Telephone interviews
Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Tell me, is it normal for organizations in the US to hold telephone interviews as the first round of the hiring process? Even when the organization and candidate are local? 
All the first interviews I’ve had so far (both of them!) have been telephone interviews. In each case I’ve progressed through to an on-site interview. However, both those were distant (Cleveland, Buffalo). I have an interview at the end of today with a local organization, just a handful of miles away, but they want a telephone interview. I suspect there’s a standard process, but it does seem a little strange to someone who, when hiring, would much rather sit down and look a candidate in the eyes!
Meanwhile the leaves continue to fall in a thick blanket. As and when we buy a ‘proper’ house our shopping list now has a new entry -no massive maple trees, unless someone else offers to collect them every Fall.
Of course, you may come into possession of leaves through the same means, but that’s why UK garden fences are often higher on one side of the property than the other.
Our leaves have to suffer the attentions of small children during that process, so many of the leaves undergo the rake-pile process multiple times but they seem to enjoy it.
Then they are taken away and… My knowledge of their journey ends there. What is certain is that the US leaf has a much more exciting life than the UK leaf.
(We’re pressing them and then making wax crayon imprints to create multi-colored paper leaves and then….etc.)
turned into a long stroll, with time spent examining the fallen leaves, last year’s fallen leaves, the stuff below them, all the way down to soil. She’d read a book on leaves recently and was fascinated to see evidence of their life-cycle ‘live’ as it were.
