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Many recruiters use "telephone interviews" as the first stage of a job interview process. A telephone interview is an effective way for a firm to screen many candidates quickly and with the lowest overall expenditure of any type of interview. This is why companies use this style of interview so frequently.
What is a Telephone Interview?
A telephone interview is a pre-scheduled interview that takes place between a recruiter and a candidate who has applied for a job role that takes place over the telephone. Telephone interviews are usually fairly straightforward and are mainly used to screen poor candidates out of an interview process, rather than to test high quality ones. Often, all recruiters will be looking for from candidates during a telephone interview will be a calm, confident telephone manner and an intelligent set of responses to interview questions.
Graduate level telephone interviews are usually short - most last less than 30 minutes - and feature a mix of competency questions and questions about your CV, work experience and education. BATE
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Although a telephone interview is relatively straightforward, even highly capable candidates can be rejected at this early interview stage if they are inadequately prepared or not used to speaking in a professional manner over the phone. For many candidates, the whole situation can feel unnatural - without eye contact it can be difficult to build rapport and display a strong personality with your interviewer.
Practice is useful, especially if you haven't worked in an office or used a telephone to talk to clients in previous jobs. If you can, try getting friends or family members to call you and ask interview questions. Candidates who don't think they'll have any trouble with this style of assessment are often the ones that have difficulties.
It is important to find out as much as you possibly can about a company, and a job role, before any type of interview; a telephone interview is no exception. You may receive some information from your prospective employer, but make sure you also visit their website, competitor websites, read relevant trade press and keep aware of current industry specific commercial awareness issues. Be aware of the size of a company, its structure, its products and services, its markets, competitors and future plans.
Plan for possible questions you may be asked before your interview. Consider answers you can give, including good experience examples for competency based questions. Also spend time thinking up questions you would like to ask your interviewer. Asking your own questions shows you are interested in the company and job role. For example, ask questions that are relevant to you, but not questions that it would be easy to find out the answers to with a little research on a company website, during your telephone interview.
How to Have a Successful Interview
Many candidates find it hard to adapt to telephone interviews and struggle to get into interview "mode" when talking to interviewers over the telephone. This is not good enough; you need to be as professional and presentable as you would in a face to face situation from the moment your interviewer calls.
Although it may sound strange, putting on smart, interview style clothes before your scheduled telephone interview can help you to focus and get into a professional mindset. Find a quiet place (a study with a desk is best) to answer the phone and put yourself to work studying some relevant material on your company or industry before the scheduled call so that your mind is already focussed on work.
Make sure you smile when answering your phone. If you force yourself to smile, you physically become more relaxed and as a consequence your voice will sound more confident, friendly and assertive. If you do this, you will come across much better when speaking.
Standing up, rather than sitting down, can be a good way to keep your confidence and enthusiasm levels high. Professional salesmen use this trick to keep them focussed and alert when making high-pressure sales calls. The best salesmen also recommend using a headset when making, or taking, important calls. Doing so helps you concentrate on talking and thinking, rather than holding your phone, and allows you to use your hands to complement your responses.
Finally, make sure you keep a copy of your CV, covering letter, application form, and any notes you may have made on the company in question to hand.
Common Telephone Interview Mistakes
Candidates that fail telephone interviews often do so because of poor preparation or making minor mistakes. Some common mistakes are discussed below - make sure you steer clear of them!
Using Slang
Candidates who would never use colloquialisms in face to face interviews often accidentally use slang during a telephone interview without even realising it, because they are so used to using the phone to talk to friends. You should never use slang in any kind of interview situation.
Arranging Your Interview
Many candidates arrange their interviews without adequately considering when they will next be free. It is essential to properly plan when and where you will be when organising your telephone interview. Otherwise, you may find yourself in a loud, busy place, when your interviewer calls.
Answering The Phone
Your telephone interview begins from the moment you answer the telephone and ends only when the conversation, questions and your goodbyes have been completed. Even your opening "good afternoon" or "good morning" message should be outgoing, engaging and enthusiastic. Aim to impress your interviewer at every stage.
Forgetting Your Interview
Candidates who forget a scheduled telephone interview are destined to fail. If a recruiter calls a candidate who appears to be confused, unprepared and disorganised, they will be unlikely to invite them for a face to face interview.
Being Interrupted
Almost as bad as forgetting your interview, is organising your interview at a time, or in a place, where you will be interrupted. Ensure wherever you want to take your telephone interview is a place where you will be left in peace.
Charging Your Telephone
If using a mobile phone, remember to charge it on the day of your interview. If your phone cuts out, or starts beeping during conversation, you risk irritating your interviewer or losing your train of thought.
Time Limits
In most telephone interviews time is strictly limited; you may even feel as though you are being rushed when answering questions. Sometimes time is so strictly limited that interviewers will stop candidates talking even though they have not completely finished answering a question. This is usually because the candidate has already answered the question well enough and the interviewer has decided that they do not need any further information, and to save time they can move on to the next question.
Don't be worried to take a little time to consider questions, or your responses to them, before answering. Although time is limited, your interviewer should understand that candidates need to take some time to produce top quality responses.
Telephone Interview Questions
Telephone interviews are typically conducted by a member of a firm's human resources (HR) team, or outsourced to a specialist organisation (such as a recruitment consultancy or job assessment organisation). Questions will usually focus on: your CV, work experience and academic history; your motivations for applying to the firm in question, the particular industry and job role; your knowledge of the firm itself (i.e. competitors, global reach, future plans); and, your skills, qualifications and competencies.
Typical Telephone Interview Questions
It is less likely that a telephone interview would include technical questions, brain teaser questions or commercial awareness style questions (although you should still prepare for these questions, just in case).
Example Interview Questions
Typical telephone interview questions may include:
- Why do you want to work in [industry in question]?
- Why do you want to be a [job role in question]?
- What are you most looking forward to in this role?
- Tell me about yourself/take me through your CV.
- Where would you like to be in five years? What do you think you will be doing?
- Why should we hire you?
- What are your greatest achievements?
- What motivates you?
- Tell me about a time you have led a team.
- What was your degree grade? Were you happy with this?
Where possible, always use a different example when answering each question.
- Click here for a more comprehensive list of possible graduate level interview questions.
How Should I Conclude a Telephone Interview?
Part of reason why firms conduct a telephone interview is to find out how keen candidates are about working at their company and in the particular job role applied for. It is important to be enthusiastic throughout your telephone conversation, but make a particular effort to be forthcoming at the close.
Your interviewer may be able to tell you at the end of your conversation if they would like to see you for a face to face interview. If they do not, there is no harm in asking when you might hear from them regarding the next interview stage. If they do, thank your interviewer and ask them for some further details, such as: when, where and with whom your interview will be; if there is anything you should bring with you to the interview, what the interview format will be and how many people you will be up against; and, what are the crucial skills and competencies the employer is looking for in employees.
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Interview Tips
- Relax - telephone interviews are more concerned with finding out about your personality than your answers to questions.
- Do not use slang or colloquialisms.
- Try to sound confident and capable.
- Make sure you are polite throughout the conversation.
- Review company information before the interview to settle you into the right mindset.
- Practice - ask family or friends to call you and ask interview style questions, before the real thing.
Further Information
For further related information see:
- General Interview Advice
- Competency Interviews
- Competency Questions
- Common Interview Questions
- Questions to ask your Interviewer
To discuss a telephone interview for a specific company, visit the WikiJob forum.


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We're porting our app to Linux and trying to get it to run well with a couple HD monitors. One monitor is 1366x768p@60Hz and the other is 1920x1080p@49Hz. I've followed various NVIDIA advice to create modelines for these monitors which exactly match the timings being used in Windows.
The xorg.conf and nvidia-bug-report.log are attached.
My application is using JOGL (Java/OpenGL). We ordinarily call gl.setSwapInterval(1) to limit our frame rate to monitor refresh, to avoid tearing. When I show a trivial scene in Windows, I get 60FPS. If I call gl.setSwapInterval(0) to allow gl to run as fast as it can I get 300-340 FPS.
Now running that same app in Linux on the same hardware, I'm getting 55FPS, regardless of whether I ask GL to wait for vsync or not. It consistently tears since 55!=60 (on the first monitor), and 55!=49 (on the second monitor).
I've tried export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1 and =0, and it has no effect.
It seems that *something* is trying to sync to vblank, and that something is convinced that we're running at about 55Hz.
Any ideas?
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You can only sync to one display device at a time. If you're using two, and they do not have the same mode, I'd expect there to be tearing on whichever isn't being sync'ed to.
However, according to your bug report, you're only using a single display device. Are you stating that if you export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1 and run glxgears you're seeing a FTPS number significantly larger than 60?
Also, 1.0-9629 is no longer supported, please retest with 1.0-9755.
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Sorry if I wasn't clear. I'm only using one display device at a time. I'm just seeing the same problem with each monitor when I test them separately.
I just ran glxgears and it reports crazy high FPS numbers regardless of the setting of that environment variable. Note that this is inconsistent with my JOGL application, which is running at a steady 55FPS, regardless of the setting.
I'll look into updating my drivers, and try these tests again...
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If updating the driver does not help, I'd like to see the output from 'env'.
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OK, I'm finally running the latest drivers and the behavior I'm seeing is still weird. To keep things simple let's first figure out why glxgears is running at 18,000FPS despite the fact that I have __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1.
I've attached the new debug log, along with the output of env. Note that I'm doing export __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1 early in the boot process, before the NVIDIA drivers are even loaded.
So, using the latest drivers, what is the magic formula so that glxgears will report 60FPS on my 60Hz monitor?
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What happens if you run the following command (all in one line):
__GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1 glxgears
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sh-3.1# __GL_SYNC_TO_VBLANK=1 glxgears
92349 frames in 5.0 seconds = 18465.003 FPS
sh-3.1# exit
Script done on Thu Mar 22 14:27:19 2007
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On your system, is glxgears a binary or a shell script?
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Binary. file glxgears says:
ELF 32-bit LSB executable, Intel 80386, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked (uses shared libs), stripped
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You're running this locally, not over ssh or over an exported X display?
Beyond that, I'm not sure what else to suggest, as no one else is reporting this problem, and I cannot reproduce it here either.
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Yup, locally.
Since the whole point of this exercise is to create a bootable USB linux distro (I'm using SLAX as the starting point, which is Slackware 11 with an updated kernel and linux live scripts), I can snail mail you a USB key you can boot to see the issue.
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Whenever the user adds a new CI, a new history/activity record is created. The creation of the history/activity is called by a Process where the sc.activity is executed. It even displays a message so that you'll know that the Process was executed.
I created a file import for a CI. I added a trigger (After Update) where I call this Process so that a history/activity record will be created. It is even displaying the message during file import so I know that the Process is being called.
But no history/activity record is ever created.
I even displayed the value of $L.file and $L.file.save and they all have contents. I even compared its value when doing a manual entry. Everything is the same.
But I am stumped that the activity record is not created during file import. Search forums but can't find anything useful.
Would really appreciate any ideas/thoughts on this one.
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verify whether actually activity is generated or not?
It might be possible that it is not attaching to you CI record.
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Sand Grouse
These little birds are very common but, as you see from the photo, are very difficult to spot. They will stay stock still until you are about to tread on them, at which point, they will fly into the air with as much commotion as befits such a small bird.
After the theatrical entertainment of the previous evening, I was relieved that there was no second performance. The marula fruit remained fastened to the trees and the Clog Family von Genet kept their slippers on and rested. As such, I had a remarkably full night's sleep, having hit the pillow at an extremely modest 21h30.
However, it was now 06h15 and the alarm hadn't gone off. It was still dark but there were sounds. From the direction in which my feet were facing, the snuffling was alarming enough, but it was the low rumbles, sounds of breaking branches and general scary behaviour inches from my head that was my main worry. Peering into the gloom, I saw an elephant standing right outside my veranda, almost at the foot of my bed. I didn't even need to guess what was making the sound by my head - I just hoped I wouldn't do anything that would cause the larger elephant to do something rash and demolish the trees supporting my lodge!
I was definitely awake now so rose, attended to my needs, washed and even managed to dress myself without any adult supervision but I couldn't leave the lodge due
There were two groups of impala on this morning's walk. This was the harem of a very elegant male and, not far away, was a bachelor group. Apparently, one from this latter group will occasionally attempt to gain power over the harem, the ousted male having to get used to life in a different herd!
to the unknown whereabouts of a pair of pachyderms. Straining my ears, I managed to convince myself that the only sounds were flora related and gingerly left my lodge.
Egged on by the turtle doves stressing the importance to "look HARder", I did and decided that the rather noisy francolin were either stifling the sound of hiding elephants or there were none. Relieved, I made it to the main lodge, climbed the steps, ordered a pot of coffee and had my fill of the sesame seed snacks. Knowing that breakfast would be much later, I forced down a couple of spare!
By now, the routine of heading to the mekoro was becoming second nature and so it was that we found ourselves gliding silently across the carpeted water to our next wildlife adventure.
Having beached the mekoro, we headed along paths slicing through tall grass before being brought to a stop by Poison. Peering into the distance, we tried to spot the impala. Nothing. The Zebra? Nothing! Surely not a lion? No, not a lion! Down by our feet though was a couple of Sand Grouse! Not only were these birds very well camouflaged, they were also
White Headed Vulture
"What's that in that palm?", shouted Jill. "Where?", we replied peering into the distance. Binoculars out and we still couldn't see. Finally, taking a photo at full zoom and then enlarging the image on the back of the camera yielded our results. A sharp-eyed Jill had spotted a White Headed Vulture, recently identified as a vulnerable species.
remarkably statuesque. Even though we were standing almost on top of them, they were difficult to spot.
Moving on through the grass and leaving the grouse to graze, we were met by the beautiful sight of an Impala harem in the early morning sun. The dominant male was keeping an eye both on us and his harem and, as we shortly noticed, a second herd of bachelor impala. He was clearly concerned that his dominance may be called into question and had decided that we offered a lower threat. Consequently, we managed to get relatively near for the close-up shots.
Whilst we were gazing at the impala, Jill, my fellow Australian traveller, pointed out an object sitting in a distant palm tree. We had no idea whether it was a bird or simply a piece of tree. The binoculars were of little use but a judicial use of telescopic lens provided the answer - a White Headed Vulture. These are relatively rare birds and Poison was almost leaping about at this sighting.
We continued onwards with our quest to find lion. As bateleur circled overhead, we eventually came across another herd of impala
a herd of
Zebra and Impala
This little foal didn't know it but it was acting to type. Zebra are surprisingly intelligent and closely shadow wildebeest, knowing that lions prefer the latter. I presume that, as there were no wildebeest in the vicinity, Impala was a useful substitute!
zebra together. There was a maturing foal amongst the group, accompanied by an entourage of oxpeckers. The zebra didn't appear to mind their passerine passengers, though I couldn't tell whether the impala were also carrying additional luggage.
The sun was now getting serious about providing some heat and so we stopped to quench our thirst with the cool liquids that Colin had been relentlessly carrying in his little blue freezer box. The brief respite in animal spotting gave us all the opportunity to look at the wider vista. Bush and scrub were spread before us, intermingled with African Umbrella trees (or Thorn Acacia, to be more precise), palm trees and termite mounds; a paradise for the birds and animals that call this home.
By now, the sun was really showing who was boss and we'd also begun to head back towards our mekoro and breakfast. Jill's keen eye once again spied a tiny bird, the Little African Bee Eater, perched on a Camel Thorn. We stood and watched as it waited, before launching at some unsuspecting insect before returning to its chosen branch, to repeat the whole saga again.
Animal sightings after that were scarce to say
Zebra with Foal
the least. In a small clearing, we spotted some lion paw prints in the sand and identified a flattened area where something had slept overnight. We even stepped over some hyena droppings, but that was the only sighting we had of those animals.
Returning to our mekoro, the gentle journey back through the water-lilies was only disturbed by a delay at the lodge caused by a couple of elephant standing in the water and blocking our way. After some careful work in the rhythm section by Colin and Poison, the passive pachyderms were persuaded to peruse a different patch of papyrus, thus enabling us to return and feast upon lashing of bacon and egg - our belated breakfast.
Leaving the Magical Kingdom
Having enjoyed a breakfast with the squirrels, we retreated to our respective lodges to pack. Needless to say, my carrier bag didn't require much attention and so I returned to the main lodge in short order and sat reading the various magazines and articles from the shelves.
Bidding our farewell to Amy (the host), we took our last trip across the water before arriving at the timber tree house that purported to be a terminal
building! Colin and Poison joined us as we carried our bags to the little airstrip where we were greeted by the sight of a slightly larger plane for our return trip. Larger but not newer! The BN-2 Islander first flew in 1965 and I wouldn't be surprised if this particular one was about the same age! Still, there was little alternative and so we joined the locals and the nine of us made the trip back into Maun. Brian sat next to the pilot with clear instructions to keep his knees away from the controls - we didn't mind looking at the elephants, impala and hippo from the air, but we certainly didn't want to see them any closer than that!
Returning to terra firma, we taxied to a petrol pump and the pilot cut the engines. The ground crew rushed forward, each step being meticulously thought out as he brought forward his supermarket trolley which functioned as the baggage truck! Loading the few bags from the plane onto the trolley, we followed him across the apron into the terminal, where we were reunited with our guide, Alfred.
Journey to another Planet
Alfred had a beaming smile as
Little Bee Eater
This is the smallest African Bee Eater and, although nobody told this one, they are commonly seen in pairs or groups. Clearly, this was a favourite perch and this little bird sat, watched, waited, launched, lunged, lunched and returned. Repeatedly.
he shook our hands and welcomed us back to Maun. He'd declined to give too much away when he'd left us a couple of days previously, yet he was now engrossed in our experiences of the Delta. What was it like? Did we enjoy it? What were our thoughts? Did it surpass our expectations? What were our expectations? Questions, questions, questions - and we were all clamouring to provide the answers!
Alfred warned us that we had a 250km journey ahead of us to our next destination. He also warned us that we'd be passing through several Foot and Mouth zones. However, in anticipation of the night ahead, he'd also bought lots of meat of various types so that we could have a barbeque.
Stowing our luggage in the truck, we clambered aboard, taking up our previous seating positions and settled down for the journey. As we had heard no news about the results of the election in presidential elections in Zimbabwe, Alfred had purchased the Sunday Times. As we needed to cross the border at Kasane in a day or so, we really needed to understand whether that would indeed be a possibility or even how long
Chief's Island
Our camp was sited on the edge of Chief's Island, the interior of which was a mixture of scrub and bush, dotted with both palm trees and termite mounds.
it could take.
Our departure from Maun was signalled by a large poster announcing that we'd missed a 24-hour Bimbo opportunity. To be honest, we'd actually eaten very well over the previous few days, so none of us was too upset. However, we were upset when we reached the next Foot and Mouth checkpoint.
Being instructed to stop, Alfred was asked to open the trailer. The rest of us took all our shoes and headed for the disinfectant matting. Alfred dutifully produced our meat for the barbeque and, expecting no further ado, was rather put out when instructed that the meat would have to be destroyed. We were not permitted to take it into the next zone. It was highly unlikely that the meat was in any way infected, but rules is rules and we needed to obey them. Reluctantly, Alfred did the right thing and disposed of our evening meal, completed all the resulting paperwork and drove forwards to pick us up.
As we continued, he was very philosophical commenting that this was Africa and they were only doing their job. We were not quite so philosophical pointing out that we were now without an evening
Preparing the In-flight Catering
We picked up our return flight in the early afternoon. As we arrived at the airstrip by mokoro, our plane flew in to land. Immediately, the ground crew went to work, one of the first items addressed was the in-flight catering!!!
meal and we were still in the middle of the Kalahari!
Continuing across the desert, we eventually arrived in Gweta - "The Place of the Bullfrogs" - and were greeted by a sight very familiar to those from Australia and New Zealand - a giant version of something of local relevance, whether it be a Wellington Boot, a Kiwi Fruit or a 20 foot Carrot! For there, by the side of road, was a giant Anteater surreptitiously advertising the Kalahari Surf Club!
Being almost as far from the sea as you can be in Southern Africa, Alfred pulled off the road onto a sand track and we found ourselves in Planet Baobab, a grove of eight baobabs (approximately 4000 years old) and a number of traditional rondavels painted with traditional designs (approximately 4 years old).
Reaching our rooms, the immediate impression was one of darkness; the internal lighting wasn't the most efficient, although I did eventually discover a second light switch which provided better lighting. Unpacking my carrier, I dragged a chair outside into the sun and sat relaxing in the last rays of the day.
As evening fell, I retired to the bar, in which
Flight from the Okavango
Our return flight required a slightly larger aircraft than that of our inbound trip. In addition to the three of us, a number of locals were making a trip into Maun, bolstering the numbers.
Alfred was already several bottles ahead of me. The centrepiece was a huge wrought iron chandelier comprising beer bottles underneath which we could relax in black and white cow skin chairs. We opted to prop the bar up!
Brian and Jill joined us a little later and, whilst we could still string words together, we headed to the table area for our evening meal. Not the world's most delightful meal followed, but bearing in mind that we'd had our planned meal confiscated several hours previously, we were pleased to have had anything - nearly!
After the events of the day, my antipodean travellers retired to their lodge shortly after we'd exhausted the dining opportunities whilst Alfred and I returned to the bar to look into the possibility of a liquid dessert. The possibility turned into a certainty and the dessert turned into seconds, thirds and a number of recounts.
Having generally retired at 21h30 over the previous few evenings, it was with some surprise that Alfred and I were still talking and drinking at 22h30. Whether the words had any meaning though, we'd never know. Making our way to our individual lodges turned out to be a
A 24-hour Bimbo Experience?
What more can I say?
very interesting and almost dangerous exercise as the path was very uneven and the lodges all looked the same. Even though the lodges were numbered, we couldn't remember our numbers and even if we could, they weren't obvious! I eventually found mine by peering into the shadows and checking the key worked in the lock!
Lighting the incense burners which would keep the mosquitoes away, I climbed into bed, crawled under the mosquito net and ensured it was all tucked in. There, in the light of my lamp, I watched the little insects crawl over the sheets and decided that there was little I could do! I smothered myself in mosquito repellent and snuggled down to a night on Planet Baobab.
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Page Naming
Good page naming is the bedrock of easier content analysis and user path analysis. Does the page name make sense? Do you have page URLs or document titles that are self-explanatory and make sense to ordinary users?
If you have complex or dynamically generated URLs, can you change them to something that is easier to understand? If you have a lot of extraneous parameters in the page URLs, such as session IDs, have they been stripped from the data collection so they don't appear in the reports as different pages?
Content Grouping
Is your content organized into logical and coherent groupings? Do you have neat folder structures on your site that allow you to group content easily, or do you need to create a customized approach to grouping pages into content sections? How will this work be maintained?
Conversion Events
Are conversion events well defined? Are all the important conversion events on the site being tracked? Do you need to customize parts of the system to recognize certain key events that aren't being captured automatically?
If you run an e-commerce site, are the orders being tracked properly? How does the data compare against your order processing systems? Are there any obvious differences and, if so, why?
Campaign Tracking
Do you need to track campaigns in the system? If so, what structure and detail do you need for your campaign reports? How will you add the relevant tracking parameters to your landing page URLs and keep them up to date?
Internal Search
Do you have an internal search engine on your site? If so, is it being tracked? Are you capturing the keywords that are being typed in and analyzing the results?
This isn't an exhaustive list. Depending on your business, you may need to focus on some other issues. However, these are some of the common problems that we encounter in our work with clients. If you're focused on getting these things right, you're well on the way to having good quality data to work with.
Neil is off today. This column was originally published December 22, 2009 on ClickZ.
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According to a study, done by the Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM), industrialists feel the current situation has made the general election hard to predict.
Investors, industry leaders and economists are worried about the prospect of an unstable government, which may be forced to "follow more of the populist and left of the centre policies," irrespective of the party or a coalition that will be in power.'Desperate fora turn-around'
Industry leaders feel that a fractured mandate is not a "good development for the economy at a time when we are getting desperate for a turnaround."
The emergence of the anti-graft AAP has increased the prospect of the new government departing from reform measures. "On the one hand, there would be increasing expenditure due to populist and mega schemes in the social sector, and on the other, the taxation kitty would not be robust enough in the face of the slowdown," says the study.'Strong party needed'
Regional aspirations and populist measures will create road blocks, the study says, though the country has learnt to live with coalition governments in the past 15 years. What is needed is a strong party to head the government, supported by smaller parties that are committed to a strong growth model.Call for transparent governance
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Vito Belfort? I know him. He's a goombah from back home.
Jacob Schlottke---Gone too soon, and the world is a little less bright because of it. RIP, brother.
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