Feb 6, 2013

Video Interviews

Posted by Wendy Weber

I was thinking about the fact that despite advances in technology, Crandall Associates is rarely asked to arrange a video interview.

The general progression of the interview process is that we arrange an initial telephone call, and if all goes well, that is followed by an in-person meeting.  Sometimes if the candidate is local, the hiring manager will initiate the process with an in-person meeting.  Conversely, if the candidate requires relocation, sometimes the process begins with several sequential telephone calls; perhaps first with human resources, then with the hiring manager(s).

Despite the ubiquity of Skype and FaceTime, video interviews are few and far between.

I am told that some companies utilize video interviews to ask several candidates the same questions, and find it useful to “play back videos” and compare the way several candidates answer the same question.  And there is certainly a cost consideration; interviewing via video means there is no expenditure of airfare to “meet with” a candidate who requires relocation.

Not sure why this hasn’t caught on.

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