Interviewing is a crucial step in the employee selection process. When done effectively, it helps you gauge how well an applicant’s skills, experience, and knowledge meets the job’s requirements and how they would fit in with your company’s corporate culture.
Thanks to technology, you can take it a step further and conduct video interviews to interact with the applicant face-to-face.
The idea of holding a video interview may seem like a nerve-wracking prospect, but it can be beneficial. Interviews finish faster, and you won’t have to rely on a piece of paper to assess a candidate—they’ll be right in front of you!
In this guide, I’ll tell you how to do an in-person video interview correctly, thereby increasing your chances of hiring the right person for the job.
What is a Video Interview?
Put simply, video interviews are face-to-face interviews conducted online.
These interviews give recruiters and employers a meaningful way to interact with candidates who may be remote or currently working without the hassle of being physically present. It is especially useful to interview passive candidates who cannot or will not take a vacation day from work to come in for an interview.
Online interviews let you assess applicants’ qualifications, soft skills, and more during the hiring process.
While a video interview isn’t a perfect replacement for traditional interviews, they certainly have a few hard-to-miss benefits,… Read More