The use of video in the hiring process is here and gaining in popularity due to increase costs of travel, lack of time and the transient nature of human beings in general.

What we have done at Talent on View is offer a video solution Software as a Service to let the recruiter/hiring manager do with it what they will and how they want to use it - it is a flexible tool which can be used at any point in the hiring process and with the evidence we collected (we interviewed over 400 HR/Recruitment/Resourcing/Hiring/Talent Managers)82% said they felt that video would give them the ability to make a more informed decision. Talent on View streams the video live to our servers, enables a recruiter/hiring manager to send a video to a contact or multiple contacts via an encrypted link - there is no format, file size or firewalls to worry about.

Alot of negative feedback comes across by people saying “I sift through 10 CV’s in a minute and therefore have no time to watch a 30 second clip of someone aswell” - have these people stopped and asked themselves what assumptions they have based on a piece of paper? Have they missed out on some amazing candidates because they weren’t the No1 CV writer in the world? No because they wouldnt like to admit that actually quality not quantity wins the day every time when it comes to filling positions - it happens at every stage of the process and if people slowed down and took stock there wouldnt be such an almighty rush in the world!

The discrimination blog I wrote that Louise kindly referred to has been discussed at length by some fairly heavy weight HR types and no one can disagree with the fact that people are just as likely to discrimate on paper or in person as they would using video.

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