Teams interview for local on-site contract

[sadkingbilly]

some transcripts are hilarious
especially when regional accents/transatlantic/european english is in play.

[edison]

And there's lots of tools that can record and transcribe Teams (and other) meetings without anyone actually knowing about it. I would actually recommend getting a free trial of one so you have your own record of the interview as you won't have access to the Teams generated output.

I use a tool called Krisp and the product manager at my client uses Granola. Both work in similar ways to record meetings without joining them and then they can create a summary afterwards. It's always worth spending 10 minutes after each meeting making sure the participants are correctly identified and sense checking the transcript.

It goes even further than transcription or searching for keywords.

One company I interviewed with earlier in the year used an AI note taker integrated with Teams. It could do things like analyse your CV and LinkedIn profile, produce complete insight summaries of each candidate based against the questions asked and JD etc.

Personally I always prefer to do interviews face to face but it's just a reality that you can't be too picky in this market.

[willendure]

HMRC just sent me a £600 rebate, I've no idea what for, but ta! So I bought a Mac Mini, as I need to be able to build some code on Mac now. But it will make a top class video conferencing box, where OBS runs nicely instead of crashing like it does on Linux. OBS doesn't cut it ? there is better software you can buy.

So I am thinking, instead of hating video interviews and being bad at them, go the other way, create a nice scene, carefully chosen and real background or a green screen even, and be able to switch quickly from full screen of my handsome mug, to picture-in-picture my talking head in a screen share, and so on. Get the camera set up so I can make "eye contact", I would even consider a teleprompter for that. I've got a DSLR and ok microphone, maybe consider spending a bit on a half-decent mike and a little bit of lighting. Get it all set up and looking quality.

Last interview I mostly saw the top of the interviewers slightly balding head, and came away thinking he was a right twat. So being prepared to meet with that and not be put off by it is important for me too.

[willendure]

I remember, many many moons ago, getting a gig on the basis of a telephone interview and then quitting after my first day in the office once I'd had the tour and saw what a tulip-hole it was, and the personalities I'd have to put up with.

I respect that move. Myself I probably would have been thinking 6 months, 500 quid a day, yesss... i could probably hack this... don't run away when its already in the bag..!

[ladymuck]

I respect that move. Myself I probably would have been thinking 6 months, 500 quid a day, yesss... i could probably hack this... don't run away when its already in the bag..!

It was early in my contracting career and gigs were far easier to come by.