Telly Fone Phobia

[mikebird]

Set up for next week's phone interviews and phone conferences

Nice 'n' easy way to reject anyone who sounds a bit nervous or funny / weird on the phone...

One recruiter actually starting using Skype. Seen. Spoke. Laughed. All his colleagues staring at the camera. Good kudos all round. But the phone interview will be the standard way. Great. A whispery little squeeak.

Different suggestion to communicate by interview, if all have to be restricted to an ear squeak which means nothing. How about some body language under the desk, where an HR expert unzips me to get a feel of me underneath? Hire or fire?

With the cool Skype chat yesterday, I suggest an alternative of turning up in the car park with a megaphone to convey some thoughts to staff on the third floor. They can see me. They pop their heads outta the windows so I can see 'em, and they grab their megaphone. Everyone in other buildings can see & hear us.

The telly FONE is entirely a magic veil to hide behind. Oooohhh! ::

Skype recruiters can see my clothes, the expression on my face and the bristles on my beard, in macro! When I move close.

I'll be very glad about my 9am meeting with the careers team in person at my local college, which we arranged today... by phone...

 

[kilojoule]

Skype interviews sounds daunting I hope it goes well for you

 

[Section_31]

thats one thing i absolutely despise about the technological age in which we live. Despite all the good things, theres also downsides like what yuove mentioned, and while you can see the other person theres still that distance and separation that dehumanizes the whole process, and it becomes all too easy to see someone as a number and to brush them off without having the guts to at least look them in the eye across a table when they tell you you dont have it. cowards.

Pardon me, i feel quite strongly about this, lol. I make it a point to try to keep technology out of some aspects of life. instead of using the automated machine at the grocery store i like to talk to the cashier for a minute, just the little stuff .

 

[angelcat]

I have phone phobia, I get nervous and irritable when it rings. I would definitely fail at a phone interview too. I can't understand what people are saying on the phone, when they say a word I think it is a different word. I might do ok on Skype but would definitely do a lot better in person. I can pretty much act and look the way they want for a short period of time, its only long term is when I start having a problem. I eventually wont fit the groups politics and I probably wont make a connection with anyone either.

 

[Silatuyok]

I've had phone phobia since I was four years old and my siblings played a cruel trick on me. These days the only one I ever talk to on the phone is my boss, and I dread that because she mumbles and slurs and doesn't talk loudly enough, and I have to keep telling her that I can't hear her, when I already feel dumb for having to bother her in the first place.

 

[mikebird]

Yep.

Maybe as a child the phone might sound noisy, loud, and scary?

I can't remember those times. My mum always dealt with all phone calls! Of course! The outgoing person of the family.

It's different now. It's business. The phone is just a toy for a cold-calling telemarketer in a callcentre.

Equivalent to your boss. My boss is now dozens of different people throughout my day. Recruiters flock to me, demanding my attention. Their flimsy 'tactics / approach / strategy' is dull, sad and childlike. Maybe I'm Wrong?

The mumbles and quiet speech are what I hear. It's a game.

They hold my life on the tip of fingers

 

[Gaucho]

i also have phone phobia. it sucks. even on my birthday i get super anxious when family member gonna call.

 

[JuiceB]

Phone phobia - yep that's me too. At least I'm not alone.

 

[cowboyup]

whenever the phone rings, I seem to suffer a minor heart attack. I don't know why - not like I am wanted by the police. I dread talking on the phone so much so that I have my ringer off on the cell phone and just the vibrate for text messages because I am getting sick and tired of jumping like a fool when it would ring...mostly telemarkers, or my brother or grandma, but still.