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Tips for Successful Video Interviews

Tips for Successful Video Interviews

The modern era is a time where technology plays a vital role in everyday’s tasks. Everyday something new is invented to make the living of the common people easier & comfortable. In the earlier phase, people have to travel miles for an interview but these days, everything is done online. Now you can have online video interviews, which save the time of both the recruiter as well as of the volunteer. Before going for an online video interview, there are many things that you need to look out for so that everything goes the way you have expected.

Here are the few things that you should check before having a video interview. Keep reading

1.  Be yourself

The most important thing that you should keep in mind at the time of interview is that you should be authentic & transparent and provide genuine data to the authority. Many make the mistake of withholding the important information or giving out false info, which becomes an issue afterward.

2.  Have a quality assured video

It is a key point to have a superior quality webcam as it will make your presentation more effective and it will be beneficial to present your performance as it is at the other end. So always watch out for any hindrance so that you can act smoothly while giving the interview.

3.  Practice is a key for Success

Practice the interview and record it on a video to see yourself that how have you performed. The major benefit that you will have is that you will get to know about your shortcomings and faults. You will be able to make improvements where you lack or stuck. Another thing is that you will come to know about the working of your gadgets & equipments.

4.  Have a good posture & poise

You will have more confidence in right posture and the way you speak. Always choose a comfortable sitting posture and try sitting with your back straight. Try to focus on your breathing as it will let some nervousness flush out and make use of hand gestures as well, but not too much.

5.  Check your background

You should eliminate things from your background that seem to distract you or which might distract your interviewer. Choose a decent background which is noise free and where you can put your full concentration on your interview. Check out an adequate lighting so that your face is visible. If possible, place a lamp behind your computer so that your face gets well lighted.

6.  Confirm Equipment

Make a proper check of your equipment like mike should be giving a superior quality sound, camera stands (if required), lights etc. Also make a pre-run of the software you are going to use for the online video interview like Skype, Google Hangouts or Zoom to check the video quality. 

7.  Make eye contact

This is the most important aspect that you should look for; always make an eye contact with the interviewer by looking at the camera. This trick would ensure that you are actively participating and shows your level of alertness.

Conclusion

The more you practice and gain confidence in your abilities, the more likely you are to ace the interview and get the job. It would be beneficial for you to have a proper check of the mike & the gadgets you will use so that the interview goes well. The key thing to ace an interview is a practice, so repeat several times to make yourself perfect.

Future of Interviewing is Here – Mobile Video Interviews

Future of Interviewing is Here – Mobile Video Interviews

Just at the end of last year, EasyHire.me proudly to announced a new innovation within our system that will allow hiring managers to have an even easier time reviewing applicants! We have integrated our platform with the internet browser systems that are accessible both on iOS and Android.  Candidates can now take interviews any time and anywhere without the need to install additional apps.

Having the ability to take an interview instantly from any location in the world puts you, as a hiring team member, in a better position by improving efficiency between you and the candidates. Statistics show that it allows you to increase your exposure to new candidates by 36%*.

Since hundreds of other people are competing for the same position it is important to contact the hiring team as fast as possible to conduct your interview. Being able to see in which order the interviews come in as a hiring manager puts you in an advantageous spot. Here is what NPR said about a study done in 2015,

“being the first person to apply for an interview allows you to gain a more objective review of your resume and gives you a higher chance of landing the position you are seeking” – NPR, 2015.

 

Since those applying first will almost always be the ones who are genuinely seeking the position our new system removes the barrier of additional apps in order to get the hiring managers to the new contacts as soon as possible. If the statistics aren’t enough to satisfy you, check out these three reasons on why you should use our system.

Here are the three reasons why you should use EasyHire.me for your next position:

  1. Uniqueness – Hiring managers have hundreds of choices. Set yourself apart with a mobile video interview.
  2. Convenience – Integrated interviews allow you to take an interview from any device, anywhere. If you find yourself in the library, dorm, or just lounging in the comfort of your living room you can take out your phone and quickly come in contact with a hiring manager.
  3. Efficiency – As a hiring team member you are able to review more interviews in a shorter amount of time. If you are a skilled individual at your position, you can get faster feedback from the candidate in order

If you are getting too many of inconsistent results getting in contact with hiring teams, we would be happy to show how EasyHire.me can lead to conduction of efficient, consistent, and meaningful job interviews. See the official announcement for this update here. If you’re not using video interviews yet, click here to sign-up and try!

*INC.com 2017

Mobile Video Interviews: New Feature Release

Mobile Video Interviews: New Feature Release

The EasyHire.me Team is thrilled to announce the general availability of its mobile interface for on-demand interviews. Job seekers can now use their iPhone or Android phones/tablets to take on-demand interviews anytime and anywhere. The Mobile Video Interviews are recorded and made available for grading and sharing among the hiring team upon completion.

Benefits of Mobile Video Interviews:

  • No webcam, no problem. Candidates without a computer or webcam are still able to complete video interview via their mobile device.
  • Interview anytime, anywhere. Need to interview while vacationing or during your lunch break? Sure! Simply pull out your smartphone and take your interview anytime, anywhere.
  • High Definition video recording. Modern smartphones have better cameras than most computers.  Candidates can reliably capture high definition video.

How it works:

EasyHire.me Mobile Video Interviews do not require candidates to download and install any custom mobile applications. This feature works right from the build-in Safari (iOS) or Chrome (Android) browsers, making it taking interviews easier than ever!

Mobile video interviews enable candidates to complete their assessments faster, so the hiring team can accelerate its hiring decision and ultimately the overall hiring process.

At EasyHire.me we strongly believe that mobile video interview technologies give hiring teams the much-needed edge in today’s competitive talent market.

Contact us at sales@easyhire.me to learn more or sign up now to accelerate your hiring!

Click the Product Update link to see all of our updates.

Top 5 Benefits of Video Interviews

Top 5 Benefits of Video Interviews

When searching for candidates, organizations look for employees who are a good match on the skills, and are the right cultural fit. And they want to find these people fast.

On the phone, a lot of candidates appear to meet the job requirements because the communication is limited. Recruiters can’t see the body language, and it’s hard to tell if a candidate has functional expertise.

So how can recruiters and organizations save time and money on pre-screening, and ensure that only the best candidates make it to on-site interviews? The answer is video technology.

Technology has become a great game changer when it comes to recruiting. Video interviews give recruiters and organizations more insight into candidates in the pipeline, ensuring that only the best ones move forward in the interview process.

Let’s consider the following scenario. An organization is looking for a candidate. Here’s what an average process looks like before an organization decides if a candidate is the right fit and it’s worth investing more time and money into this person:

  1. Screening time
  2. Phone interview time
  3. Scheduling time
  4. Candidate’s travel expenses (if applicable)
  5. Manager’s time to interview
  6. Team’s time to interview

With video interviews, you’d know after step 2 if a candidate is the right fit for the job. So why do you have to wait to see the candidate until you bring them on-site?

In the past, organizations didn’t have a choice. The only way to see a candidate face-to-face was to invite them on-site. With the help of video and technology, organizations can save time and money by using video to pre-screen candidates.

Paul J. Bailo, an author of “The Essential Digital Interview Handbook”, says that video interviews are about time and cost efficiency, and that “…digital job interviews are the closest thing we have to face-to-face interviews”.

Here’re top 5 benefits of video interviews:

  1. Screen multiple candidates simultaneously.
  2. Search and analyze responses—all interview information is recorded.
  3. Get insights quickly—for example, examine verbal cues and body language.
  4. Recruiters don’t lose candidates due to scheduling issues—candidates can record their answers at the time that works best for them.
  5. Bring team work and collaboration to your hiring decisions.

Video interviews are gaining more popularity. Companies like EasyHire.me make it easy for recruiters and organizations to get started with video interviews—there’s no need to install any software or apps. You can just sign-up for a free trial and start interviewing at EasyHire.me

Contact one of our experts today for a free consultation on video interviews, and to find out if your organization meets minimum technical requirements to sign up for the service.

Why Video Interviews Are Seeing Increased Adoption

Why Video Interviews Are Seeing Increased Adoption

Finding the right candidate can be challenging and time-consuming. “Companies are implementing video interviews more and more, and people are actually getting hired faster now, because it’s less time and less aggravation on both ends,” says Paul J. Bailo, a digital executive and author of “The Essential Digital Interview Handbook.”

By adding video to the interview process, organizations and recruiters can quickly pre-screen multiple candidates at once, and observe verbal cues and body language to choose the right candidates.

Video interviews give employers the chance to test a candidate’s on-screen presence, but that’s not the only reason for this growing trend. Organizations state that conducting initial interviews with video saves them time, money and scheduling headaches and allows them to see more candidates than they would be able to manage otherwise. Recruiters can replay or review anything that catches their eye and compare candidates to narrow down the field before inviting a selection for a face-to-face interview or to an assessment centre.

While traditional interview processes probably aren’t going away any time soon, the time- and cost-saving benefits of interviewing someone via video, and its ability to transcend geographical barriers, will eventually lead to a significant reduction in face-to-face interviews. Video interviewing increases speed of hire, allowing recruiters to focus more time and energy on the best candidates.

The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts that by 2030 the hyper-connected, tech savvy generation of millennials will make up 75% of the workforce. This new wave of people are tech literate, and accustomed to being connected anywhere, at any time. Thanks to the rise of mobile, cloud and social, millennials are used to flexibility, openness and instantly connecting with people regardless of their location. By adding video and collaboration features such as chat to the early stages of the interview process, employers can help millennial feel connected, and create the experience similar to social platforms.

At EasyHire.me, we believe that video is an essential part of today’s recruiting process. Based on the latest WebRTC protocol, video is supported by most browsers and doesn’t require installing any additional software. With EasyHire.me, employers can drastically accelerate their interview process by requesting candidates to take online video interviews, schedule live interviews, have them recorded and then collaborate among the team online when making a decision.

Watch a mashup of cinema’s most disastrous job interview scenes—do you think these companies could have benefited by doing video interviews? https://youtu.be/QBytUesZHl8

Video: An easy way to build human connection to hiring process

Video: An easy way to build human connection to hiring process

Recruiting is all about building human connections!

A few years back, the recruiting process was very different; it involved far more touch points. On a regular basis, a mega event would be hosted called “Job Fair” where companies would set up their booths to attract talent. Recruiters, hiring managers, and team members would stand in the booths to answer questions from the job seekers. The job seekers attend these events to learn about the job role, company, and culture by talking to the hiring manager and team. Often, interviews would be conducted then and there, and job offers would be made. Those were the good times when companies would fill open positions quickly and candidates would find jobs in just a few hours. Hiring was not as daunting as it is today!

Fast forward to present, recruiting has become more an online, automated, and impersonal process. Companies advertise the job in a myriad of ways making it extremely easy for candidates to apply, so much so that anyone, qualified or not can easily apply for the job. As a result, there are too many resumes coming from too many places. Companies are overwhelmed by the sheer volume of the resume and the hiring manager ends up viewing only a few resumes that are automatically selected by the system. As a result, many a time, the very best candidates get lost in a pile of resume while the companies find it difficult to find the right talent to fill the open position. Hiring has become a complex and arduous process.

What is lost from the past to present is the human connection! Job seekers interact more with online sites while employers rely on software systems that parse the resume based on few keywords. John Hollan, the editor of RecruitingDaily accurately pointed out in his article that technology should be utilized to facilitate the recruitment process, not replace it. The video recruiting is one such technology that brings the human interaction, back to the hiring process. Looking at a person and talking face to face over a video helps in forming the human connection. It improves the candidate experience, whether it is a screening interview or following rounds of interview.  The recent Indeed blog on video recruiting sums it up very well – “Purpose and human connection play important roles in every single stage of the hiring process — from researching and exploring options to applying and interviewing for a job”

How to recruit high-quality candidates?

How to recruit high-quality candidates?

Recruiting high-quality candidates who perform well has many challenges. Too many times hiring managers complain of candidates who were brought in for an interview to be greatly lacking the skills and knowledge to do the jobs correctly. 76% of the time to fill is taken up by the managers with recruiters feeling disappointed and frustrated thinking they had passed along excellent candidates.

While there may be many reasons for this result. One interesting theory may be that the candidates simply don’t know what they don’t know. A study published in The Journal of Personality and Social Psychology found that unskilled and incompetent individuals actually have an overestimation of their skills and knowledge. It seems that people give themselves too much credit and overestimate their grasp on subjects they know nothing about. The study also found that the more knowledge people have on a subject, the more they are willing to admit that they are not the expert and have a great deal more to learn.

How does this relate to hiring?

Blissful Ignorance from a Candidate — Candidates who are unaware of their skills and knowledge required to be a top candidate will not be second guessing themselves and may be perceived as confident and enthusiastic during the initial phone screen. The candidates who are more knowledgeable and more experienced may come across as uninterested and unenthusiastic when really they are well aware of all the challenges that may arise and address the questions with a healthy bit of caution.

An overconfident recruiter — Taking this same theory regarding the candidates, recruiters may be overconfident in their knowledge of the position and what questions to ask. They may be unaware of the proper responses they should be looking for and when to ask for help or clarification from managers.

How can video interviewing help?

Enabling recruiters to collaborate with managers in designing effective questions and suggested answers will enable clear expectations between the hiring team. Recruiters may also be able to work with more than one manager to speed up the screening process as well.

Allowing managers to collaborate on the screening process will empower managers to be involved sooner in the hiring process resulting in a clear partnership between the two parties.

Asking managers to create questions themselves as well as suggested answers to look for in the case that they are too busy to review the pool of interviews.

3 reasons why video interviews are trending

3 reasons why video interviews are trending

The biggest challenge in recruiting is keeping pace with growth while maintaining a high quality of hire. Many companies are adopting Video Interviews and Artificial Intelligence to supercharge the recruiting process.

Three main reasons why video interviews are trending:

  1. Reduce time to hire

    You will loose out talent if you don’t hire fast. Job seekers typically apply and interview at multiple places at the same time. Taking undue time in scheduling interviews, and making decisions, often times result in losing out the talent to competition.  A quick screening process and an efficient end-to-end candidate selection process is absolutely essential to maintain your hiring edge. Video interviews can be introduced into the hiring process in multiple ways. Pre-screening candidates using one-way video interviews allows hiring teams to scale the screening process, and 1-1 video interviews to reach out to more candidates across geographic boundaries. Further sharing video interview excerpts provide transparency and speed up the decision-making process.

  2. Video Streaming technology advancement

    Web-based video conferencing technology has improved leaps and bounds in the last couple of years. A few years back,  the videos were blocky, audio choppy and the overall experience was terrible. With the advancement of browser-based peer-to-peer WebRTC technology, we see a lot more video integrations with enterprise products. It is now easy to stream video in real time with high fidelity, anytime and from anywhere. A video interviewing platform like EasyHire.me offers HD quality video with recording and tagging making it a viable option to interview candidates remotely without sacrificing user experience. It is only a matter of time that video interviews will become the de-facto way of conducting interviews.

  3. On demand behavior

    Most people want and expect work items spanning short durations and tasks that can be executed at their own convenience. People are adopting technologies that help them to do byte sized work items. On-demand video interviews perfectly fit this behavior pattern. The hiring manager can go over pre-recorded video interviews of job applicants at their own convenience without having to schedule every single interview.

Technology, behavior and the rising demands in hiring are the influencing factors for the adoption of video interviews.

EasyHire’s 2016 wrap up!

EasyHire’s 2016 wrap up!

As 2016 comes to a close, it’s a good opportunity to look back and reflect on the last 12 months at EasyHire.me. Here are some of the highlights of the past year…

On-demand video interviews

On-demand interviews provide significant benefits to the hiring team. By creating a concise list of job-specific questions and inviting a number of promising applicants to record responses on their own time, the hiring team could get valuable pre-screening data to visually compare…. read more

Phone calls from EasyHire web interface

Recruiters and hiring managers can now call candidates on their conventional phones from within the EasyHire.me Interview Room. Similar to video interviews, the phone interviews can be recorded and shared with the hiring team… read more

EasyHire partners with Greenhouse

EasyHire.me platform enables Greenhouse users to take advantage of integrated video interviews from directly within Greenhouse to easily engage with the candidate and assess their knowledge, personalities, and skills… read more

Integration with Slack

With EasyHire.me integration with Slack, you would be able to configure a slack channel to receive interview reminders and notifications… read more

Code editor for technical interviews

EasyHire.me provides an integrated code editor for conducting effective technical interviews.  The candidates can choose to code in their favorite coding language (C/C++, Java, Javascript, Python, Perl etc.) using the inbuilt code-editor… read more

EasyHire job link

You can now create a public link to your EasyHire.me job posting and use it in all your job board postings, social media campaigns, and even email messages. Candidates will be able to click to take an On Demand interview immediately … read more

EasyHire.me partners with SmartRecruiters

“By partnering with EasyHire.me, SmartRecruiters will offer an integrated solution that makes it easier for talent acquisition teams to fill roles that are required to meet company goals and fill project requirements. As companies grow and scale, the video interviewing solution offers an efficient way to scout and hire talent,” said Jerome Ternynck, Founder & CEO of SmartRecruiters … read more

EasyHire.me integrates with Zapier

The integration with Zapier allows you to connect multiple apps with EasyHire.me, making it easy for data to flow across them… read more 

EasyHire.me partners with SmartRecruiters

EasyHire.me partners with SmartRecruiters

EasyHire.me announces a partnership with SmartRecruiters to bring online video interviewing to the talent acquisition platform.

“By partnering with EasyHire.me, SmartRecruiters will offer an integrated solution that makes it easier for talent acquisition teams to fill roles that are required to meet company goals and fill project requirements. As companies grow and scale, the video interviewing solution offers an efficient way to scout and hire talent,” said Jerome Ternynck, Founder & CEO of SmartRecruiters “We’re passionate about expanding our partner ecosystem with fellow best-in-breed tools, such as EasyHire.me, in order to enable our customers to quickly and efficiently hire the best talent.”

Read more about this partnership here.

Earlier this year, EasyHire.me partnered with Greenhouse as well to provide video interviewing capability to the Greenhouse users.

These partnerships allow talent acquisition teams to seamlessly and efficiently funnel the best-fit candidates through the pipeline.