Yes, this! In this day and age, if you’re applying for a remote position but you’re still fumbling around, unable to smoothly join a zoom meeting with a working microphone, it doesn’t bode well.
Even a $30-50 USB mic will last a few years and blow away your laptop or built-in camera mic (though the dynamic Shure/EV mics don’t pick up everything like capacitive mics).
I got a nice high quality broadcast headset that sounded amazing but then I couldn't get the monitoring levels to work well with any combination of audio interfaces. On any given call I might have to boost my headphone volume considerably depending on the other person's audio quality but that would invariably throw off my own monitoring levels.
In the end I got a high quality gaming headset that doesn't require monitoring due to the open-back design. The microphone sounds fine but not nearly as good as the other options unfortunately.
All that to say I spent a few thousand dollars over a few months trying to solve this problem and couldn't find a great solution!
It was designed so that if your interview target didn't have good mic discipline (most people don't have any), you'd still get a usable recording. As long as you're in a roughly 12" cube in front of the mic, you'll basically be fine.
If you're spending that much money and really want a headset mic, get a countryman and wireless set. You only need to reach a few feet, so a cheap analog system should work perfectly and provide way better sound quality.
This is not true if you have a fairly recent Apple MacBook. The mic quality especially on the Pro models from the last few years is actually pretty good. I often ask people to switch to that mic in our Google Meets if they are using almost any bluetooth headphones (even high end Bose or Sony ones).
My Bose Bluetooth headphones are great except the mic. I think it’s optimized for noise cancellation so it kind of sucks for voice - and for some reason forces noise cancellation to high when using the mic so it’s feels really weird in my ears - even other peoples voices become more tinny somehow
(I already have a stand-alone mic.)