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    The Essential Digital Interview Handbook: Lights, Camera, Interview: Tips for Skype, Google Hangout, GotoMeeting, and More
    The Essential Digital Interview Handbook: Lights, Camera, Interview: Tips for Skype, Google Hangout, GotoMeeting, and More
    The Essential Digital Interview Handbook: Lights, Camera, Interview: Tips for Skype, Google Hangout, GotoMeeting, and More
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    The Essential Digital Interview Handbook: Lights, Camera, Interview: Tips for Skype, Google Hangout, GotoMeeting, and More

    By Paul J. Bailo

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    In today’s increasingly interconnected world, virtual meetings have become a staple of business practice. Unsurprisingly, so has the digital interview. Physical distance between potential employers and job-seekers is no longer the impediment it once was for face-to-face engagement. In the past year alone, the number of people who use Skype for this purpose has risen from about 300 million to more than 405 million, with a whopping 66-percent increase in users who log in from their mobile devices. Moreover, 35 percent of all businesses in the United States use Skype as their primary means of communication.

    These numbers point to one simple fact: you need The Essential Digital Interview Handbook! This book, the first one of its kind, will cover everything you need to know, including:

    • How to prepare for your digital interview
    • How to avoid common pitfalls and mistakes
    • How to establish a professional presence by using the correct microphone and camera
    • How—and when—to take the next step, and transition from virtual to in-person

    Your next job will likely be waiting for you on the other end of a video conference. These tips will also help you appear more professional for media interviews and presenting online. Let The Essential Digital Interview Handbook walk you through the steps to success.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCareer Press
    Release dateDec 22, 2013
    ISBN9781601634894
    The Essential Digital Interview Handbook: Lights, Camera, Interview: Tips for Skype, Google Hangout, GotoMeeting, and More
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    Paul J. Bailo

    Paul J. Bailo, MBA, MSW, is the founder and CEO of Phone Interview Pro, a service for job seekers who want to perfect their telephone job interviewing skills. After recognizing that the importance of the phone interview is often overlooked, Bailo prompted Phone Interview Pro to create a 250-plus point phone evaluation, previously nonexistent in the career services industry.

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    The Essential Digital Interview Handbook - Paul J. Bailo

    PART ONE:

    PREPARING

    1. SOFTWARE

    The heart of your operation for your personalized digital interviewing studio lies in the software. However, this book is not software specific. Whether you are using Google Hangout or Skype or GoToMeeting or any other video chatting software, all I ask is that you are comfortable with it. But you must be proficient enough to leverage the power of whatever software product you choose.

    In my own, personal videoconference studio, I favor Google Hangout because it is simple and powerful. It makes life easy when connecting with another person for a digital job interview. You just have to make sure you have all the right components and it runs on the right frequency in terms of what product software the other person is using. You also cannot go wrong with using Skype, a major player in the videoconferencing world now owned by Microsoft. A third option, which I have nothing bad to say about, is GoToMeeting, another product that is easy to use.

    This book is not an endorsement of one product over another. It is encouraging the use of any of these products to assist you in performing at the highest level. As time goes on, greater and greater advancements in video chatting are taking place, so there will always be a newer software system to use. This book will be able to support you and propel you forward no matter which software or technology product you choose to use.

    The core component is not just the software, but how you control the software in combination with the lighting, sound, background, and script. The combination of how you put it all together to create the success story of you communicating, connecting and leveraging the digital job interviewing process is of utmost importance. You must use your software to create a powerful, emotional connection with the person on the other end.

    Story With a Moral

    I remember Sam, a senior in college, telling me how great all the new video software packages were with their new amazing features. However, Sam seemed unable to use this software to get past the digital interview and land a face-to-face meeting. He had digital interviews with several big-name companies, but they never led to an in-person meeting. He was an expert on the software—in fact, he could even write the code for Skype—yet he could not perform well on camera. Why? He forgot that the show was about him, not the equipment he used. Software is simply a tool, just as a paintbrush is a tool for an artist. You can paint a magnificent landscape with lush colors on a canvas, or you can create a game of tick-tack-toe on a piece of paper. The difference in the outcome is the artist, not the

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