Video interviewing adds the benefits of face-to-face interviews to phone interviews.  Save on travel by avoiding mileage and airfare reimbursement.  Some services allow you to record the candidate’s answers.  This allows the interviewer to share the interview with others in the organization. Wikipedia has info on online interviewing too.

Here’s a list of Video conferencing/interviewing options: (you will need a webcam, consider reading How to use a Webcam.)

Instant Massagers (AIM, Yahoo, MSN, Etc)

■ Free but recording not available.

https://vonei.com/ 

■Offers online collaboration services with live multi-user video, audio, and content over a broadband internet connection.

http://www.gointerview.com/

■Offer Interview Recording, Share and Collaborate

www.greeninterview.com

■Webcam Recorded Job Interviews. Choose from 2500+ questions or create your own … plug in a webcam and interview online .

www.InterviewStream.com

■ Pre-screening anywhere, system can work independently or with other applicant tracking, recruiting and systems.

www.ekko.tv

■Multi-User Video/Audio/Text Chat, No application is needed; everything takes place inside browser. The Demo Platform is free and available all over the world.

■My interview room is at www.tinyurl.com/ejflive 

www.hirevue.com

■Virtual video interview to screen candidates, or set up a live video interview between the candidate and hiring manager

http://www.vdorecruiter.com/

■Video Interviewing
■Video Conferencing
■2-way, 4-way, and 6-way
■Easy organizing of Video Interviews for Consultants and Candidates
■Conferencing with text messaging or without text messaging

http://talentonview.com

■Record or upload candidate videos

■Share videos with clients and hiring managers

■Allows candidates to upload videos remotely for assessment

■Send videos to multiple contacts at one time

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I recently attended a meeting of the GATEWAY SHRM Chapter in Jersey City, NJ.  As the organization’s Social Media Chair, it is my duty to develop and execute on our social media strategy for the chapter.  I say this because it ties into the presentation given by Steve Levy at the meeting–  ”Social Media Isn’t Voodoo: Fast and Practical Ways to Use Blogging, Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter to Amp Up Your Recruiting or Job Search.” 

Part of my social media strategy for this particular event included video and blogging (which you are reading now), there will be tweets sent out too and hopefully you will share this post and video.

Steve Levy’s approach to social media is not as a series of website to use, but rather in the manner we all should approach social media, as an extension of our conversation and communication with each other, target audience and the world.

For those dipping their toes into social media, Steve recommends these sites as a good starting point:

• Linkedin.com
• Facebook.com
• WordPress.com – blogging
• Twitter.com – microblogging
• Del.icio.us (Social Bookmarking)
• Flickr (Photo Sharing, etc..)
• ERE.net (Recruiting Community)
• YouTube.com – video

With social media you will have colleagues, friends, and “unknowns” asking to join your network or follow you.  Quality is more important than quantity, but I believe we all can get too a couple hundred quality connections.  Steven recommends calling people to say thank you for “connecting” / “following.”  He states it’ll differentiate you and help strengthen the relationship.  I found that advice to be a simple but brilliant.  People too often hide behind email and social media and don’t strengthen relationship by talking or meeting the person face-to-face.   

I’m a big believer in face-to-face, attending events like the GATEWAY chapter meeting is a way I accomplish that.  If you are interested in face-to-face too, take a look at Meetup.com.  I currently lead the NYC Recruiting Meetup Group on that site, it’s my was of bringing people face-to-face in a somewhat informal way to discuss best practice and “next practices” in recruitment.

Here’s part of the presentation.

More on Steve and his presentation:

Social Media isn’t voodoo: Build your brand, build your team, build your
future – (AKA One-Minute Social Media Solutions for Recruiting)
􀂃 Overview of social media for Recruiting
􀂃 Defining Social Media goals for Recruiting
􀂃 The Big Five (Blogging, Career Page, Facebook, LinkedIn,
Twitter) and their individual roles in recruiting
􀂃 Deconstructing the Big Five: Strategies and tactics to make each
effective without breaking the clock
􀂃 Reconstructing the Big Five into a dynamic strategy
􀂃 Use specific jobs from the audience as examples

Speaker: Steve Levy is a Recruiter and Organizational Development consultant with 20 years of diverse experiences in Recruiting, OD, Human Resources, Patent Law, Management Science, and Information Technology (yes, he HAS had a career roadmap – it just hasn’t been conventionally HR). His company profile has covered all the bases – start-ups, growth, mature, and turnarounds – and his sector experience is equally diverse. Steve is a well-respected recruiting, HR and business blogger who is known for his outside-the-box analyses and solutions to quagmire “people” problems. He is presently a very senior recruiter with MTM Technologies, a national IT consulting firm focused on virtualization, unified communication, and managed services solutions.

 This presentation was done at a NYC Recruiting Meetup.    

Video I

Video II

About The NY Recruiting Meetup Network:

http://www.meetup.com/NYCRecruiting  The NY Recruiting Meetup Network believes in face-to-face meetups to learn from each other, network/socialize, and have a little fun. That’s why people love our brief 5-10 minute demos/presentation from our speakers.

Meet other local recruiters, HR professionals, ERE.net members, and hiring managers. Discuss topics including recruiting tactics, eRecruitment, social media, web 2.0/recruitment 2.0, talent management, best & next practices, and building business relationships.

About The NY Recruiting Meetup Network:

http://www.meetup.com/NYCRecruiting  The NY Recruiting Meetup Network believes in face-to-face meetups to learn from each other, network/socialize, and have a little fun. That’s why people love our brief 5-10 minute demos/presentation from our speakers.

Meet other local recruiters, HR professionals, ERE.net members, and hiring managers. Discuss topics including recruiting tactics, eRecruitment, social media, web 2.0/recruitment 2.0, talent management, best & next practices, and building business relationships.

 Allen Ackerman, Founder/CEO, The Hire Syndicate, demostrates their iPhone app and desktop widget for real-time recruiting at the January NYC Recruiting Meetup.  The video is a little raw, but the content provides a overview of their app and widget.  The Hire Syndicate is a third-paaty recruiter split network that gives third-party recruiters a desktop widget and iPhone app that constantly updates new placements and enables quick access to the jobs and candidates.

First five minutes is the demo, the second 5 minutes is Q&A from NY Recruiting Meetup members.  At the Meetup there were several other presentaions, those videos will be posted soon too…

About The NY Recruiting Meetup Network:

http://www.meetup.com/NYCRecruiting  The NY Recruiting Meetup Network believes in face-to-face meetups to learn from each other, network/socialize, and have a little fun. That’s why people love our brief 5-10 minute demos/presentation from our speakers.

Meet other local recruiters, HR professionals, ERE.net members, and hiring managers. Discuss topics including recruiting tactics, eRecruitment, social media, web 2.0/recruitment 2.0, talent management, best & next practices, and building business relationships.

First five minutes is the demo, the second 5 minutes is Q&A from NY Recruiting Meetup members.  At the Meetup there were several other presentaions, those videos will be posted soon too…

About The NY Recruiting Meetup Network:

http://www.meetup.com/NYCRecruiting  The NY Recruiting Meetup Network believes in face-to-face meetups to learn from each other, network/socialize, and have a little fun. That’s why people love our brief 5-10 minute demos/presentation from our speakers.

Meet other local recruiters, HR professionals, ERE.net members, and hiring managers. Discuss topics including recruiting tactics, eRecruitment, social media, web 2.0/recruitment 2.0, talent management, best & next practices, and building business relationships.

 The JA/ING Poll on kids and careers finds that a majority of teens are confident they will find their ideal career.  The JA credits “job shadowing” to be a way to introduce kids to careers and as a way to connecting what students learning the classroom to the real-world….

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The survey shows that JA Job Shadow is a proven-effective program that helps students learn hands-on about the world of work. The program provides engaging, academically enriching and experiential learning sessions in work-readiness education and career perspectives. JA also provides virtual Job Shadow experiences free of charge, where students can view more than 130 different job-specific videos to help them discover their career path.  The JA virtual Job Shadow experience is in partnership with DeVry University and is powered by a version for www.virtualjobshow.com, a leading career explorations service used by middle and high shcools teacher and counslors to teach kids about careers.

Gabrielle Ruiz, age 17, a senior at Houston’s Klein High School and a JA Job Shadow student, noted, “Job shadowing helped me decide what kind of career I want to pursue. After shadowing Tiffany Jackson of AT&T, I found I had the talent to excel at accounting. I am excited to pursue a career that I will love doing, and my JA participation has also helped me prepare for the workforce by showing me how to work with others and be part of a team.”

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In Addition, only 45 percent of Americans said they were satisfied with their jobs, which is a major drop from the 61 percent who said they were satisfied in 1987.  While the most recent economic downturn had something to do with it, this is has been a long term trend. See Chart 1 and 4 below.

This sentiment was crystal clear with the three HR professionals I had dinner with last night.  Here’s the story:

Part of the solution is  to engage top talent and find out how they are doing, reassess the work load of your employees, hire if needed….

Source of Data:
I Can’t Get No…Job Satisfaction, That Is: America’s Unhappy Workers
Research Report #1459-09-RR
The Conference Board

 Gavin Dunaway’s article is here and below.

ADOTAS – Baskin Robbins may still have 31 flavors, but November 2009 boasted more than 31 billion online videos viewed in the U.S., according to comScore. I’m a bit more impressed by the latter. It was the biggest month ever for online video viewing, with more than 170 million unique U.S. Internet users tuning in, each watching an average of 182 videos during the month. Google’s sites took the lion’s share, accounting for 39% or 12.2 billion of all videos viewed; 99% of those viewings were through YouTube. Google raked in 129 million unique viewers – with 94.7 videos viewed by each – compared to Yahoo!’s sites, which reached 55 million viewers (only 8.5 videos per each). Hulu trailed Google in views with 924 million (3%), while Viacom Digital claimed third place with 500 million (1.6%) and Microsoft sites followed with 480 million (1.5%). As for video ad networks, Tremor Media boasted the greatest potential reach with 85 million viewers (49.8% of the total viewing audience) and 20% penetration. Advertising.com had a potential reach of 80 million viewers (47.1%) and YuMe had 73 million (43%), while BBE and BrightRoll had 17.5% and 16.6% actual penetration, respectively

Thanks for reading some of my blog post this year. 

Have a safe, spectacular, successful, wonderful, joyful, exciting, prosperous, unique, and awesome 2010! You get the idea.

Happy New Year!