Easy questions about my skills and salary expectations. Since my current skills didn't align with the job description, the interviewer was interested to know why I would be looking for a job in a different field.

Interview requires face to face interview but one person is on video conference. Interview time limit one hour. 48 minutes of interview focused on STAR interview questions - behavioral assessment. Interviewees are not the supervisors or in the department you are interviewing for. Comments forthcoming from an extremely seasoned professional in this business, as an employee and manager. Take aways. 1) If you are an external candidate and applying for anything other than call center or field tech, 90% of the time you have been interviewed to meet HR's required number of external candidates. Cox promotes from within. 2) A face to face interview with a teleconference without potential immediate supervisors means there is a reason you need to be seen - implications here speak for themselves. 3) Other than HR and three minutes in the beginning of the interview, there is no focus on your work experience and skills. The STAR interview process is a tool that assists in determining a candidate's interpersonal skills and work habits. 48 minutes out of 60 minutes, 80% of the interview being STAR focused and not skill focused, sends a message that skill is not the primary objective in the hiring process. In most high level organizations in this industry, the STAR process weighs no more than 20% of the interview score. The implication here is that the emphasis is how a candidate fits into the position as a person and not an employee. 4) If you have multiple interview opportunities with multiple companies, this information should be helpful to allow you to prioritize.