Video Interviewing in Recruitment

by kesthygesen on Oct 05, 2010

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Kes Thygesen and Dimitar Stoyanov from OVIA.me describe how video interviewing in recruitment is evolving for the first ever Mobile and Video Recruitment Conference in Sept' 2010. ...

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Kes Thygesen and Dimitar Stoyanov from OVIA.me describe how video interviewing in recruitment is evolving for the first ever Mobile and Video Recruitment Conference in Sept' 2010.

Other presenters on the day included Google, Roundpoint, allthetopbananas and LV.

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Video Interviewing in Recruitment — Presentation Transcript

Kes Thygesen Dimitar Stanimiroff
@kesthygesen @stanimiroff

1981- The First Mention of Video Résumés

1991- The First Webcam Photage

2002- First Job-board Video Integration

2003- Skype Brings Video Conferencing to the Masses
600 Million Users- 35% for business
12% of all international calls
1/3 of which used video

2007- Video Résumés on YouTube
1,600+
Entries under ‘Résumé’
650
Video Applications

2009 – Best Job in the World
34,629
Video Applications

2010- 20+ Companies in the Video for Candidate Screening Space
2010

The Rise of Video to Screen Candidates
Why Now?

Faster and More Widespread Internet
73 % of households now have access to a broadband internet connection

Webcams Are Standard

Familiarization with Video & Video Conferencing as a Communication Tool

Increasingly Competitive JobMarket

Why 2011 will see Video Becoming More Common to Screen Candidates
TECHNOLOGY
ENABLES
NEED CREATES
DEMAND
Supporting
infrastructure
widely available
Need to
differentiate
application
Increasing video
interviews & video
Résumés
Increasing
number of
applicants to
screen
Video
conferencing
adoption

3 Ways to screen candidates using video
Two way (real-time) video-interviewing
One way (time-shifted) video-interviewing
Video résumés / Video CVs

FiveMythsAbout Video Interviewing

“I’dratheraskquestionsbasedoncandidates’ answers…”
Structured interviews have been proven to be twice more reliable than interviews where questions are asked based on the candidates’ answers.

“Thismightbe open todiscrimination”
The EEOC (US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission), has issued a letter stating that video clips, video resumes and the like are not inherently discriminatory.

“Candidateswillfindthis impersonal”
“I think the interview was organized in a good manner. Seeing the Director face to face helped to make it more personal and I enjoyed it. Thank You Rishabh”

“Baby-boomers will never use this”
There are more people aged 45 – 54 than 25 – 34 on social media sites according to a study by pingdom.com

“Video interviews willreplacetheface-to-face interview”

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