No Excuse for Not Using Video

I recently read an article by Mark Finn through TLNT called “6 Reasons Why Video Interviewing Will Soon Go Mainstream”. It was a great article with valid points to which many HR professionals can relate so I wanted to address my thoughts on the issues as well.

Culture Fit

Sourcing for job seekers-at a time where unemployment levels have left highly qualified candidates looking for new opportunities-is no longer the issue. The issues of today’s rebounding economy now lie in the selection process and which candidates appear to be the best cultural fit at your company. Social media has enabled hiring managers a glimpse into who these candidates might be, but then again, would you want someone judging you for a new position based off of your social media outlets? Video interviewing provides a fair look at a candidate’s personality that cannot be achieved by social media.

Affordable Out of State Options

Video interviewing technology also provides the opportunity for you to cast a wider net and reach out of state candidates that may be a fit for your company. Many candidates looking for jobs are willing to relocate so don’t limit your candidates to the x-mile radius surrounding your company because there are no travel fees with video! 

Video is the New Norm

Employers should also take notice to the evolving job seeker. This shift towards video also stems from the new generations’ comfort ability with video. Apps such as Facetime, Youtube, and Skype have made the millennials accustomed to being in front of a camera. As the workforce switches to a younger demographic, the use of this technology that doesn’t shock new job seekers only creates a more efficient hiring process.

Effortless Candidate Tracking

Don’t make it hard on yourself to remember every interviewee!  Video interviewing allows documentation of interviews so when you’re trying to remember which face goes to which resume, all you have to do is check the video!

As spring hiring begins and a new batch of recent college grads become job seekers, make your process easier on yourself by embracing TalentRooster technology, an efficient way to help you find the best talent for your company. No excuses!  

What's in a Name?

TalentRooster… We may have picked an unconventional name for our company, but it fits our unconventional technology and how we are trying to transform the hiring process.  Our name may be tricky to remember but our message is quite clear: A better return on talent.

The truth behind the name is that our technology allows candidates to “crow” louder than the rest. When a piece of paper determines a future, who wouldn’t want to be able to stand out among everyone else? There are only so many different ways to describe being a hard worker so our technology allows a candidate’s personality to be seen, something which can’t be transcribed onto paper.

As hiring managers, receiving resumes via job postings leads to a large stack of papers with scribbled notes like “good work history” or “seems personable on the phone” but after a week or two has passed, you’re left unable to distinguish your candidates from one another. Letting your talent “crow” leaves you with an online database of videos to help you put a face to the name and insures that you interview the candidates that would be the best fit for your company. Not everyone can have a name as unique as TalentRooster that stands out in your mind but each candidate is indeed unique. 

Savvy Recruiting Firm Using Video to Market Candidates

They say a picture is worth a thousand words, right?  A recruiting firm based in New Jersey is taking full advantage of this adage by using video interviews to market their candidates.  Recruiters interview hundreds of candidates but only find jobs for a select few.  Some estimates state that over 90% of candidates interviewed are never placed! 

A recruiting firm based in New Jersey decided to use TalentRooster technology to their advantage and improve these grim statistics.  Each week their internal recruiting team meets to discuss the best candidates that are still available.  Then they created this powerful marketing piece and send it out to every client and prospect in their database.  The response has been overwhelming as clients can immediately identify candidates that might be a fit for their needs.  What a powerful tool to help job seekers find employment and ensure your business is maximizing every candidates opportunity for employment. 

Robert Half Survey - More Job Interviews Going Video

Office Team, a division of Robert Half International surveyed over 500 HR professionals to learn more about their use of video and recruitng - the results are not surprising...  (Click here to read survey). 

The top three reasons why first interviews are a waste of time?  Professionalism, Communication and Image.  All three can be readily identified in a 60 second video, before a recruiter / HR professional invests any of their valuable time. Move the paradigm within your hiring process by adding TalentRooster video technology, today!

Skype Changing The Job Interview Process

This week Time magazine published an article touting the virtues of video interviewing - Yea!!  While we couldn't agree more that video is a phenomenal idea for HR / Recruiting professionals, we think the fine people at Time missed a couple crucial points....  Following are some thoughts to consider before live streaming with a candidate. 

1.  You are trapped!  If you Skype and the candidate isn't a fit - too bad.  There's at least 20 minutes you'll never get back.  With TalentRooster candidates create pre-recorded videos, answering questions specific to your needs.  Video interview can be viewed 24/7 and turned off at any time without hurt feelings.

2.  Time.  With live streaming you have to pick a mutual time that works, which is more complicated than it sounds.  Plus you have to hope that neither party is relying on a wireless network our you'll risk the connection timing out. Video interviews are HD and pre-recorded, which means they are bullet proof.  Watch them at your leisure.

3.  Quality.  Remember Max Headroom from the Pepsi ads?  With live streaming the videos are often not in real time - they lag, have audio visual sync issues and in general are hard to watch.  TalentRooster pre-recorded videos do not have any of these issues. 

Video is a great thing for HR / Recruiting professionals eager to find significant savings within their recruiting budgets.  Contact TalentRooster to learn more about this powerful tool.
Time Article

30,000 Video Interviews Uploaded

An ideological shift is taking place in HR and recruting offices thoughout the U.S.  Advancements in video technology have presented a better way to screen and source candidates.  Video Interviews are becoming a staple in recruiting as professionals enjoy the cost savings derived in both time and money.  Companies like TalentRooster.com provide the ability to see and hear job seeking candidates answer questions specific to needs before a moment of time is committed to a phone screen or live interview.  A compelling factor to note is that the average view time of each video is around 35 seconds, despite the fact that videos can be much longer. It is equally as important to note that a video is not intended to replace the face to face interview, but merely to serve as a tool to ensure only the best candidates get past the front door.  Once you've enjoyed the benefits of this powerful technology it's hard to believe that we relied on paper alone for so many years. 

To be seen or not to be seen, that is the question!

The time has come where the advice of “keep your resume to one page” has turned into “keep your video under 60 seconds.”  Not only is our world immersed in technology, but that same technology changes day by day with new versions, styles and shortcuts.  The way our world keeps turning is by having all of the answers at our fingertips and a way to instantly share those findings – and that, is exactly what a Video Interview does.  Video Interviews are an instant answer to all of an employer’s questions: 

- What have they done in the past? 

- Do they present themselves well?

- Do they have good communication skills?  

Those can all be answered by watching a short video.  Once you are finished viewing, and all signs are a “go”, forward it onto your coworkers for further approval.  It’s that convenient, we promise.  

Keeping with that theme is the method of the job search.  Job boards are becoming obsolete by Linkedin, Twitter, Facebook and even Youtube.  For job seekers, Video Interviews are a way of using technology, to find a job, while utilizing a social media site.  They can be done at your own pace, from the comfort of your own home and shared on whatever site you so choose.  Imagine, instead of sending your paper resume as an attachment in an email, you send a completed digital video profile.  You are front and center!  When all an employer has to do is click “play” and there you are streaming on their desktop…it’s a hard thing to forget!

 

Savvy Companies Using Video to Hire College Interns

 With college classes coming to an end and summer around the corner, it's time to start thinking about those summer interns.   With so many students out there wanting experience and knocking at your door to get it, what is your strategy to “thin the herd”?  With unemployment still hovering at elevated levels, internships will be even more competitive and companies will struggle to identify those best qualified.  Here's a powerful idea that can make this laborious process much easier; Video.

College students of today were born in the early 90’s, which means they’ve been exposed to technology since the day they could talk; a smart phone is an assumed accessory and a "landline" has to be explained in detail.  This generation has complete comfort with social media and video – there is no hesitancy for change.  So, why not expedite your hiring process and show potential interns your company is on board with new technology?  Everybody wants to work for companies that “get it”!

Are you specific in what you're looking for?  Are their certain majors that will work better for your business?  Not a problem.  When an intern is applying for your opening, use video and have them answer specific questions that you know are imperative to their success in your company.  Let the computer be your gate keeper and all you have to do is click, watch the video, decide and move on...really, it's that convenient.  Plus, you can view the videos any time and share them with others involved in the decision making process.

With video, you will easily identify a potential intern's communication skills, personality and experience so you can give the official "offer", faster!  

Contact TalentRooster.com to learn how your firm can implement this powerful technology

Top Five Reasons Recruiters Resist Video Interview Technology

Video interview technology seems like such a sure bet, offering a far more efficient way to source candidates and reduce recruiting costs.  This blogger is betting big that every company will use video within the next three to five years; it’s as logical as replacing your horse with a car.  Still many recruiting & HR professionals have been slow to adopt video.  Following are the primary reasons why:

1.    Education – Most people don’t know a whole lot about video technology.  Although it’s growing quickly, few have seen a demo or understand how helpful it can be.  Perhaps the beta max “video resume” forever tainted their opinion.

2.    Resistance – The belief that job seekers aren’t willing to create a video. Talk about the inmates running the asylum.  Recruiting & HR professionals spend an inordinate amount of resources sorting resumes; the idea that a “candidate won’t” shouldn’t even be on the table.  This same pattern existed when many companies began only accepting electronic resumes.  The fact is that HR Recruiting needs to make video a requirement for consideration – problem solved!

3.    Discrimination – Believe it or not, this model is not the most common objection!  Most HR & Recruiting professionals realize that social media and technology have completely changed the way company’s source talent.  The bottom line is this – if your practices are not discriminatory today, do not use video or any technology and change that philosophy.  Then again, there are those that still require their children to wait 30 minutes after eating, before going back in the pool.

4.    More Work – Already there are not enough hours in the day!  Adding video will simply take additional time that you don’t have.  In actuality, video will end up giving you more time back as you won’t be spending time with candidates that aren’t a fit. The ability to “see and hear” a job seeker answer questions of your choosing before committing to an interview, is a game changer.  Plus you can review and share the videos with other hiring managers 24/7.

5.   Job Seekers Don’t Have Access – Are you kidding me?  Even Grandma Skypes! The fact is any motivated candidate will find a way to create a video interview.  Technology today is so cheap and user friendly that anyone can do it.  It just takes a tiny bit of initiative from an applicant. 

Video interview technology is the most potent tool in talent acquisition since the advent of the job board.  TalentRooster.com has a customized solution to meet your recruiting needs.  

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