Have you experienced one of those one-way video interviews during a job search? It can feel a little intimidating to talk into your laptop camera, knowing it’s recorded and you’re not speaking live with another human being.
I recently helped my son prepare for one of these interviews. We focused on three main strategies to ensure his readiness.
Analyzing the job description
Talking with current and past employees
Preparing for this new type of interview
In this podcast episode (scroll up and hit play), I discuss each of these strategies in more detail.
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I’m Larry Cornett, a Freedom Coach who works with you to optimize your career, business, and life. My mission is to help you become a more "Invincible You" so you can live your life on your terms instead of being controlled by someone else's rules. I live in Northern California near Lake Tahoe with my wife and our Great Dane.
I hadn't heard of this style of interview and my initial thoughts are its so impersonal (not really my style) and lack of humanity and engagement with people (it's also what I love about my job as a recruiter). I understand the efficiency of this type of process, but my experience has always been that people don't like to be treated like "cattle" and when I worked at startups, we routinely beat out Google, Meta, Amazon, Apple due our high touch level of communication and personalization throughout the hiring process. I talked to hundreds of people, and it definitely took a lot of time, but I learned a lot about the role while talking to these people, and that communication I had with the people we moved forward with, helped me close candidates during the offer negotiation process. We were still able to move faster through texting/phone calls, emails than the slower/larger corporate companies.
Totally agree. I feel sorry for candidates being forced into these impersonal "auditions" before they can talk to a real person at the company.