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What is the recommended way to answer the phone for a phone interview? My career services did not advise us on this. Saying "hello" is obviously unprofessional.....do I say "Hi, this is ___ speaking"?

Anonymous User wrote:What is the recommended way to answer the phone for a phone interview? My career services did not advise us on this. Saying "hello" is obviously unprofessional.....do I say "Hi, this is ___ speaking"?

Seriously?

"hi this is ___"

G'day mate.

Hello is obviously unprofessional why?

A. Nony Mouse wrote:Hello is obviously unprofessional why?

Yeah I hope it's not or else I've been answering the phone wrong for a long time

I usually do "hello, this is Ben butfucker speaking" which seems to go ok.

This really depends where you are interviewing. Need to demonstrate ties and geographic preference from the get. For example, if a Texas firm, best to answer "howdy!"; if a CA firm, "Hey its, ____, I'm stoked to be interviewing with you, brah., etc.

FSK wrote:I usually do "hello, this is Ben butfucker speaking" which seems to go ok.

TITCR.

Seriously, go with whatever is most comfortable. Don't overthink it.

I always answer, "This is FirstName." Its simple, to the point. Amusingly, answering the phone that way allows me a bit of asshole-level-smugness when autodialer operators ask, "Can I speak to FirstName?"