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Category Archives: Video Interviews
4 Types of Video Content Your Business Needs Now
So you’ve read about the benefits of a video recruiting strategy, and now you’d like to encourage candidates to send video content. You’d also like them to feel open and comfortable about submitting video resumes, and participating in video interviews. The best way to accomplish this is for your business to create its own video content. Video content bolsters your online recruiting efforts by setting an example for recruits, and by furthering your company brand. Here are 4 types of video content that your business needs to attract more talent online. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to Continue reading
How Do I Video Interview…Candidates With a Negative Digital Footprint?
Every candidate comes with their own set of unique interviewing challenges. That’s why we’re tackling how to video interview different types of job seekers with this how to series. Today, we’ll be talking about how to connect with job seekers with a less than ideal digital footprint. Who hasn’t Googled themselves from time to time? Doing a quick Google search of a top candidate’s name is just second nature in today’s digitally-connected world. The online presence of your top talent can certainly tell you something about the individual’s personality and responsibility level. In today’s world, leaving your Google results to Continue reading
Video Interviews for Customer Facing Jobs
Working in customer service requires a specific set of communication and conflict-resolution skills. An employer is aware that in order to fill the positions that interact directly with customers, they must seek candidates with experience and poise. When using video interviews, whether during the screening process or to interview a long-distance candidate, what are some basic questions you can ask to vet your candidates for the best of the bunch? Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
Video Interviews and Candidate Experience
We know that video interviews can make life easier for hiring managers. Video interviews are convenient to schedule, they’re recorded and easy to review, and they provide a time-saving replacement for the phone interview. However, video interviews also impact candidate experience. Job seekers who use video interviews share in the convenience of scheduling, with the added benefit of nixing travel time. Video interviews also offer candidates a more relaxed interview experience, as they get to choose their surroundings. In a one-way video interview, candidates may even be able to rehearse answers to questions before submitting their responses. Talk about peace Continue reading
Credit Checks and The Video Interview: Know the Laws
In today’s competitive marketplace, employers are looking for ways to find out more about the job seekers applying for an open position. One of the tools employers are using to connect with great candidates and find out more personal information is the video interview. Another tool, and one with some tricky legal restrictions, is the credit check. Hiring managers are using credit checks to see if potential employees are responsible when managing their own finances. A candidate with a bad credit score can be a warning sign for employers, especially if this candidate is looking to land a job dealing Continue reading
How Do I Video Interview… Unemployed Candidates?
Every candidate comes with their own set of unique interviewing challenges. That’s why we’re tackling how to video interview different types of job seekers with this how to series. Today, we’ll be talking about how to connect with unemployed candidates in the video interview. Too many companies automatically discount candidates who are currently without a job. But perhaps these unemployed candidates are exactly the kind of motivated job seekers you need in your organization! Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
3 Ways to be an Effective Video Interviewer
When you’re actively trying to fill positions within your company and you’re looking to do so quickly, it’s very easy to fill your schedule with interviews and meetings to discuss interviewees. Doing so, you lose company time by bringing candidates into the office and your own valuable time by trying to squeeze in too many interviews. Video interviews can be a great help with this. They are an excellent way to streamline the screening process with candidates. In particular, here are three things to consider in order to make a video interview more effective. Like this article? Subscribe to our Continue reading
How Mainstream Are Video Interviews in the Hiring Process?
It’s no secret we at Spark Hire see the video interview as the hiring tool of the future. But has the video interview really become a mainstream hiring technique? Let’s look at some numbers about online video in general and video interviewing to find out: Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
How Do I Video Interview…Recently Fired Job Seekers?
Every candidate comes with their own set of unique interviewing challenges. That’s why we’re tackling how to video interview different types of job seekers with this how to series. Today we’ll be talking about how to connect with a recently fired job seeker in the video interview. Is this job seeker all wrong for your position because another company cut them loose? Or are they exactly the talent your company needs? In today’s tough economic landscape, where 7.9 percent of Americans are currently unemployed, there are more candidates than ever before hitting the job search after a firing. While companies Continue reading
Video Interviewing Benefits for New Companies
Starting a new company comes with a list of to-dos several migraines long, from the mountains of paperwork to physically setting up the new workspace. It is a lot of work, so why not try to cut out some of the complications? Every little bit helps, and if you want to make your new company as efficient as possible as quickly as possible then you need to use every tool at your disposal. Like this article? Subscribe to our HR digest to receive a weekly email with fresh and informative content.
