How Can Video Interviewing Improve Your HR?

The future is here and we should keep pace with it

A video job interview is becoming a new preliminary stage of applicants selection. The number of world leading companies introducing this innovation grows by the day. Digital recruitment is a future that we cannot ignore otherwise we will be left behind.
 

Just imagine that you no longer have to hold dozens in-person interviews with candidates or spend hours talking with potential employees from all over the country by phone. Modern technologies have already provided us with convenient and user-friendly soft that will help you to optimize and simplify the process of selection of candidates. Let us explain in details how video interview works.

What is Video Interview?

A video job interview is a common interview conducted remotely via video technology as the communication medium. This is a special HR service or application where you can set up a session with questions and a timeline and then create a link that could be shared with potential employees. Then they record the answers that you can screen quickly and select which ones will proceed to the next stage. Sounds great, isn’t it?

How does it Work?

The idea is clear: you set up a session of questions and the candidate records a video with the answers. Let us see the mechanics in details. In special service or application you set up a time-limited session with number of questions that can emerge before the record is on or during the session (depends on your needs). Then the candidate receives an invitation to service with position description and the session. He can use a browser or an application for smartphone or tablet to start an interview. When the interview is finally done, you receive it via service.

This is a basic functionality of video interview but also there are many options that could be customized in accordance with your and company’s needs. Configurable settings are always the way the candidate sees the questions (before the interview or during); the time for preparation; the length of the answer (from 1 to 3 minutes at an average). Needless to say, that all services have their own design and settings but the idea and options are pretty same.

Advantages of Video Interview

A video interview saves your and applicants’ time. The technology gives you an opportunity to quickly look through the applications and select potential employees to invite to the next stage. Our researches shows that video interview saves no less than 50% of time that you would spend on in-person meetings with job seekers. From the very first look at the video you can evaluate the candidate’s adequacy and decide whether it is worthy or not to spend time on him. Video interview improves the quality of data collected by recruitment teams systematizing it and providing a visual imagery. In total, this technology cuts down around 30% of expenses on recruitment.

Besides, in our digital world the number of remote working positions grows with each passing day. Therefore, the candidates can live in another cities and even countries situated in other time zones. In this case, a video interview simplifies communication between you and applicants: you can use service anytime you want without prearrangements and inconveniences. In this context, video interview services win over online video applications like Skype. Moreover, the applicants feel themselves less nervous while doing the video interview and are more likely to act naturally.

Although video interviews make things easier to HRs and applicants, we should remember that to evaluate behavior and reactions an in-person interview is preferable. Yet for the first-round interviews, video interview is a great option and no wonder why this technology is gaining such popularity all over the world.

The implementation of video interviews in recruitment processes grows dramatically. We observe increasing demand for our software from both world-known companies and startups. In 2013 we were the first to introduce video interview service in Russia and now there is a number of market players. The progress does not stand still and we are changing in accordance with market’s calls. We cannot ignore new technologies and always trying to find ways to integrate them into our product. The future is here and we should keep pace with it.

Author Bio

Arik Akhverdyan is the Founder and CEO of VCV Inc. Arik has 15 years of experience in recruitment industry. He has worked previously at Adecco and SGS.