{"id":6260,"date":"2014-12-31T11:00:10","date_gmt":"2014-12-31T10:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.viasto.com\/en\/?post_type=post&#038;p=6260"},"modified":"2020-07-13T17:01:51","modified_gmt":"2020-07-13T15:01:51","slug":"video-interviews-secret-ingredient-successful-recruiting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.viasto.com\/en\/blog\/video-interviews-secret-ingredient-successful-recruiting\/","title":{"rendered":"Why video interviews are the secret sauce to top recruiting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tinymce_structure tinymce_input tinymce_input_focus tinymce_structure_focus\">The challenges that Human Resources has to meet are numerous. Lack of qualified applications for key positions, too many applicants for other positions, difficulties in distinguishing the good from the bad candidates, having long and painful recruiting processes \u2026 you choose! For these reasons, many companies are now looking at video technology as a possible solution. Video interviews can, for example, replace the conventional telephone interview that undoubtedly presents quite a lot of pitfalls and limitations. A new interviewing format among video technology is the so-called <strong>automated<\/strong> or <strong>pre-recorded video interview<\/strong>. What exactly is a pre-recorded video interview? What are typical use cases and how can this interviewing method sustainably <strong>enhance your quality of hire<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h5 class=\"tinymce_structure tinymce_input tinymce_input_focus\"><span style=\"color: #4ea13d;\">What exactly makes pre-recorded video interviews different from live video interviews?<\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"tinymce_structure tinymce_input\">Many companies think of &#8220;Skype&#8221; when hearing about video recruiting for the first time. Besides the fact that Skype represents significant data protection risks, there are a lot of other important reasons why pre-recorded video interviews are special and differ from the live video format.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tinymce_structure tinymce_input tinymce_input_focus tinymce_structure_focus\">Probably <strong>the most significant one<\/strong> is that they are asynchronous, meaning that candidates and recruiters \/ hiring managers do not have to sit in front of the computer at the same time. <strong>On the contrary, both parties are completely time and location independent which makes recruiting more flexible.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"tinymce_structure tinymce_input\"><strong>What does the interviewing process look like?<\/strong> Recruiters create job-relevant interview questions and invite candidates to the video interview. Candidates complete the video interview at their convenience and recruiters and their respective hiring managers assess the candidates&#8217; video answers. Finally, they decide which candidates they want to invite to the next selection step (in-person interview, Assessment Centre, \u2026)<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"tinymce_structure tinymce_input tinymce_input_focus\"><span style=\"color: #4ea13d;\">Automated video interviews for PRE-selection <\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"tinymce_structure tinymce_input\">This is a major difference: while live video interviews are mostly conducted in a final selection step, <strong>pre-recorded video interviewing always serves only for PRE-selection purpose.<\/strong> It is an interviewing method to shortlist candidates! It does <strong>NOT<\/strong> replace the personal conversation, but rather allows to make <strong>better informed decisions<\/strong> on which candidates to invite for a personal conversation.<\/p>\n<h5 class=\"tinymce_structure tinymce_input tinymce_input_focus\"><span style=\"color: #4ea13d;\">Automated video interviews optimise KPIs<br \/>\n<\/span><\/h5>\n<p class=\"tinymce_structure tinymce_input tinymce_input_focus tinymce_structure_focus\">HR increasingly needs to justify their recruiting approach by providing figures and data. You cannot just invite every interesting candidate to an interview; this would be much too expensive. The key performance indicators for recruiting are <strong>time-to-hire, cost-per-hire and candidate satisfaction<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tinymce_structure tinymce_input\"><strong>All three metrics have been analysed in several studies about the benefits of pre-recorded video interviews. The results are as follows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The time-to-hire was <strong>halved<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>In a medium-sized company with 60 vacant positions per year, you can save up to <strong>41%<\/strong> of your costs in pre-selection, and up to <strong>48%<\/strong> in a multinational with 420 vacant positions<\/li>\n<li><strong>89%<\/strong> of all candidates appreciate being able to personally comment on their application<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The challenges that Human Resources has to meet are numerous. Lack of qualified applications for key positions, too many applicants for other positions, difficulties in distinguishing the good from the bad candidates, having long and painful recruiting processes \u2026 you choose! 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