http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/telepresence/ falling indelibly into the past Tue, 07 Oct 2008 05:54:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/telepresence/#comment-3984 meg Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:32:29 +0000 http://www.plannedobsolescence.net/telepresence/#comment-3984 I'm a big fan of the video conference -- soooo much better than phone interviews. But everyone needs to be alert, as you imply... Years ago, at Plutocratic U., a program director and I hired an associate director over the summer, via video conference. I kept a close eye on the picture-in-picture so I could judge how I was coming across, but the program director didn't -- she made all sorts of faces when she heard answers she didn't like, etc. Which just made the candidates collapse, except for the one who was strong enough to stand up to her (and whom we hired, of course). That was a memorable lesson in communication for me. I’m a big fan of the video conference — soooo much better than phone interviews. But everyone needs to be alert, as you imply… Years ago, at Plutocratic U., a program director and I hired an associate director over the summer, via video conference. I kept a close eye on the picture-in-picture so I could judge how I was coming across, but the program director didn’t — she made all sorts of faces when she heard answers she didn’t like, etc. Which just made the candidates collapse, except for the one who was strong enough to stand up to her (and whom we hired, of course). That was a memorable lesson in communication for me.

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