The Power of Video Interviews in the 21 st Century with Huddle Recruit

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1 The Power of Video Interviews in the 21 st Century with Huddle Recruit Page 1

2 INTRODUCTION The Internet has taken visual communications, audio and videoconferencing, and collaboration into mainstream daily use whether in the business world or in the consumer world. The advent of video communication applications and social networking solutions such as Facebook, Google, Skype, Apple Face Time and dozens of other services, has resulted in consumers and workers all over the world becoming familiar with the multiple benefits derived from seeing colleagues, customers, partners, friends, family and suppliers during meetings and conversations. However, most technology in this area is very limited in its functionality particularly where there is a requirement for real time collaboration. Many enterprises are still struggling to have users adopt videoconferencing and collaboration because of the complexity of the systems and the inflexibility caused by forcing workers to use special equipment in special rooms on special networks, as well as the extensive cost of such solutions. Videoconferencing has emerged as an important collaborative tool that can remove geographical boundaries, encourage frequent discussions between disparate business units, increase productivity, reduce costs and deliver a competitive advantage. However, there are new solutions that are being made available in the market that are altering these dynamics rapidly and are providing users with solutions that better meet their needs. New video collaboration solutions particularly those that are Cloud based are simplifying matters and enabling improved internal and external business collaboration, for example in more efficient recruiting (see Huddlerecruit.com), streamlined business- to- business (B2B) and business- to consumer (B2C) communications as well as a wide range of distance learning and training applications. Video Collaboration making the Enterprise more agile Video Collaboration can impact an enterprise in multiple ways, but in certain fields such as video interviewing it can also significantly impact an individual as well. Some of the key benefits and business areas that Video collaboration can impact are noted below: Video Collaboration does enhance productivity within an organisation Video Collaboration acts as a catalyst for increased collaboration, just like the advent of open planned offices Video Collaboration enables faster and more personal communication between participants. Video Collaboration delivers significant cost savings as people do not need to travel whilst also making collaboration more global. Video Collaboration is a green solution as travel costs are reduced. Video Collaboration is a tool for leveraging the benefits of globalization. Video Collaboration has major impact across an enterprise's lines of business in areas such as those identified below: o Human resources o Sales and Marketing o Project Management o Research and development o Production o Legal and finance Page 2

3 The New Human Resources Paradigm: Improved productivity, compliance and morale The advent of new video collaboration technologies, particularly with the breadth of functionality of HuddleRecruit, has fundamentally transformed the Human resources benefits from using video collaboration tools to enable better management of HR functions from performance reviews to recruitment. The key advantages of the HuddleRecruit platform are as follows: 1. Candidate Management Authorised users can create new positions online; obtain approval from senior managers on reviewed resumes and candidates that are to be invited to interview. Meeting invitations can be sent to invited candidates allowing interviewers and interviews to manage their calendars. Authorised users can instantly access every completed interview online. In addition, administrators can customize interviews, assess and rate completed interviews, and create reports. Authorised users can also give limited access to other hiring managers or clients to create custom interviews, invite candidates, or view certain groups of completed interviews. Page 3

4 2. International Recruitment and Reviews The beauty of Huddle recruit is that neither participant in an interview or a review meeting needs to leave their home location. The power of the internet and video collaboration allows the participants to feel more comfortable as if they were in the same room together. It allows for collaboration to take place using the whiteboard or document sharing or even the completion of pre- loaded evaluation forms. There are significant cost savings and efficiency savings from the use of such a tool. 3. Reduce Time to Hire The Huddle recruit platform with its recording capability allows the Pre- recorded interviews to be shared between hiring manager and each candidate can be rated and screened more effectively than traditional methods. The ability to conduct real time live recorded interviews either one to one or a panel interview reduces the scheduling time involved in setting up second or third interviews. The post production capability allows rapid decision making when making the final hiring decision. 4. Video Post- Production and Playback of Interviews Huddlerecruit allows you to record interviews on demand at anytime. After reviewing resumés, you can instantly invite qualified candidates to conduct interviews using the meeting invitation capability of the platform. Using a webcam, candidates can record responses to tailored, pre- recorded question sets or connect with you on a live video conference interview. In addition to the questions that are asked, you can control the response length and the number of retries each candidate has during the interview process. Huddlerecruit is the only solution that offers full real time synchronised recording that captures the meeting completely including all documents shared as well as the whiteboard and chat functionality. The videos can be edited if required and the edited or unedited versions can be shared and viewed by any authorised participant. Huddlerecruit allows video interviews to be tagged at any point so that on post production you can choose the key summary tag points to allow you to edit the recording for distribution to different interested parties. It allows you to fast forward, rewind or jump as if you are watching a blu ray dvd live. 5. Quality and Compliance It provides Human Resources departments with the tools to ensure users follow internal policies on all major activities and comply with all legal requirements for whatever type of meeting is being conducted. It provides a complete transparent record of all meetings so that such recordings can be used later if required. The tools in HuddleRecruit provide User departments with Process and feedback tools to help provide closed- loop feedback. Captured digital meeting help slash sourcing time and costs. HuddleRecruit lets you send the same documents to all meeting attendees. It enables question- level response ratings, side- by- side comparisons, replay controls and closed- loop feedback that can improve feedback visibility and impartiality. The ability to share meeting recordings with collaborative rating and commenting tools allows users to make quicker, more collective decisions. This works well for distributed global and regional organisations that need to collaborate together in multiple locations. It facilities collaborations both internally and externally in a totally secure environment. Page 4

5 6. Process Improvement internally and externally Huddle Recruit offers a tool that not only improves processes internally but also externally. It can be used by external recruiters on your behalf or can be used by your own internal recruiters. Since all steps in the process can be recorded there is a complete audit trail of communication between your organisation and the candidate. Even after the candidate is hired as an employee, you can use Huddle Recruit to conduct performance reviews, or to conduct any other internal HR meeting so ensuring that there is complete compliance with corporate standards and the legal regulatory framework that you may operate in. Conclusion HuddleRecruit offers Human resources departments a tool that can radically improve the operations of the Human Resources function and is to the benefit of any organisation. HuddlRecruit provides tools that can help improve business process efficiency, manage and reduce the costs of operation whilst at the same time providing a better service to its employees. Page 5