Traditional face-to face job interviews are becoming a thing of the past. With a world of technology at your fingertips, screening applicants through online can help to save you valuable time, whilst ensuring that only the best applicants proceed to the final stages of your recruitment process. Here are 5 reasons why video interviews are on the rise.
Put down the phone
Replacing an
initial follow up phone call with a video interview can offer a better insight
by allowing you to see the candidate’s body language. You can achieve the same
results as a phone interview, but with a stronger grasp on who the candidate
really is. Rather than meeting a candidate based only off a resume, video
screening ensures only the candidates with the suitable qualities will be
making it through to the next stage of the recruitment process.
Keep it focused
With a traditional
face-to-face interview, the interview can go astray due to distractions in the
office or side conversations that you may have with the candidate. This
side-chat may also be a source of unconscious bias over who will progress
through to further stages. Through online screening, the candidates all have
the same questions and an allotted amount of time to answer each question. Video interviewing brings uniformity and
professionalism to the recruitment process.
No need for nerves
As each candidate
conducts their video interview in their own time and space. Not only
convenient, interviewing online may reduce interview anxiety. As the candidates
are in a comfortable setting, it allows you to truly grasp their capabilities,
unmasked by the negative stress job interviews often bring.
Be kind, rewind
Need to review
your candidates? Easy! Just click replay! The convenience of a video not only
allows for you to watch their interviews again, allowing you to compare and
contrast promising candidates, having their key qualities fresh in your mind at
all times.
Pass it on
Gone are the days
of having a panel of hiring managers or directors spend their valuable time
sitting through hours of interviews. Relevant sections of promising interviews
can be shared amongst your other hiring managers with the click of a
button.
Boundaryless recruitment
Where potential
candidates used to be those within arm’s reach, with video interviews,
applicants can be screened from all corners of the globe. You can find great talent
interstate and overseas. Video interviews efficiently and cost-effectively
assess and engage with this previously untapped talent pool.
Less time, more candidates
Video interviewing
allows you to rank and review vast amounts of applicants in minimal time. Time
is money, and where with traditional interviews, the number of applicants you
can consider is restricted, screening online allows you to ensure promising
candidates are not missed due to logistics.
Did you like the sounds of video interviewing? Voice
advantage is a sleek and advanced interviewing platform designed to relieve
recruiters and hiring managers of all the manual and follow up activities in
interviewing, whilst giving you the true voice of a candidate’s potential. Please take a quick 3 minutes to 'put yourself in the interviewees shoes' and take the demo here. Or learn more about how it
all works in this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?
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