The Phone Screen Questions You Can’t Forget

The phone interview is one of the most effective tools in a recruiter’s arsenal when it comes to filtering out unqualified candidates.

With every successive round of interviewing, recruiters and hiring managers should be getting closer to their ideal candidate. With that goal in mind, the phone interview should serve as a tool to make wide-sweeping cuts. It should be approached as such. Vic Mahillon of the OpenView Labs team has conducted numerous phone interviews as a recruiter and, in the process, has developed certain go-to questions that he uses to assess candidates.

Phone interviews, if approached correctly, can shave a lot of time off of the interview process for companies, he explains. For details on Mahillon’s go-to questions to ask new candidates, watch the video from OpenView Labs.