When it comes to high volume recruitment, HR professionals face a series of unique hiring challenges.
These challenges are particularly acute in industries that experience high staff turnover, receive an above-average volume of applicants with a need to select on a skill set more focused on personality than experience. It makes a fast, effective, and accurate screening process a necessity for recruiters.
All this adds up to recruiters facing strenuous and time-consuming selection processes.
Automated video interviews
The solution many leading recruiters are taking is a “speed-date” approach to interviewing candidates, with automated video interviews allowing them to get to know their candidates faster, as result, increasing the chances of finding the right match.
In order to deal with a large volume of candidates and increase efficiency by selecting the right candidates faster and reduce turnover, more and more organisations are using video interviews to create an automated selection process focused on (screening) analysing soft skills and personality.
With automated video interviews, the recruiters typically spend a few minutes recording 3-5 questions for their candidates and can invite a few hundred candidates to the pre-recorded interview in one go. The candidates will record their answers from home, at a time that is convenient for them.
The recruiters decide how many times the candidates are allowed to redo an answer and how much thinking time they get before answering each question. The average answer per question takes 90 seconds, bringing the entire duration of the interview to 7.5 minutes per candidate. Half the time recruiters spend on an average phone interview.
What’s more, candidates get the same questions, in the same order, with the same level of engagement from the interviewer. This not only guarantees a consistent candidate experience but also makes the process fair and objective.
Improved experience
Automated video interview gives direct insight into a candidate’s personality and soft skills, as well as provides recruiters with the flexibility and efficiency of a “speed date” type interview, combined with the accuracy and effectiveness of an on-site assessment.
From the candidates’ perspective, they get the chance to present themselves to their potential employer from the comfort of their homes and outside of office hours.
Automated video interviews take the hassle out of finding your match.
NIJobs offers video recruitment as part of a portfolio of recruitment solutions ranging from job posting to employer branding training and insights.