How to crush a Zoom introductory interview/networking video call?

As someone who has now completed both SA 2021 and SA 2022 recruiting over zoom, here's a few things that have worked well for me:

- Appearance: Seeing you're an Analyst 3+, I'm assuming this is a given already, but of course dress the same as you would normally for an in-person interview.  What's not quite as given--at least from the wide range of Zoom boxes I've seen across lots of virtual recruiting events this year--comes in what fills the rest of your Zoom box. While we've all been on Zoom enough at this point to know the importance of having a simple/solid background (i.e. not your bed), I've taken this one step further and have a set spot I use in a separate part of my room from my desk that's directly in front of my white wall -- since this is someone's first impression/judgment of you, you want all their attention on you and what you are expressing, so I ensured that literally all there was for them to look at on the screen was me.

- Speaking: Echoing on what is mentioned above, pay extra attention to speaking a little slower than you would in person and pausing for an extra second or two every few sentences to ensure everything you said has gone through. This is especially true for longer-winded answers (i.e. walking through your resume, etc).  

- Expression: Because only your face/chest are visible, you have to ensure that the enthusiasm or whatever other indications you would display naturally through body language when in person are now all communicated through your face.  This means smiling slightly more often and more enthusiastically, being extra cognizant of the emotions / reactions your eyes are conveying, etc.  Though this seems small, I know for a fact that this was pivotal for me in landing the offer I recently did because of the genuineness it helped me display that set me apart from many other candidates.

- Eye contact: Figuring this out really depends on the exact setup of your computer and where the camera is as compared to where the Zoom boxes will be on the screen, but I personally practiced with this by launching my Zoom's "personal meeting room" with just me in it and having that on the screen as I practiced with certain questions just talking to my computer so I'd be used to where the other person would be on the screen and finding a happy medium between direct eye contact with the camera and actually looking at the person's box to gauge their reactions to what I was saying.  

- Taking advantage of having the screen: Since my computer's camera is centered at the top of my monitor, I had a decent amount of screen space my eyes would naturally be around when both looking at the camera and at the person's Zoom box, so I got a pack of those translucent Post-It tabs that I wrote different keywords/phrases as reminders of key talking points for the interview -- translucent so they didn't actually block my view of anything on the screen, small enough that it was just a couple of words on each so as to not actually be reading full sentences on screen, and located such that my eyes would naturally move over them in the limited space I kept my gaze centered on throughout the interview and so I was never noticeably diverting my eyes in a dramatically different direction.

These may not all be applicable for everyone's specific situations, but hope it could be helpful for some :)