Yeah, phone interviews can bring out the rambling because of lack of visual cues. But some are just bad at answering questions! - Kirsten loves you

This is so interesting. And illuminating. O.o - Derrick

Kirsten is right, and for some reason actually answering the question seems harder in phone interviews than in face-to-face interviews. I don't know if it's a body language/visual cues thing or what, but I've definitely noticed it as well. - Catherine Pellegrino

This IS interesting, because I prefer a phone interview and feel more confident because you don't have to worry about visual cues, eye contact, smiling at the right time, etc. A follow-up face-to-face interview seems to go so much better after a phone interview. So I'm surprised people are having trouble communicating. - Trish R

First round completed, second round tomorrow. And hopefully I can get into work tomorrow. - Derrick

What about using Skype or similar? I interviewed for my current position via Skype and I felt good about it (and apparently the search committee did, too). - Megan loves summer

Skype is huge and awesome; when I initially interviewed here, it was via Skype. Today we were blindsided by the storm so this was a back up figured out just a few hours prior to our first interview. We don't all have our work machines at home with us, others had kids and pets running around that we all couldn't necessarily corral, so this ended up working pretty well, considering we all planned to be in the office today. - Derrick