Telephonic interview are becoming more and more common these days. This telephonic round of job interview is essentially considered as first screening round. In just couple of minutes the recruiters can decide whether or not to invest time and money in arranging a face to face interview round. This is not just a great opportunity for recruiter to understand your profile, but it is also your chance to know about the company and the job profile. Than you can, decide whether or not you want to proceed with the interview.

Not just that, during a phone job interview round, you are more relaxed as the interviewer could not see you and make assumptions looking at your body gestures. The main role is played by your tone and confident vocal pitch, which could help you turn a phone interview to a face-to-face meeting. To help you crack the telephonic job interview round and impress the interviewer, here we have listed down 10 commonly asked phone interview questions.

Some Quick Things to Keep in Mind While Attending a Phone Interview:

•           Remember its all about you. The recruiter has arranged the phone interview to do a quick background check and verify that you are what your resume says.
•           During a telephonic interview round expect some very technical and testing questions. The best way to face such questions is by reading and understanding the job profile thoroughly. Than prepare well in advance for the role and keeping some supporting examples ready to support your work experience and skills.
•           If you know about the phone interview before hand. Make sure to do your home work and research thoroughly about the company profile. They are sure to ask questions related to their company profile. To understand how much you know about them.
•           Prior to the interview, make sure to prepare a list of 2 to 3 questions, related to the job role or company profile.
•           Never use slangs or colloquialisms during the phone interview.
•           Here are some more telephonic job interview tips, which can come in handy, read on and get rolling.

Question 1: Tell Me about yourself or Take me through your Resume?  This is generally the first question asked in any interview, whether it’s a face to face interview or telephonic round. This question ideally means that give me an overview of who you are and what is your professional background. The answer to this question should be given in not more than 2 to 3 lines. The idea is to let them know about your work experience and technical expertise directly related to the job profile which they are offering. Than go on to give a brief summary of your personal details.

Question 2: Why do you want to work in this industry? This is yet another typical question asked in a phone interview. Interviewers are interested in understanding how keen you are about the sector or industry you choose to work in. This is where they would be judging your knowledge about the industry in question and how well you are informed about the latest happenings in that sector. The best thing to do is, read about the industry you are in, browse through the net and learn about latest happenings you can even search on twitter to see what people are tweeting about it. Sometimes this micro blogging site comes in very handy to get a quick glimpse on what people are talking about in certain sector or domain.

Question 3: Describe your current roles and responsibilities? The most important thing to remember when answering questions related to your past company or job profile is be POSTIVE. Do not talk negative about the roles or responsibilities or about the manager. The best way to respond to this answer is align your past responsibilities with the new job role. Showcase the most important skill sets you have that are required for the current job and highlight how you were responsible and what measures you took to be successful in your endeavors.

Question 4: Why do you plan to leave your current job? Most of the candidates while answering to this question, try giving a negative impression about the past company. This is absolutely wrong. Do not bad mouth your previous employer. Instead you should focus on talking about your positive experience and learning’s from your past work. Than you can further talk about your career goals and how you would want to move on to accomplish your goals. You may even include that now you feel more confident and are ready to take more responsibilities.

Question 5:  What do you like most about your current job? Keep the answer to this question short and simple. You can simply say you like work flexibility, but do not forget to quickly add that more than work flexibility you are more interested in achieving your career goals and learning new things.

Question 6: Why do you want to work with our company? While answering this question all your previous research about the company and the new job role will come in handy. Start by talking about some cool facts about the company and why you like them. Than talk about how your career goals gel well with their company’s mission statement and how both the parties can benefit with the collaboration. Lastly, talk about the new job responsibilities and how you are perfect fit for the role.