For search committee members who were present for the real interview, the tapes can be helpful in reviewing what the candidates said. Each of these situations involves a special variation on the normal interview, and for most people, each of them is also associated with heightened anxiety. In a phone interview, the greatest challenge is the absence of visual cues. It is a high-risk situation for the person being interviewed, and to be successful you have to be extremely alert to cues. You need to monitor how fast, how loud, and how clearly you are speaking, whether you are going on too long, whether people are understanding you, and whether you're actually answering the question you were asked.
Content still counts, but tone and style weigh heavily.
Try to hear the cues that you can't see. If you have the sense that someone in the meeting room is talking, stop talking and listen. Try to learn the names of the people you're talking to, and try to recognize their voices. If you can refer back to something that someone said a few minutes earlier, and if you can name the person who said it, you personalize an impersonal situation and make yourself more a part of the group. One of the greatest hazards is talking too much.