Paul J. Bailo - The Essential Digital Interview Handbook: Lights, Camera, Interview: Tips for Skype, Google Hangout, GoToMeeting, and More

Praise for The Essential Digital Interview Handbook

Readers with an entrepreneurial mindset will devour The Essential Digital Interview Handbook because it provides the road map to successful sales and marketing engagement over the web.

Ilya Pozin, CEO of Open Me, columnist for Inc, Forbes, and LinkedIn, serial entrepreneur

This is the best time to learn everything you can about digital interviewing techniques, and Paul Bailos well-researched knowledge will keep you ahead of the curve.

Christine Giordano, Newsday journalist and writer/producer, On Your Watch

Paul Bailos The Essential Digital Interview Handbook is a great servicepractical, well written, data driven insights and wisdom. Reading this book will allow you to perform as a senior executive in the digital world. A wonderful creation.

Peter Horn, chairman at Euro-Capital Group, Inc.

Its just as important for executive recruiters, like me, to project a professional image in virtual interviews with my clients and applicants. Thats why I read The Essential Digital Interview Handbook.

Ralph F. Conserva, president of Conserva Resources, Inc. 25+ years of Executive Placement

Luck is another word for opportunity and with the guidance of The Essential Digital Interview Handbook, you will jumpstart your job search and magnify your chances for stellar face-to-face performances via technology for any interview.

Cynthia Brian, New York Times best-selling author, radio personality, and founder/executive director, Be the Star You Are! 501 c3 literacy charity

THE ESSENTIAL

HANDBOOK

LIGHTS, CAMERA, INTERVIEW: TIPS FOR SKYPE, GOOGLE HANGOUT, GOTOMEETING, AND MORE

PAUL J. BAILO

Copyright 2014 by Paul J. Bailo

All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher, The Career Press.

THE ESSENTIAL DIGITAL INTERVIEW HANDBOOK
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows: Bailo, Paul J., 1965

The essential digital interview handbook : lights, camera, Skype / by Paul J. Bailo. pages cm

Summary: In todays increasingly interconnected world, vir-tual meetings have become a staple of business practice. Unsurprisingly, so has the digital interview. 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. 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-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-60163-303-3 (pbk.) -- ISBN 978-1-60163-489-4 (ebook) 1. Employment interviewing. 2. Job hunting--Computer networks. 3. Job hunting--Technological innovations. 4. Skype (Electronic resource) I. Title.

HF5549.5.I6B35 2013
650.14402854678--dc23

2013039022

To my family:
Kathleen, Connor, and
Kaitlyn.
And our new puppy,
Fenway.

Theres no question that this book would never have happened if it werent for the constant support of my family and friends. I want to thank my wife, Kathleen, and our wonderful children, Connor and Kaitlyn, who allowed me to miss baseball games, soccer games, and quality family time while Daddy wrote a book to help others. Thank you to the rest of my family and friends who keep me energized, excited, and moving forward.

To the team at Career Press, thank you. To Adam Schwartz, my acquisitions editor, thank you for bringing life to my book. A special thank-you to Kirsten Dalley, whose wisdom and creative editing added significant value to the book. I could not have done it without you.

And to Gareth Esersky at the Carol Mann Agency, thank you for taking my call, meeting me at the bookstore, and making the book deal happen. Next stop: world book tour!

Finally, a big thank you must go to Amanda Stoll. Amanda helped to organize and edit all the material on my previous book, The Essential Phone Interview Handbook, and, after much success on that project, has come back to assist with my second book. Her experience using Skype to conduct her own job search from Bangkok has made her a key player in assembling and refining the content. Her detail-oriented nature and her intelligent sense of humor brought grammatical structure and witty examples to this book, making it one that can be easily understood and applied to virtually all readers. Thank you, Amanda, for all your hard work.

by Dave Opton, Founder, ExecuNet

People say that 50 percent of getting any job is getting the chance to sit across the desk from the hiring manager. Seems right to me, but over the years, it has also been my experience that in their desire to get there, lots of candidates are so focused on that objective that they forget about the first 50 percent, or at least they take a lot of it for granted.

People think that the name of the game, especially in these cyber times, is to get a resume and then fire salvo after salvo into the ether and wait for a phone call, e-mail, or text messagean oversimplification perhaps, but sad to say, not all that far off.

To say that the competition for opportunities in todays marketplace is intense would be an understatement. What many of us dont think about when we find ourselves involved in this competition is that the first 50 percent is even tougher than the second 50 percent. After all, think of how many competitors get screened digitally or otherwise before they become one of the four to six finalists who actually get to sit across the aforementioned desk. Your percentages are a lot better when you are in the face-to-face stage than if you are one of the 200, plus or minus, who are actually contacted out of the thousands who apply.

There is also a saying that the definition of luck is when preparation meets opportunity. Whether it is Skype, Google Hangout, Facebook, video conferences, or Google glasses, the degree to which you understand and master how to present yourself effectively in todays digital world will determine your ability to make it from the first 50 percent to the second.