Online Recruitment Blog

Meet Mark - The Walking CV!

I was on my way to a meeting in Canary Wharf yesterday when I came across Mark. Full  credit to him as he was standing outside in the cold trying to get noticed by potential employers.

I had my handheld video camera with me so I did a quick interview with Mark and offered to upload it onto YouTube for him.

I'm sure it is only a matter of time before he finds something and I wish him well!

 Mike

Video Recruitment - New Expert Interview With Lisa Scales - Talent on View

Online video is experiencing massive growth, but how can it help in the recruitment process?

I caught up with Lisa Scales who is a Director at Talent on View where they offer a web based video platform that enables Recruiters and Corporate businesses to use video at different stages of the recruitment process.

Lisa explains how video can help in the recruitment process and why Recruiters don't have to spend hours and hours looking at videos!

Running time 15mins 41secs.

To find out more about the service from Talent on View visit: www.talentonview.com

Mike

Web-Based-Recruitment.com

Adding Video To Your Web Site To Help Attract Star Talent

There was an interesting case study in Marketing Sherpa today about the use of online video in attracting star talent to a company.

Online video is certainly increasing in popularity and within the next few years companies will be seen to be different if they "don't" have online video as part of the carees web site.

You can view the article (free access until the 30th August) here: http://www.marketingsherpa.com/article.php?ident=30106

The company was Life Time Fitness and the key results were:

An increase in applications across the board:
o Manager applications - 30% increase
o Personal trainer applications - 29% increase
o Sales associate applications - 7% increase

Plus, the quality of those applicants has also increased.
- The number of manager applications that passed qualification pre-screening increased from 9% to 19%.
- The number of sales associate applications that passed qualification pre-screening increased from 29% to 37%.
- The number of personal trainer applications that passed qualification pre-screening increased from 30% to 38%.

Expect to see more examples of the use of video in the coming weeks as companies start to learn of these types of results.

Mike

www.web-based-recruitment.com

Mike Taylor On Dragons Den (well sort of)

I really enjoy watching Dragons Den where people come along and pitch their business idea to the five Dragons who then decide whether or not to invest in the business idea.

The BBC recently ran a challenge where you could submit a comedy video using BBC video clips from the show. Never one to miss a challenge I had a go and found out this morning that my video is on the BBC web site!

It was a bid of a rush to get it done on Friday so there are some things I would like to have done differently. But to make it through and get published on the BBC web site is a great feeling!

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/comedysoup/C55769

Thanks

Mike

Web-Based-Recruitment