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Video Resumes, the Virtual Interview

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The hiring process for new employees takes a lot of time.  For good reason, you want to hire someone who will be a great fit in your organization.

In tough economic times, candidates have started posting video resumes.  I think this is a great idea.  It saves the interviewer and the candidate time in the pre-screen process.

Check out the site that CareerBuilder is using for Video Resumes.

After watching a few video resumes, my advice is to remember you are not a professional actor.  Your tape should be natural and reflect exactly what the interviewer would see if you came in for an “in person” interview.  Thus, you shouldn’t read from notecards, or try to rhyme like Dr. Seuss.

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This entry was written by Sandi Mays and posted on December 13, 2008 at 12:12 am and filed under Human Resources. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Post a comment(Latest is displayed first) or leave a trackback: Trackback URL.

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  1. Maybe you guys wanna try posting your video resumes at a video posting site to get comments on it first… sort of like a trial an error thing. You can also win stuff!

    This is a great place to post videos and you can actually get something in return!

    http://www.mavric.tv .

    It has over a dozen channels and currently about 300 videos, and growing!

    If you upload just 5 videos you get an entry to win a lottery for a brand new Seagate Free Agent GO drive, beats buying it for $199 US. Other things you can win are a Lottery for any product on Logitech.com ($200 US value), a $50 Itunes gift card or even 1 year of mavric media digital content database premium account for free (normailly costs $1100 US). More entries, more chances.

    You guys should try it out.

    1. MavricTv on December 19th, 2008 at 3:04 am

  2. Think it’s great - I had this as a business idea a couple years ago - but with camcorders, web cams and you tube figured it was only a matter of time that people would be doing their own. Will be interesting to see how this evolves.

    2. Joe on December 15th, 2008 at 9:57 am

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