Video Interviewing – Why Recruiters Don’t Use It!!!

Why? In fact, the value proposition conveyed by Video Interviewing companies is really irresistible! They tell you, “imagine that you get to see your candidate, imagine you get to see how they behave during the interview, imagine if you don’t have to conduct face-to-face interviews ever”!

But all of the above doesn’t work; it continues to remain in one’s imagination and hardly converts to reality! If the value indeed was true, companies could have simply used free Skype and done video interviews, but almost no company we know uses Skype as a key technology for interviewing…

You can ask any recruiter in the company who bought such video interviewing platforms and he/she will say, “I just don’t use it”!

Here’s why…

1. Almost no candidate responds to request for video interviews instantly; the recruiter has to invariably call the candidate repeatedly to have him/her response to the request.

2. If the candidate is really desperate for a job and is compelled to do the video, they will only do it on a weekend or when they have ample time and courage to do it.

3. Over 60% of the world’s population is introverted; hence extremely uncomfortable and conscious of the thought of how they will be perceived in a video. Because of this hesitation, they avoid taking a chance altogether.

So now you can see, the issue is not about video technology or bandwidth consumption; it’s about response rate, response time and willingness of the candidate to do it.

In comparison, an audio interview over phone continues to deliver significantly faster results, because candidates are used to phone calls from recruiters. This is where reckrut.com, a smart audio interview platform, provides a better use case than any video interview platforms.