got my hsbc telephone interview this afternoon eeek

kittykate_2

Well, I got my telephone interview this aft, I've never had one before. I've prepared a bit but have no clue and i HATE talking on the phone as well. lol. So scared I gonna sound like a right t1t. wish I didn't have to have this phone talk!!! :eek:

anyone got any advice??

please!!

Ta,
KKx

hjb123

Good Luck.

Am sure you will do fine, just be yourself!

Let us know how it goes

saintjanet

I work for hsbc and did not know they did this,mind you when i was taken on the telephone had not been invented!!!

kittykate_2

lol, seriously?? just over an hour to go.... eeeeek.

saintjanet

i have been there a loooooooooong time,good luck with the interiew,i have been on loads of radio phone-ins and i am always really nervous,when my friends hear me they say oh you sounded really confident!!its all in the mind

justpaper

depends what job or going for,. but being a bank they might ask u some maths questions,. but like i said really depends on what job ur going for,..

Astaroth

Make sure you are somewhere quiet and without distraction (unlike a previous poster who decided to do theirs when out in the park with their mates). Have a pen and paper (and possibly calculator) to hand.

Telephone interviews tend to be very early stage initial opinions on can you communicate clearly and have at least a reasonable level of intelligence.

kittykate_2

I'm in my bedroom with the housephone. I got pen and paper jus need calculator. I not so bad at maths, got a B at gcse and just graduated in psychology which had loads of stats in it.

Applied for the in-branch sales representative job.

kittykate_2

Well it only lasted 25 mins which I dunno whether thats a good or bad thing. It went pretty badly. It focussed a lot on sales and convincing people and I couldn't think fast enough so I don't think the situations I gave were very good. She said I'll find out in 2-3 days.

KKx

ps: she kept putting me off cos she was typing up notes on what I was saying so all I could hear was "tap tap tap". At least I know what to expect on a phone interview now.

hjb123

Oh am sure you will have done fine. Its always hard doing phone interviews as you dont know who you are talking to.

Hope you get the job!

Astaroth

It is always bad when they do that given that they could easily enough record it and then play it back later. In one I had there was frequent 5 minutes of silence as she wrote up the notes and she was clearly reading from a script because I would give a "complete" answer to what was obviously part A of a larger question but she still insisted on asking parts B, C & D even though I had already answered them.

25 minutes is about the right length for a telephone interview so fingers crossed for when you hear back