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• Phone Interview Things to note
• Today, majority of the companies in gulf region
  conduct phone interviews before inviting for a
  face-to-face interview. Perhaps the key decision
  maker of the interview is in some other country
  or travelling and may not be able to meet you in
  person. In this case too, a phone interview would
  be conducted. Considering the fact that a lot of
  work happen over the phone in the current work
  environment, assessment through phone interview
  is as crucial as assessment through face-to-face
  interviews. Here are few tips on how to
  effectively manage a phone interview
• Always provide a second contact number to the
  interviewer
• Always provide a second contact number saying
  if in case, my number xyz is not reachable ,
  please do call me on abc. In an unforeseen
  situation of your primary number not being
  reachable, this will make sure you will never
  miss the interview.
• Confirm the day, time and time zone
• Given the probability that interviewer and
  recruiter could be in different time zones or if
  you are new to the gulf region, there could be
  possibility for confusion and hence miss the
  interview. Missing the interview is never a good
  sign. In order to avoid that, confirm the
  interview day, time and time zone with the
  recruiter or the person who coordinates the
  interview.
• Confirm who calls whom
• Make it clear if the recruiter would call the
  candidate or the candidate needs to call the
  recruiter. In 90 of the cases, recruiter calls
  the candidate. But however
• to be on the safe side, confirm who calls whom.
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4) Confirm if its a direct call or telephonic
conference.
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• Most of the times it would be a direct call to
  your mobile or landline from the interviewer but
  few companies follow tele-conferencing. In tele
  conferencing, you would be given a dial in number
  and access code. Dial-in 5 minutes prior to the
  start of the interview. Never dial in late and
  make the interviewer wait.
• Dress up as you would dress for a face-to-face
  interview
• You might attend the interview from home, while
  commuting or you current office. Its advisable
  you dress up and prepare just like how you would
  go for a
• face-to-face interview. This would help you feel
  professional and serious about
• the interview.
• Find out a silent place with no signal problems
• Nobody, especially the interviewer would like to
  have disturbances on the call. Find out a place
  where there would be least or less disturbance at
  the same time do not have mobile signal issues.
  If you are taking an interview from your current
  office, make sure you are in a place where none
  of your colleagues would
• come in between and disturb you.
• Make sure your mobile phone has sufficient
  battery charge
• There are chances that interview might go further
  beyond the expected time. So keep your mobile
  phone fully charged before the interview. Itd
  advisable you
• use hand free to talk as this would help you scan
  through your documents at any point of time if
  the interviewer asks so.
• Keep all your documents handy including resume