A New View on Video Interviewing

Posted by Zebulon Perrell on 24 August 2011 | 0 Comments

Having a desk full of Resumes is nothing new in the world of job interviewing.  Calling each job applicant to set up a phone interview can be very stressful, especially when time is involved.  Going through all the results of these interviews and picking the best-qualified person to come in to a face-to-face interview will make your hairs stand on end.  Recently, a new form of job interviewing has been developed that can make the job of picking the right candidate a whole lot easier.

Developed over the past couple of years, virtual interviewing is currently rising in popularity.  Having the ability to screen candidates initially over the web has made it much more convenient for businesses to find the right person for the job.  Not only does it save time during the first stages of the interview process- it can also save businesses money.  Virtual interviewing is a very broad term as it can mean using Skype to do an interview or even your cell phone.  However, one specific virtual interviewing tool is changing the way businesses conduct job interviews.  This tool is Video-View^TM.

Video-View^TM is a brand new interviewing tool that lets a business interview the candidate online via a one-way or two-way interview, and the questions are customizable to fit a business’ needs.  Jenny Stokes, a former employee at the United Way of Greater Greensboro has experienced firsthand how Virtual Interviewing and Video-View^TM has influenced her way of obtaining the right candidate for the job.  "Video View^TM helped me narrow down and streamline my interview/hiring process.  I had fewer face-to -face interviews and saved a tremendous amount of time,” said Mrs. Stokes when asked how her interview processed has changed since implementing Video-View^TM. 

Virtual interviewing is not intended to replace a face-to-face interview, but should be used as an additional screening tool to the interview process.  Many people have commented that, with virtual interviewing and specifically with Video-View^TM, that they can get to know a candidate on a better level.  Mrs. Stokes commented that the most significant impact of Video-View^TM on her work was “efficiency and getting a feel for the candidate.”  In addition, Mrs. Stokes added that Video-View^TM “saved me lots of time and energy and scheduling of in-person interviews so I could carry out the busy nature of my work.”

Virtual interviewing and tools like Video-View^TM are taking over the interview process by storm as they are helping companies save time and money in their hiring process.  Going through and finding the right candidate for the job can be extremely frustrating and time-consuming but as virtual interviewing is showing, it is helping the interview process become more convenient.