{"id":5129,"date":"2014-04-24T16:21:04","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T15:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viasto.com\/en\/?post_type=post&p=5129"},"modified":"2020-07-14T10:37:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-14T08:37:18","slug":"pre-recorded-video-interviewing-ensures-diversity-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viasto.com\/en\/blog\/pre-recorded-video-interviewing-ensures-diversity-recruiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Why video interviewing ensures diversity in recruiting"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Companies with a diverse workforce perform better. What does diversity mean, actually? For personnel selection, it means equal opportunities for all candidates, fair and equal treatment, and selection based on objective criteria. All applicants should have the same chance to succeed.<\/p>\n

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For quite some time now, diversity has been regarded as a competitive advantage for organisations. A study conducted by McKinsey (2009) showed a relationship between gender diversity and the organisation\u2019s financial performance. Organisations whose top employees are at least 30% women have a 53% better EBIT margin.<\/p>\n

However, studies still prove that traditional selection methods often prevent diversity in recruiting, especially CV-screening and unstructured selection interviews. Such methods have been proven to be prone to bias in making selection decisions. This is how talented applicants are unfairly rejected. Can you really risk to wrongly reject those talents?<\/p>\n

Humboldt University of Berlin did groundbreaking research and discovered that pre-recorded video interviewing, a new selection method, supports fairness and, therefore, diversity in selection decisions. Discover what pre-recorded video interviewing actually is.<\/a><\/p>\n

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