Comments on: Your Next Job Interview – Via Webcam? http://www.myglobalcareer.com/2009/07/06/your-next-job-interview-%e2%80%93-via-webcam/ Advancing your career in the global economy. Tue, 09 Mar 2010 06:07:10 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://www.myglobalcareer.com/wp-content/themes/myglobalcareer/_media/_global/logo.gif My Global Career: Advancing your career in the global economy. http://www.myglobalcareer.com By: LeafsOfTalent.com http://www.myglobalcareer.com/2009/07/06/your-next-job-interview-%e2%80%93-via-webcam/comment-page-1/#comment-10307 LeafsOfTalent.com Fri, 15 Aug 2008 05:08:28 +0000 http://www.myglobalcareer.com/archives/2007/06/11/your-next-job-interview-%e2%80%93-via-webcam/#comment-10307 Web-based interviews are beginning to attract more attention these days so LeafsOfTalent.com who is working toward developing their own version of the technology application has created a basic list of tips in approaching a web-based interview. Please visit LeafsOfTalent's press release link for details. Web-based interviews are beginning to attract more attention these days so LeafsOfTalent.com who is working toward developing their own version of the technology application has created a basic list of tips in approaching a web-based interview. Please visit LeafsOfTalent’s press release link for details.

]]> By: Darryn Severyn http://www.myglobalcareer.com/2009/07/06/your-next-job-interview-%e2%80%93-via-webcam/comment-page-1/#comment-10167 Darryn Severyn Sat, 09 Aug 2008 14:48:53 +0000 http://www.myglobalcareer.com/archives/2007/06/11/your-next-job-interview-%e2%80%93-via-webcam/#comment-10167 Rusty, The reasons you list for video interview benefits is why companies like HireVue and ours, InterActive Applicant (www.interactiveapplicant.com) are the wave of the future in recruitment. The current hiring process for most companies is archaic and very time/cost inefficient. Employers who don’t accept online, automated video interview systems are not only missing great applicants because of “lack of keywords” on the resume, but also reducing time for their HR team to work strategically in the organization. For the applicant the benefits are huge. Because of the volume of resumes received, most recruiting agencies and employers simply don’t have the time to talk to every applicant. As a result, if they don’t have the experience or keyword needed, they get screened out and never get a chance to show employers their communication skills, enthusiasm and passion. This is a very poor way to screen applicants. How often has an applicant appeared great on paper, and then in person, are not as strong as you had hoped? On the flip-side, there a number of applicants who may not have great resumes, but are excellent in person, but are never even given 2 minutes to pitch why they should be considered. I have experienced this second scenario many times when I had my own recruiting agency – and as a result founded InterActive Applicant to address this huge inefficiency. Good for companies like Thorpe Capital for using HireVue! They will soon learn that using this type of technology will put them in a competitive advantage in the war for top talent. Darryn Severyn, MBA, B.Sc. CEO, InterActive Applicant www.interactiveapplicant.com Rusty,

The reasons you list for video interview benefits is why companies like HireVue and ours, InterActive Applicant (www.interactiveapplicant.com) are the wave of the future in recruitment.

The current hiring process for most companies is archaic and very time/cost inefficient. Employers who don’t accept online, automated video interview systems are not only missing great applicants because of “lack of keywords” on the resume, but also reducing time for their HR team to work strategically in the organization.

For the applicant the benefits are huge. Because of the volume of resumes received, most recruiting agencies and employers simply don’t have the time to talk to every applicant. As a result, if they don’t have the experience or keyword needed, they get screened out and never get a chance to show employers their communication skills, enthusiasm and passion. This is a very poor way to screen applicants. How often has an applicant appeared great on paper, and then in person, are not as strong as you had hoped? On the flip-side, there a number of applicants who may not have great resumes, but are excellent in person, but are never even given 2 minutes to pitch why they should be considered. I have experienced this second scenario many times when I had my own recruiting agency – and as a result founded InterActive Applicant to address this huge inefficiency.

Good for companies like Thorpe Capital for using HireVue! They will soon learn that using this type of technology will put them in a competitive advantage in the war for top talent.

Darryn Severyn, MBA, B.Sc.
CEO, InterActive Applicant
http://www.interactiveapplicant.com

]]> By: Colleen http://www.myglobalcareer.com/2009/07/06/your-next-job-interview-%e2%80%93-via-webcam/comment-page-1/#comment-10160 Colleen Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:13:38 +0000 http://www.myglobalcareer.com/archives/2007/06/11/your-next-job-interview-%e2%80%93-via-webcam/#comment-10160 HA HA HA... Whoever you are, Jerr W, you just crack me up. This is indeed the way the world is moving... OK OK... maybe not the avatars for everybody... but kick it out there to the masses to get them to realize this stuff IS HERE TO STAY and moving forward at the speed of fright.... Good post! HA HA HA… Whoever you are, Jerr W, you just crack me up. This is indeed the way the world is moving… OK OK… maybe not the avatars for everybody… but kick it out there to the masses to get them to realize this stuff IS HERE TO STAY and moving forward at the speed of fright…. Good post!

]]> By: Jerr W http://www.myglobalcareer.com/2009/07/06/your-next-job-interview-%e2%80%93-via-webcam/comment-page-1/#comment-10157 Jerr W Fri, 08 Aug 2008 17:14:46 +0000 http://www.myglobalcareer.com/archives/2007/06/11/your-next-job-interview-%e2%80%93-via-webcam/#comment-10157 The year is 2040. All resumes consist of electronically transmitted hologram packets that simulate and display a candidate's strengths and weaknesses en totem, with stunning precision. Recruiters receive these interactive hologram/video/resumes from all over the world and funnel them through a vast web-based job marketplace -- let's say a company like Dayak, or another online ebay recruiting model that has grown so large and powerful that it makes Bill Gates blush. Hiring managers retrieve holograms from private depositories set-up by recruiters who want to fill their specific job needs. The hiring manager activates the hologram and is led through an interactive candidate presentation that can simulate the candidate's demeanor in the workplace and in any specific hard situations specified with a virtual reality engine that reads from a meticulously compiled psychological/behavioral profile. Hologram resumes can be cross-compared and simulations can be programmed presenting how two prospective candidates would behave towards one another in the workplace. If the hiring manager likes what he sees, he can use the hologram to tap into the candidate's home message system instantly and schedule an interview which occurs, again, by hologram chat (there is no need to "dress nice" because you can alter, via CGI, your physical appearance over the holo-phone, although it would not be in your best interests to misrepresent too much). The candidate is hired and works entirely from home using a universal telecommuting hologram virtual-reality system where all things are clean, the coffee is always warm and never gritty, the computers never break down, and the speakers in every office play Tex Ritter from 9 to 5. Tex Ritter? And that's when I woke up... The year is 2040. All resumes consist of electronically transmitted hologram packets that simulate and display a candidate’s strengths and weaknesses en totem, with stunning precision. Recruiters receive these interactive hologram/video/resumes from all over the world and funnel them through a vast web-based job marketplace — let’s say a company like Dayak, or another online ebay recruiting model that has grown so large and powerful that it makes Bill Gates blush. Hiring managers retrieve holograms from private depositories set-up by recruiters who want to fill their specific job needs. The hiring manager activates the hologram and is led through an interactive candidate presentation that can simulate the candidate’s demeanor in the workplace and in any specific hard situations specified with a virtual reality engine that reads from a meticulously compiled psychological/behavioral profile. Hologram resumes can be cross-compared and simulations can be programmed presenting how two prospective candidates would behave towards one another in the workplace. If the hiring manager likes what he sees, he can use the hologram to tap into the candidate’s home message system instantly and schedule an interview which occurs, again, by hologram chat (there is no need to “dress nice” because you can alter, via CGI, your physical appearance over the holo-phone, although it would not be in your best interests to misrepresent too much). The candidate is hired and works entirely from home using a universal telecommuting hologram virtual-reality system where all things are clean, the coffee is always warm and never gritty, the computers never break down, and the speakers in every office play Tex Ritter from 9 to 5.

Tex Ritter? And that’s when I woke up…

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