5. Three months later you will be graduating from your university and you are looking for a job. It happens the other day you got a job offer from one of your desired companies, however, the headquarters of this company is far from your dormitory. As for this condition, you are offered two choices on the interviewing; one is the telephone interview and the other is the face-to-face interview which entails a long journey to that company. Which choice would you prefer? Give specific explanation in your response.
Sample response:
As for these two choices, definitely I will choose the telephone interview.
One reason is this choice is time-saving. Staying in my dormitory, the moment the interviewer picks up my phone, the instant we can start the interview, it is very efficient. However, if having the face-to-face interview, I might spend 3-4 hours commuting from my house to that company.
The other reason is economical. Having the telephone interview, lasting 15- 20 mins, actually the cost might be no more than 2 dollars. However, if going to that company, in my city the transportation cost might be 10 dollars by subway and if by taxi, the cost might be over 100 dollars.
6. As for important business meetings, do you prefer to have face-to-face meeting or have the meetings through advanced technologies like telephones?
Sample response:
If I were the boss, I would recommend my staffs to have the meetings through something like telephones. The most remarkable reason is that this choice is very economical. When having the face-to-face meeting, if two sides are in different cities, then staffs from one company may have to go to another city, then money will be spent on airplane tickets or train tickets, booking hotels or restaurants and so on, the cost might be over hundreds of dollars. On the contrary, if having meetings through telephone, arranging a certain time, staffs from both sides just need to sit before the screen to have the meeting, the cost might be less than 5 dollars.