![]() It shows hiring professionals like recruiters or HR managers so much more about who you are and how you will fit into their team. Tech or gadget laggards will hate this, but if you are someone who wants to use the interview as an opportunity for the company to get to know you (and be impressed by you) as a person, Skype or Google Hangout is preferable to a phone interview every time. What do you need to do? How do you get prepared? I have 9 simple hints to help you ace the interview like a pro. There’s just one hiccup they want to do it over Skype or Google Hangout. You’ve been selected for an interview! Yesssss. *Following images are other emails I have received containing similar contents asking for Google Hangout account for job briefing.You know the feeling?! You open the inbox for your usual refresher and there it is, the long awaited email has finally come through. That is why this is an opportunity for hackers to get all of your private information. One thing I know is that many of us relying on our Gmail Account to perform essential functions of our lives such as keeping ourselves on schedule, email, storing documents on google drive and linking account with social medias. I am not sure why they keep asking for it, but there must be a reason. I recommend you to do further research before agreeing to the interview on the Google Hangout. Therefore, I thought I would like to post all of the emails from different sender sent to me here so that if anyone who is reading this happens to encounter one of those emails, please take the content of the grain of salt. ![]() I have been doing further research on this, and not many people mentioned much about their Google Hangout scam experiences. Without any hesitation, I deleted those emails immediately without finish reading them nor bother to send my reply. The longer I did my research my suspicious mind starts formulating and concluding that this is one of the job hoax/scam that other wanting to taking advantage of job hunters, especially, for a new college graduate that didn't know any better.įollowing the next few days, I started to get many more of the similar emails with the same content asking me for my Google Hangout account so that they can brief me on the job details. I searched through, , and all the other job hosting websites (,, .) in which I have visited for the last two weeks and still couldn't find anything about the company. Thirdly, I went on to Google for further research on the company name. I tried to search up the name of the business throughout my inbox, trash, and spam but none of the job application confirmation came up. Although I did not keep track on all of the jobs I applied I still have the record of the companies' name for reference through my email in case I need to refresh the job description if I receive an email from the HR. Therefore, I started getting suspicious and search for the name of the company that was given by the sender. It is as if the he was trying to avoid the topic from further discussion. Secondly, when I asked for the name of the business, the sender replied my email in a very strange way. The first red flag was when the person did not mention the company/ organization name in the email. However, when I start re-reading the line, something caught my attention! When I received the email, I was quite ecstatic for the interview offer. At first, I have received an email regarding on one of the jobs I applied for through ZipRecruiter and. For the last few weeks, I have been actively searching for a new position as I am on my way back to California.
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