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6 Video Interview Tips You Need to Improve Candidate Experience

6 Video Interview Tips You Need to Improve Candidate Experience

by Josh Tolan on SparkWire.com

You’ve been using video interviews for a while and you think they’re great. They’ve helped to speed up your hiring process, identify the best candidates, and improve collaboration in candidate selection. You love video interviews, but do your job candidates feel the same way?

Video interviews, whether used for screening or for the main interview, are still part of the application process, and the candidate experience matters. After all, 77 percent of professionals surveyed by Linkedin this year said the interview experience is an extremely important deciding factor when choosing a new employer. In addition, 83 percent of respondents said a negative interview experience can change their mind about a company they liked, while 87 percent said a positive interview experience can change their mind about a company they were on the fence about.

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How can you make the process simple and pain free when you might not be engaging directly with candidates?

Just as you would for an in-person interview, you can find creative ways to give candidates the best experience possible while completing video interviews.

Use these video tips to create a better experience for candidates:

Set up the soap-box

Interviews are controlled by the employer. The interviewer asks the questions, guides the conversation, and sets the tone. The job candidate is essentially at your mercy — especially in a one-way video interview, when they don’t have a chance to directly ask you questions.

Give candidates their voice back, by adding an open-ended question to a one-way video interview. Open up the end of the interview for…

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