Interviewing technique

As my opinion Face to face interview is better than the telephonic interview.

yeah, Ms Rohini is right, telephonic interviews r convenient but its very essential to study non-verbal expression of any candidate, becoz its all abt communicating it the right way in today's scenario, in any domain. facial expression, body language, eye contact..all's needed today...so i am a game for age old personal interviews...

Although a lot is revealed over non-verbal attributes of the candidate's voice during a telephonic interview, I think, while assessing a potential personnel, it is important to get a wholistic picture of the candidate's personality, not just his verbal/non-verbal skills over the phone, unless of course, one is interested in hiring telephone operators!!

face to face interview is much better than telephonic interview in many cases. For example, I know many employees, who, when asked basics of their skills on telephonic interview, just read the answer. This type of wrong practices can be harmful.Telephonic interview also hides the nervousness and lack of confidence in an employee...

nope, getting to know and assess a potential employee's actual body language and non verbal communication skills is very important factor while interviewing

I shall also support this as candidate face reading is the best way to judge,unless for interview video confrenshing is arranged. 

very good overview!!

Excellent overview regarding telephonic interview with forsightness.

Mr.Vikram i definitely agree with you. One can't judge the person on telephone as there is a strong likelihood that he may able to pretend himself which he is not.Also as vikram said you will not be able to see the expressions or emotions which a candidates reflect in a face-to-face interview which are important to judge the confidence level and the character of a person.

So definitely traditional way of taking interviews still remain the most efficient and reliable way.

What do you say?

A telephonic interview does not give a better insight to a candidates personality. In today's competitive world, soft skills also play a vital role in selection of a candidate for the organisation.

There have been a few cases i know about where the person attending the telephonic interview is totally different than the person who turned up for a face to face final round of interview.This is too big a risk to take if selections are made based on telephonic interviews.

Candidates are very sharp now-a-days. So you can judge the candidate only by trapping him in a realistic question and his expressions and presence of mind will show you his insights. You can also change your flow of questionning according to his reactions.

I do not think it is only by the way they talk many other things are counted like their gestures, facila expression. Telephonic can work only for telecalling or BPO kind of a job.