and things
you want to remember don't ever refer to those if they're
notes that you made in hand-to-hand combat in the dialogue
you can jot those down you bring those in
if they were notes that you made in preparation for questions you want to
ask bring those in okay it's okay have paper
okay why don't you want screens multiple reasons number one you never
ever under any circumstance want to bring anything in
that can cause any kind of distraction to you or them
you forgot to silence the alarms the phone rings
right you're looking at a you're you're looking at a uh
your phone or your ipad and your wife texts you
okay like don't don't do any of that stuff
second thing is they don't know what you're looking at they might think
you're not paying attention to them okay so you just don't chance that okay
don't chance that at all paper is the way to go
so you can type it out and then print the paper or you can handwrite it out
and print it it doesn't make any difference but just don't don't use an
electronic device it's a big big mistake big mistake and when you are on a video
interview let's go you one further as a bonus tip here
when you're on a video interview do not do not put your stuff in the screen
why it might look like well it's easier look there's everything right there
the problem is what happens if all of a sudden
you lose your video but audio work don't this happens i do zoom sessions every
day with what people in my one-on-one coaching
it half the time they can't get their video or audio to work
okay but we keep like we keep going we figure out a way they're dialing in the
phone they're doing whatever you just never know you do not want to
rely on technology not to mention again i don't want to see
things flashing on the screen or whatever they might not be able to see
it but still it could distract you okay
right now on my machine okay there's the operating software
there's the youtube thing so i could make sure that there we go there's the
guy and i can see him moving and everything looks like there's a green
light there it tells me everything's working
i have a communication with my team because they got to tell me you forgot
something or whatever but everything else is shot
okay i make sure that the mic audio i can see that's working so
everything is is only for purposes to make sure that this works
okay you need to make sure that you're not doing anything to distract you
okay and and so i just i but notes are very important and as a matter of fact i
kind of get a little bummed when people don't take notes
you're never going to remember everything i tell you you won't you
won't so do it it's it's really a great one
that's and and and zippy i'm glad that things went well
i'm glad you are blowing them away and i'm i'm
wishing you lots of luck
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