Your Guide to Using Video Interviews Effectively for Hiring

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Technology has been transforming rapidly - this not only affects the way an organization functions but also the way you build an effective workforce. Recruiting has moved a long way from pen and paper format to online job boards, social media and now video interviews.

The best way to showcase that you are agile and longsighted as a company to potential hires is by using modern recruiting solutions. Video Interviews are a boon for employers and candidates in multiple ways. It allows recruiters to save time, effort, and hire better talent at the click of a button and equip the candidates to find the best matched opportunity.

For screening, options available are automated interviews, code evaluation and written assessments. At a later stage, if the candidate matches recruiter’s requirement, they could invest time into live interviews. This works well for campus hiring, technology and sales hiring as well, where recruiters have to screen and select candidates for a handful of positions in a short span of time.

In the next few pages, we will delve into the details of hiring via video interviews, written assessments, and code evaluation in the field of tech, sales and campus hiring.

Revolutionize Hiring withVideo Interviews

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Most organizations have a very widespread network of salesforce. With an ever- expanding consumer needs, organizations are also in a continuous expansion mode in terms of salesforce. This leads to a situation where organizations put the onus of recruitment on the various sales managers scattered across the country.

Though this enables them to have a larger sourcing base, it also has a telling impact on quality. This approach also leads to significant increase in Time-To-Hire as several rounds of interview need to be conducted to put in place some control.

Biases also creep in the hiring process as majority of the hiring happens through referrals which will have a direct impact on the business as a below-par field force leads to non-achievement of quotas and a smaller internal pool for succession planning for First Level Managers.

In a decentralized hiring strategy, video interviews are very helpful. Not only it can lead to a significant improvement in quality of new hire, it can also reduce the time to hire drastically.

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Referral Candidates (smaller candidate pool)

Regional Interview

Telephonic Interview

Direct Selection

Misfit & Inefficient Employees

Poor Performance of the company

Inept Performers

Higher Dropouts

Global Candidates (largercandidate pool)

Written Assessment

Regional Interview

Automated Interview Review Candidate Assessment

at Convenience

Selection

Better Candidate Choice

Better Performance

of the company

Productive Employees

Higher Growth

Conventional v/s Intelligent Sales Hiring

Today, every company is also a software company in some way or the other. Developers are the ones who are often tasked with pushing the envelope, helping you simulate, iterate and innovate faster than ever. Regardless of the industry your company is in or its size, hiring talented developers is critical for business to thrive. They are also in high demand, and not easily wooed by free passes or weekend retreats.

Best tech hires are typically the ones who are reluctant to come to your office or travel for an interview. They are critical resources at work and do not have time, energy or flexibility to take a day’s leave and travel for an interview. They expect their prospective employers to understand that and proactively provide them convenience and flexibility. Written test in person reduces the candidate reach again leading to missing out good candidates, as you will be restricted by geography.

A plain vanilla test is not be the best case to assess a developer’s skills, you should rather do a code test in a real life code complexity scenario. Also just technical skill evaluation does not give a full picture of the candidate even for the purpose of screening, one needs to do all round evaluation on motivation, cultural fit and suitability using tools like video interview.

Ultimate Technical Hiring Solutions Implemented

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5 Written Assessment

Record Video Log For Future ReferenceRecorded video interviews can be shared with colleagues and used

as an earmark for future candidate search.Businesses can also use these videos for Stereolithography (SLA) or

audit purposes

Code Evaluation

Developer Expertise DemonstratedMost online tests lack an option of using a library of their choice for coding - when developers are given this option, their potential test-

ed to the greatest heights

Global Hiring Across Time ZonesThat job has been sitting around for a while now, as you are unable to

find a candidate that fits the required job profile and referral candidates don’t always cut the deal. You could find talent across time zones without

spending money on travel or time to schedule an interview.

Audio Enabled Video MonitoringCandidate integrity is measured with the option of audio- visual

support, it’s easy to find out if a third person is feeding answers into candidate

Built-In checks Against PlagiarismCandidate integrity is most important to businesses; finding out that

the employee only plagiarizes codes will do no good. An option to block controls like ‘copy+paste’ helps you identify real talent

As employers recruiting on campus, you have a lot to work around: class schedules and part-time jobs, not to mention other employers competing for the same talent. However Campus Hiring teams are still very conventional and even today uses pen and paper tests for the initial screening.

The recruitment teams often visits the campuses or participate in career fairs, conduct paper and pen assessments for the initial screening and then spend hardly 10 minutes per candidate for face to face interview. While a lot of time goes into travel and logistics and paper work in this conventional process there is very little time spent in evaluation of the candidate.

In addition many of the students are employed either on- or off-campus or taking additional courses. This means that some students are working and studying for at least the equivalent number of hours of a full-time job, and therefore fewer students will be available to attend every career fair, information session and recruiting event on-campus. Instead, they’ll likely take their job search online when they have time around their work and studies.

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Traditional v/s Swift Campus Hiring7

On-Campus/Career Fair

Resume Review

Test at Venue

Shortlisted Candidates

Face to Face Interview

Candidate SELECTED

Online Automated Interview/ Video Proctered Written Test

Shortlist Candidates Online

Campus/Live Interview

Best Candidate SELECTED

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Expedited Hiring Solutions

Talview Automated Video Interview solution is based on the concept of asynchronous video interviews which allows organizations to screen candidates using video interviews conducted using pre-defined questions.

Talview Code Evaluation engine is the latest addition to our suite of assessments and is a handy tool when you want to hire a programmer. Combined with our other assessment tools this gives you a holistic picture of the candidate.

Talview Live Interviews allow panel and candidate to connect to each other synchronously online. It has built in features for scheduling the interview and sending notifications, recording interview sessions, whiteboard for candidate to write code etc, multi panel support.

Talview Remote Proctored Written Assessment including multiple choice question tests, essay exams and typing speed tests help organization to conduct written online which are proctored in video.

Talview Mobile Apps are tailor-made - best-in-class and effortless for candidates on the run. It let’s them showcase their skills irrespective of where they are. The live interview app lets you attend an interview when invited by an employer without any geographical barriers.

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Talview is the 2nd largest player globally in video-mobile recruitment technology space and is the pioneer in hiring technology augmented with talent engagement and state of the art analytics. Enabling more than 3 million video responses, Talview has grown to be a preferred partner for leading organizations across the globe. We consistently deliver our valued clients with significant reduction in time to hire, increase in candidate satisfaction, enhance hiring managers and recruiters productivity, wider candidate reach.

We consistently deliver our valued clients with significant reduction in time to hire, increase in candidate satisfaction, enhance hiring managers and recruiters’ productivity and wider candidate reach. Our vision is to leverage technology, especially video and mobile, to create equal opportunities and level-out the playing field for applicants in hiring and make recruitment more efficient and effective.

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