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That sounds way easier . Would you update me with your success please
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The thing with that though, is that the standard of answers will probably be higher as people will be able to prepare their response to the questions asked - also if you go off track, you won't see the body language/facial expressions, or be asked a question from the another angle/asked to clarify.MarkN88 said:
To be honest I thought it was a lot easier than what a face to face would be because I got more time to prepared and practice because all they had you do was record answers to questions so it didn’t have you speaking to anyone else.Holmesy777 said:That’s positive news , thanks for reply and good luck hope it went well.1 -
I’d not thought of that as the strength questions in my my interview were on the spot questions not able to prepare for .Emmia said:
The thing with that though, is that the standard of answers will probably be higher as people will be able to prepare their response to the questions asked - also if you go off track, you won't see the body language/facial expressions, or be asked a question from the another angle/asked to clarify.MarkN88 said:
To be honest I thought it was a lot easier than what a face to face would be because I got more time to prepared and practice because all they had you do was record answers to questions so it didn’t have you speaking to anyone else.Holmesy777 said:That’s positive news , thanks for reply and good luck hope it went well.0 -
Very true and I do expect the standard to be higher since more preparation was possible. I’ll wait and see how it goes.1
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