Listen now | Including those new one-way video interviews. 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 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.
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.