Comments on: Video resumes in the Australian marketplace

By: Michael Specht

Michael Specht — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 08:31:41 +0000

Sheryle thanks for stopping by! I’m still not fully convinced they will take off, except I see a possible use in large volume recruitment efforts where they would provide the additional filtering.

However in professional/hard to fill roles I don’t see a use for a video CV, now video interviewing to save on travel is another thing.

I guess time will tell how and where they are used.

By: Sheryle Moon

Sheryle Moon — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 06:32:06 +0000

Will the video resume take off? Video CVs are a snapshot of a potential employee and serve as another layer of filtering before recruiters settle on their preferred candidates for face-to-face interviews. They’ll never replace paper CVs entirely, but let’s not forget humans are visual creatures. We absorb much of our information and communication non-verbally, so it’s a fair bet that video CVs will become the way of the future!

By: Kevin Howard

Kevin Howard — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 08:25:30 +0000

This is a pretty good idea for recruiters and it *could* give early adopters the edge, providing the candidates present well on video, which to some extent will come down to the skill of the person making the video. My guess is it’s not quite as easy as most people may think to make a professional looking video, and if it’s not professional it may have the reverse of the intended effect.

That said there is no getting away from the fact that video clips with resumes will undoubtedly lead to more discrimination, either positive or negative.

As a business idea, it would be very easy to copy and there is little stopping the recruitment firms taking a 30 day trial, get the training, then just do it for themselves, particularly if they have their own web server. To some extent whether recruiters bother to do this will depend upon the pricing.