Video Interviewing: The Best New Tool In Your Recruitment Arsenal 

Just as snail-mail resumes were phased out by online application forms, so to has two-way video interviewing overtaken the humble phone call.

Recruitment technology now allows employers to easily review recorded video interviews of prospective candidates before they spend time and money inviting them to face-to-face meetings.

According to a survey by UK job board Monster, 82 per cent of hiring managers rate a candidate’s ability to hold eye contact as a telling nonverbal cue. Now with video interview technology, characteristics such as this can be revealed before a face-to-face meeting.

Recruitment marketing specialists Employment Office are leading the pack with this emerging recruitment technology, launching their video interviewing product last year in response to increased demand from customers.

“Employment Office is the first company to offer a two-way video platform where a live interview is conducted by a recruitment expert in a format that is both recordable and shareable.  Our approach is human and personal as opposed to a candidate talking into a webcam, answering stock-standard questions,”says Employment Office Managing Director Tudor Marsden-Huggins.

Although job interviews were once seen as the final frontier – a recruitment function that needed to be kept in-house – more businesses are now seeing the value in hiring a professional to conduct a preliminary interview on their behalf.

“Job interviews can be a tough thing to get right.  Without the necessary skills it can be hard to make a confident hiring decision.  By using a trained expert in an interactive interview, you can make an informed choice based on substantive candidate responses, while also having the visual capacity to assess non-verbal communication skills and professional presentation,”Marsden-Huggins said.

Conducting interviews via interactive video is also more efficient and cost effective.  It’s certainly easier and cheaper to arrange a video interview that can be shared with key decision makers anytime, as opposed to scheduling face-to-face meetings with busy people in several locations.

In an age of globalisation and virtualisation, having easy access to candidates beyond geographical barriers is important. Businesses need to think creatively to reach out to potential employees and in today’s recruitment landscape video interviewing is proving to be a valuable tool to add to your recruitment toolkit.

If you would like to receive more information on how video interviewing technology can help your business, contact Employment Office today on 07 3330 2555.