Because both will show us the human side of life.įollowing are glimpses of Zen experiences, I had during Zoom calls.I had a problem with WhatsApp consuming battery excessively. The interview experiences over video calls are such a humane experience and many times I felt Zen and Zoom are the same. I can say that the real you can peep into your video call. It is about the candidate and his or her life surrounding. Sometimes it is about chirping birds, and it's about an entirely remote village in a country we never visited. It is not only about the candidature, but it is also about the city, the rain outside, the fog it is about the traffic sounds. The video call gives a sort of context to the applicant and the background and sounds can convey a lot of information about the candidature. No journey to megacities and no overnight travel. Pandemic changed everything, the interview process, and even the essence of the interview.

Very rarely, I found an empathetic interviewer who eased my tension, and in my memory, the interviewers were like villains in the Hindi Movie with an angry face and heavy accents. (In our case it was Bangalore).įor village kids like us, the subtle emotion of an interview was 'fear', the fear of failure, and the fear of judgment. I am not joking it was literally a journey from village to city and then to a mega city. The jobs were very rare and going for an interview was a journey. Fifteen years back, an interview meant dressing in formals and talking only about positive things. I wonder how things have changed and my notion and narrative of an interview has no place in today's world. I strongly feel the entire essence of the interview process has been changed. I have been interviewing a lot many candidates over Zoom calls or Google meet and it has been an awesome experience for the last two years. Now, this has become a new norm, and we are accustomed to this remote style of work. For client meetings, interviews, and webinars, we all use one or the other tools for video meetings.

Zoom calls, Google Meets, and Team Meetings have become part and parcel of our lives.

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