Telephone Interview?

DullGreyGuy

TELLIT01 said:

If the OP has been told it's a telephone interview I would expect it to be voice only.  If anything else is expected the company should be making that clear.  I've only use my phone a couple of times for video calls and it has been terrible.  Long delays in speech resulting either in talking over each other or exceptionally long silences.

Phone or computer should be identical for video calls unless one is particularly old and underpowered for what is a relatively light task.

The term is somewhat interchangable but its easy enough to ask the recruiter/agent if its phone call or Teams or such... even in my call centre days the agent would send an email to confirm the interview and in that it would then become clear as either it will say "they will call you at 11am on 077xxxxxxxxx" or "your interview will be at teams using teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OTR" 

At times you were invited onsite to do a "telephone assessment" but that would be described as an interview including a telephone assessment rather than a telephone interview. 

TELLIT01

DullGreyGuy said:

TELLIT01 said:

If the OP has been told it's a telephone interview I would expect it to be voice only.  If anything else is expected the company should be making that clear.  I've only use my phone a couple of times for video calls and it has been terrible.  Long delays in speech resulting either in talking over each other or exceptionally long silences.

Phone or computer should be identical for video calls unless one is particularly old and underpowered for what is a relatively light task.

The term is somewhat interchangable but its easy enough to ask the recruiter/agent if its phone call or Teams or such... even in my call centre days the agent would send an email to confirm the interview and in that it would then become clear as either it will say "they will call you at 11am on 077xxxxxxxxx" or "your interview will be at teams using teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OTR" 

At times you were invited onsite to do a "telephone assessment" but that would be described as an interview including a telephone assessment rather than a telephone interview. 

My wife always put our landline number down as her contact number.  I'd love to see anybody do a video call to that one.  She simply doesn't like using her mobile and has it for emergences.  On odd occasions she will actually answer it if I call her on it!

DullGreyGuy

TELLIT01 said:

DullGreyGuy said:

TELLIT01 said:

If the OP has been told it's a telephone interview I would expect it to be voice only.  If anything else is expected the company should be making that clear.  I've only use my phone a couple of times for video calls and it has been terrible.  Long delays in speech resulting either in talking over each other or exceptionally long silences.

Phone or computer should be identical for video calls unless one is particularly old and underpowered for what is a relatively light task.

The term is somewhat interchangable but its easy enough to ask the recruiter/agent if its phone call or Teams or such... even in my call centre days the agent would send an email to confirm the interview and in that it would then become clear as either it will say "they will call you at 11am on 077xxxxxxxxx" or "your interview will be at teams using teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OTR" 

At times you were invited onsite to do a "telephone assessment" but that would be described as an interview including a telephone assessment rather than a telephone interview. 

My wife always put our landline number down as her contact number.  I'd love to see anybody do a video call to that one.  She simply doesn't like using her mobile and has it for emergences.  On odd occasions she will actually answer it if I call her on it!

Kind of misses the point of the text you highlighted given you said you had used "my phone" for video calls so clearly the phone in question wasnt the landline. 

Certainly in all the cases of VC interviews I've had its been done via meeting software like Teams, Zoom, WebEx, BlueJeans etc and not by the interview just randomly trying to Facetime or WhatsApp on video. It therefore wouldnt be the case of giving your telephone number and the interview suddenly on the day discovering your number isnt registered with WhatsApp

TELLIT01

DullGreyGuy said:

TELLIT01 said:

DullGreyGuy said:

TELLIT01 said:

If the OP has been told it's a telephone interview I would expect it to be voice only.  If anything else is expected the company should be making that clear.  I've only use my phone a couple of times for video calls and it has been terrible.  Long delays in speech resulting either in talking over each other or exceptionally long silences.

Phone or computer should be identical for video calls unless one is particularly old and underpowered for what is a relatively light task.

The term is somewhat interchangable but its easy enough to ask the recruiter/agent if its phone call or Teams or such... even in my call centre days the agent would send an email to confirm the interview and in that it would then become clear as either it will say "they will call you at 11am on 077xxxxxxxxx" or "your interview will be at teams using teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OTR" 

At times you were invited onsite to do a "telephone assessment" but that would be described as an interview including a telephone assessment rather than a telephone interview. 

My wife always put our landline number down as her contact number.  I'd love to see anybody do a video call to that one.  She simply doesn't like using her mobile and has it for emergences.  On odd occasions she will actually answer it if I call her on it!

Kind of misses the point of the text you highlighted given you said you had used "my phone" for video calls so clearly the phone in question wasnt the landline. 

Certainly in all the cases of VC interviews I've had its been done via meeting software like Teams, Zoom, WebEx, BlueJeans etc and not by the interview just randomly trying to Facetime or WhatsApp on video. It therefore wouldnt be the case of giving your telephone number and the interview suddenly on the day discovering your number isnt registered with WhatsApp

It doesn't miss the point at all.  I may use a mobile phone, but my wife rarely does.  Anybody needing to speak to her would need to use the landline and you can't do video calls on that.

DullGreyGuy

TELLIT01 said:

DullGreyGuy said:

TELLIT01 said:

DullGreyGuy said:

TELLIT01 said:

If the OP has been told it's a telephone interview I would expect it to be voice only.  If anything else is expected the company should be making that clear.  I've only use my phone a couple of times for video calls and it has been terrible.  Long delays in speech resulting either in talking over each other or exceptionally long silences.

Phone or computer should be identical for video calls unless one is particularly old and underpowered for what is a relatively light task.

The term is somewhat interchangable but its easy enough to ask the recruiter/agent if its phone call or Teams or such... even in my call centre days the agent would send an email to confirm the interview and in that it would then become clear as either it will say "they will call you at 11am on 077xxxxxxxxx" or "your interview will be at teams using teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_OTR" 

At times you were invited onsite to do a "telephone assessment" but that would be described as an interview including a telephone assessment rather than a telephone interview. 

My wife always put our landline number down as her contact number.  I'd love to see anybody do a video call to that one.  She simply doesn't like using her mobile and has it for emergences.  On odd occasions she will actually answer it if I call her on it!

Kind of misses the point of the text you highlighted given you said you had used "my phone" for video calls so clearly the phone in question wasnt the landline. 

Certainly in all the cases of VC interviews I've had its been done via meeting software like Teams, Zoom, WebEx, BlueJeans etc and not by the interview just randomly trying to Facetime or WhatsApp on video. It therefore wouldnt be the case of giving your telephone number and the interview suddenly on the day discovering your number isnt registered with WhatsApp

It doesn't miss the point at all.  I may use a mobile phone, but my wife rarely does.  Anybody needing to speak to her would need to use the landline and you can't do video calls on that.

No, because they'd send an email saying click this link to join the interview