Typically, how long a successfull telephonic interview lasts?

[TheFaQQer]

I've only ever had one telephonic interview and didn't get it; well actually I suspect there wasn't really a job and they just gave in to an agent badgering them. But I might be wrong.

All my other interviews have been personic.

Personic? Doesn't that belong in the buzzword bingo thread?

[thunderlizard]

Not sure, if the face to face interview is the norm now.

There aren't any norms in contracting. That's part of the point of it. Plough your own furrow.

[Zippy]

Ahhhh - do you look "funny" Zippy?

Well I didn't think so. Bit of a strange mouth and of course there's all that funny coloured fur but still .....

Maybe I'll get myself one of those burkha thingys too.

[dang65]

Thinking about it, my successful phone interviews for the last three jobs were all really short - around ten minutes - and I wondered if I'd said something wrong and they'd decided to cut it short... but as others have said, it seems they were just confirming I knew what they were on about and could do the work.

On the other hand, I've had a couple of very long phone interviews - 30 minutes or more - which I thought were very positive and ended in a friendly and chatty way, and I didn't get the job.

Lesson seems to be: don't talk for ages if you can possibly avoid it. You'll probably say one little thing which they really don't like, completely cancelling out all the good stuff.