Ten days after applying to Yodle, I got the phone screen.
The scheduling note was simple. Send a few times and a number where the recruiter could reach me.
The coordinator described it as a brief phone interview with a recruiter. I answered the same day. I said either window would work on any day that week, and I could make other arrangements if neither fit.
I offered two windows in Eastern time, nine to ten in the morning or two to three in the afternoon. I was still working in Denver, so every New York conversation had to fit around the Beatport day and the two-hour difference.
Then I asked one more question. Would the interview be technical, high level, or mostly about personality?
Those were three different conversations. Technical could mean command-line questions. High level could mean the systems and responsibilities on my resume. Personality could mean how I worked with the team. The scheduling message did not say which one was coming.
I had applied for a systems-administrator position, so a technical screen would not have been surprising. My application also covered architecture, data-center work, storage, networks, databases, projects, and leadership. A higher-level conversation could have gone through any of that.
I did not have an answer yet. I gave the recruiter the times, my cell number, and enough flexibility to arrange another window if neither option worked.
The message did not include an agenda or answer the question about the interview format. That would have to come in the next reply or on the call itself.
I closed the message with, “I look forward to hearing from you.”