Check out these unmissable developments in video recruitment, and the reasons why you need them in your hiring process.
Google Hangouts is a handy new tool that’s truly brought recruitment into the social media age.
This app is part of the Google+ suite; it’s completely free, easy to set up and can help you save on time and costs.
With Google Hangouts, you can do much more than just speak to clients face-to-face online.
You can record a live video with a hiring manager or employees and talk up the company culture at the place you’re recruiting for. Then, save the video, upload it to YouTube and share it with your network.
Once you’ve drummed up interest in your vacancies, you can use Google Hangouts to conduct screening or pre-interviews to whittle down your shortlist before you meet candidates face-to-face.
Get started by registering a Google+ account, downloading the Hangouts app and joining a weekly 'Hangout Helpers' session for free training.
Automated video interviewing lets you interview candidates without needing to be online.
The interviewer pre-records one video that includes some initial screening questions, which is then sent out to all candidates. After each question, candidates are given the chance to record their answer.
You can then compile all the candidate responses and watch them at a convenient time. This helps prevent issues with interview scheduling or working across time zones.
As you only need to ask all these questions once, you have scope to create a valuable pre-screening process to remove candidates who don’t fit the bill.
Reducing the number of candidates you need to see at the interview stage will help you save time and reduce your recruitment costs.
You can reduce the hours spent on candidate admin by pairing your video interviewing process with an applicant tracker.
Create a bespoke list of questions and save them in the applicant tracker so you can access them quickly when you start interviewing.
After you’ve looked through candidates’ CVs and other details, you can rank, rate and record all the people you want to shortlist for a video interview.
Once the video interviews are complete, you can review, share and comment on candidate responses. This helps you to share information with other recruitment decision-makers and quickly whittle down your shortlist until you’re left with the top performing candidate.
Who knows where video recruitment will take the industry in future. But, by adopting these techniques, you can get up-to-date with online recruitment and save yourself time, money and the odd headache.