Video Resumes Adoption on the Rise

(This article is the third part of a series that analyzes the world’s view on video resumes.)

According to a Wall Street Journal article “Wooing Job Recruiters with Video Resumes” companies are increasingly offering multimedia capabilities that go way beyond the old one-page paper résumé. 

Citing a 2008 survey conducted by staffing firm Robert Half International Inc., the article says video component helps to present a clearer picture of a candidate, especially if it's a role that requires people skills.

In India, video resumes are in the initial stages of adoption. However, considering the rapid adoption of broadband technologies, popularity of video resumes is estimated to shoot up in the coming years.

Several leading companies in India have already adopted video technology to augment their recruitment process. Indian IT major Wipro has implemented an IP video technology from Nortel to filter prospective candidates from the large pool of job applicants.

A company that recruits about 15-20 thousand employees a year, Wipro was faced with the challenge of reducing turnaround time of its recruitment cycle. Being a prominent IT recruiter, Wipro also confronted the issue of fake resumes.

A case study from Biztech2.com done on Wipro’s implementation of video phones for recruitment shows that the company was able to face these challenges effectively using the video recruitment infrastructure.

A video resume is especially beneficial for big companies like Wipro where a big panel of interviewers need to decide on one candidate. A single video clip can save their valuable time attending the recruitment session. A video can be accessed anywhere anytime, and they can discuss the candidature with other members of the panel effortlessly. All these features make video resumes a good option, especially for jobs in BPO or Sales or Media.

Video resume adoption in India is challenged by lack of professionalism. Few years back, a popular job portal in India introduced video resumes in its Web site; however, it did not get the desired popularity because there were no efforts from the company to support the candidates on creating and uploading the video in a professional manner.

The need of the hour is a professional video resume service that can motivate job seekers, especially the fresh candidates, to adopt such innovative ideas to sell their personality to prospective employers. 

The other challenge lies in the difficulty of accessing a video and the bandwidth costs associated with such a service. Most employers feel it’s an additional burden on them as those heavy files waste a lot of time and bandwidth of their business.

Professional video resume services like Koozba.com can offer a cost-effective solution to these dilemmas. The service offered by companies like Koozba.com gives professional guidance to candidates for preparing video resumes and help them get connected to prospective employers through effective networking on their job portal.

As recruiters are able to view the video resumes in Koozba’s portal, they don’t have to download any video on their server. The videos available in these job portals follow the standard video format and are made compact so that they are easily retrieved whenever required. These services charge a nominal fee from the employers – much lower than the cost incurred by getting them on their own business site.