How to prepare for videosobesedovaniyu

Interview - stress. Videosobesedovanie - stress twice. On the way to the dream can get problems with the connection, background noise, dull image. Eleven tips to help pass an interview on Skype and make a good impression.

1. Advance check Internet connection

Slow Internet will bring to naught the most thorough training. You can be a great expert, but if the picture and sound disappear periodically, the impression you will get a non-winning.

2. Prepare additional equipment

It can be stand by smartphone or tablet if you plan to use gadgets. Or running headphones that will help to minimize background noise. Run for the expensive headphones not required. Suitable headset from your phone with the built-in microphone.

3. Check software

Pre-check plugins, audio inputs and outputs, setting the service that you want to use for video calls. If you want to pre-load the application, or create a new account to run. Practice pressing the Mute button, check the video settings in the application, try to share the screen.

4. Prepare a "film set"

Think about what position you will take during the conversation. to be convenient for you? Check that you have the background. Practice looking directly into the camera to the interlocutor the feeling of direct eye contact. If you are going to use multiple monitors, set them so that the other person has seen your face and not the ear or head.

5. Use frontal lighting

One of the most common mistakes - to sit down with his back to the window.

Point the light source itself in the face.

6. Choose a quiet place to talk

In the coffee shop around the corner it is actually quite noisy. Closed in the next room, children can break out suddenly and spoil a serious conversation cheers. So find a place in advance where no one will disturb.

7. Turn off sound notifications

Before videosobesedovaniem mute on gadgets in instant messengers and social networks, close the tabs in the browser, if they can suddenly make a sound, and pick up the handset intercom. Suddenly came the postman or update notification may interrupt you in the most important place.

8. Inform the other party that you are going to take notes

We are talking about the electronic notes. If you are going during a call to record something, tell your recipient. Knocking keys can cause it just puzzled and even irritation: you might think that you have decided to write to a friend in the middle of a conversation in the chat.

9. Make a test call

Work out in advance to call and talk via video, as well as to press the right buttons during the conversation. This is especially useful if you have no experience in video calls. On the day videosobesedovaniya also make a test call to check the connection, the sound, the connection and the way you look on the screen. Good idea to prepare a Plan B: The contract with the person that contact by phone in case of disconnection.

10. Priodentes

It is tempting to be interviewed in the home clothes. It's better not to do so. Dress is not necessarily enough to look clean and neat.

11. Behave naturally

But do not overdo it. It is not necessary to spin the chair to ride him around the room, occasionally leaving the frame, or to do something like that. Smile and show you that the conversation pleasant. In the end, you have to show the goods, that is, himself, a person.