A job interview is a conversation between an employer and a prospective employee with a view to assessing the suitability of the candidate for job offer.

While a job chat is also a form of conversation with a prospective applicant. Albeit similar, there are a number of differences between the two.

However, before highlighting the differences, it is important to caveat that both terms are sometimes used to mean the same thing. Your sms or email invite could describe it as chat but it could end up being a full scale interview. So it is necessary to bear that in mind.

Now, let’s look at the differences where the recruiter does not intend to use them to mean the same thing.


1. Order: Where a recruitment process involves both interview and chat, interview usually comes first.


2. Formality: Interview is usually more formal than chat. Some light, informal questions that were not asked during interview could be asked during chat – things like your marital status, number of children, state of origin etc. Some other exciting things about you are also asked during chat. While decisions are hardly made based on these questions, they are usually asked in a friendly manner, depending on the curiosity of the personnel chatting with you. While you could also give light answers, you should never forget to drop your guard too low. Maintain some level of formality, still.


3. Decision stage: In most cases, when you reach the chat stage of a recruitment process, you have gotten the job. While a candidate can still be dropped at chat stage, it is hardly the case. In 80% of cases, chats are just formality just to tick the recruitment steps or to let the senior management know that someone is joining. However, this does not mean anyone cannot be dropped during chat.


4. Who to meet: The party in the company you are meeting during chat is usually a senior person, like CEO or or other executive management staff like Group Head of HR, Group Head of the unit you are being invited for etc. They are in most cases more senior to the person/people you met during interview.


5. Number of people: Interview could be panel or one-on-one, but chat is most times one-on-one.


6. Where to meet: While interview usually happens at a meeting room or conference room, chat most times happens at the office of the person to chat with the candidate like the CEO’s office, Group HR Manager’s office etc.


7. Purpose: Sometimes, chat could be to thrash out some issues that were not discussed during interview, after decision to employ you has been made or reached advanced stage. So issues like salary may come up during chat. Some other times, chat could be set up as a tie breaker. Maybe two of you tied or are strongly considered for the job, chat may be set up to have the CEO or any other top guy talk to the two of you and settle who to hire.


8. Too big for interview: Sometimes chat is used at top executive level, especially when you are a highly sought-after executive or someone with some specialized skills. Whether it is the company that approaches you or you are the one that applied, some companies use chat as a way of having their senior executive talk to you rather than formal interview. You could be invited for a lunch with their CEO or CFO at a top hotel or even at a venue abroad like Dubai or London, where the company’s executive sits with you, semi-formally after lunch, to have you talk about your experience, your vision for the company, their plans etc.


Again, it is important to state that chat and interview are sometimes used interchangeably, but where a distinction is made in the process, the above are the differences.

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One stresses you out and the other is a professional discussion.

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Nigerians are funny and awkward!!even after an interview and chat and 2nd,3rd,4th,they will still employ their families and close relatives!!wrongs hands for the good job and after few years,the company income will decrease!!They know the problem but will sack the good ones that resumes early and very effective!!!!pooh!!!!US,thanks for giving us hope!!!submit ur resume and they tell you to resume!!!

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Chats are mostly done in big companies, they usually have 3 stages of recruitment. 1. written interview. 2. oral interview. 3. chat with the CEO.

the 3rd stage is more of a personality assessment.

Thanks for this

Seriously? On such an thread? The average Nigerian youth is just.....smh

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In Nigeria.. You see things like introduction, traditional marriage, church marriage court marriagr, honey moon, etc.. Onto marriage..

Then onto job, you see online application, online test, physical test, physical interview, group discussion, presentation, chat with CEO, chat with hr, final interview, medicals, taking of letter. in fact sef you fit just give up because all these stages takes months.

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beautiful writeup there

Job interview is gradually fading since buhari's inception because of his inclination in nepotism!!!!

Job chat/ brief is a GNLD keyword

in Nigeria it will go like this, ...online interview, then written interview, second written interview, then oral interview, 2rd oral interview, and then this other one, chat. This is just a two year employment process.

Ist test, 2nd test, phone chat, Facebook chat, 1st interview, 2nd interview, meet the MD, Medical, introduction to staff.....

Wetin happen now! At the end of the day, dem no go pay you pass 40k

SIMPLYkush:
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Majesticniyi:
Seriously? On such an thread? The average Nigerian youth is just.....smh

I don't like that phrase you used... Just a single odd off comment and you just go "the average Nigerian youth is just"...everyone must not take tins too seriously like you... Buh generalizing it on average make you on the same par of foolishness wif the man you're accusing

No so

Job interview : this can be defined as when you are being called to test your abilities and know if you are capable of being employed.. This is usually the first step in job application process..

While Job chat can be defined as a part of the job when you are called to talk about your salary and know more about your job description... ....

And I guess you coming on to call someone foolish makes you wiser...

Tiffbuxas:
I don't like that phrase you used... Just a single odd off comment and you just go "the average Nigerian youth is just"...everyone must not take tins too seriously like you... Buh generalizing it on average make you on the same par of foolishness wif the man you're accusing

Benz4pimp:
Nigerians are funny and awkward!!even after an interview and chat and 2nd,3rd,4th,they will still employ their families and close relatives!!wrongs hands for the good job and after few years,the company income will decrease!!They know the problem but will sack the good ones that resumes early and very effective!!!!pooh!!!!US,thanks for giving us hope!!!submit ur resume and they tell you to resume!!!

Yea very true, I experienced the same thing with British American tobacco (BAT) in the Ibadan, after writing series of test, interviews and I did a presentation too (thank God I was a little bit good on power point ),they said they will get back to three of us that made the final list
after several months of not get back to us, I later found out that the post was given internally to one of the HR cousin. why waste our time

God help us, now to leave this country, I don't care how many times I buy visa card from gt bank

US embassy help me o

Majesticniyi:
And I guess you coming on to call someone foolish makes you wiser...

smh...it doesn't work on me...take your distorted view somewhere else...cuz if u read carefully u wud know y I called him dat

Dear Sir/Ma,

Sequel to your application for a POSITION, we are pleased to invite you for a chat as follows:

Date: Tuesday 21st of May, 2019 or Wednesday, 22nd of May, 2019. (Please choose a day)

Time: 9:00 a.m or 1:00pm (you can come either between 9:00am to 11am or 1:00pm to 3pm)

Venue: BeeBeeJump Int'l Limited, Novel House, Plot 3, Block J, Otunba Jobi Fele Way, Alausa CBD, Ikeja, Lagos.

You are to come with a copy of the following:

1. CV

2. Valid Means of Identification

3. Android Phone

4. Credentials

Kindly confirm your availability by acknowledging this mail and stating your preferred date and time.

Best Regards

Marian Oyanoghafo

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