Recruiting Has to Go Video, right.  Video, combined with the Internet, is a game-changer for recruiting, right, as Kevin Wheeler has stated recently. 

But I still hear it all the time - "How much for a video?," "It too expensive?"  In ADOTAS I came across an article that is retweeted below. This article answers the cost question very well, but the answer is it depends.  Read the article to see why.  When thinking strategically about your talent acquisition, a more important question is - "what will my ROI be."  I know HR "isn't" traditionally know to be good with numbers/math ...

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The Great Recession is in the ninth inning and the home team is up by one run.  As long as the other team doesn't ties it up, the recession is over.  As you can see, I am cautiously optimistic.  We have come a long way from the market panic in the fall on '08 and March '09 lows.  The "green shoots" we started to see in Q2 and Q3 have led to stock market rebound of almost 55%.  The stock market usually moves six months ahead of the real market.

The Conference Board said recently that its index of ...

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Bank of America welcomes visitors/candidates with a video host on its career site.  This adds engagement and personalizes the experience.

The video auto plays the first time you go to the career site and remebers you to not auto play again next time you visit the site, a nice feature.  You can replay the video by clicking Replay video host, although you do not have mute, pause, stop or other controls.  The welcome is also available in a transcript, nice touch in the spirit of the ADA.  One minor or odd thing, the video host looks like she's ...

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75 talent acquisition gurus turned out to discuss best practices in recruitment, in particularly, how to effectively use business networking at the NYC Recruiting & HR Network Meetup.  The Meetup.com group is adding about 50 new members per month.

The group beleives in face-to-face meetups to learn from each other, network/socialize, and have a little fun.  At this Meetup people discussed how to become a better Talent Acquisition guru (for yourself).  Tiger Woods can use a coach, so can recruiters.  Even recruiters and HR candidates make mistakes with ineffective "elevator speeches," ineffective networking mistakes candidates make "moving " through the ...

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In the past I've wondered what the value of the size of your network on LinkedIn and Twitter is with regards to hiring (Here on ERE, you can have followers too).  Today, I learned in a   MediaPost article, Is Twitter A Job Qualification #FAIL? (R/T below), that a Best Buy job description preferred job qualifications of a graduate degree and 250+ Twitter followers.

Companies want to sell a product or services, right?  Companies need to market or advertise their products or service, right?  All other things being equal, would you rather hire a bunch of employees that are ...

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Not only do social media companies move at internet speed, but they also move quickly to adopt social media recruitment strategies.  Ning, the let you create your own social network company, has added video to profile employees in a montage.   Ning needs to differentiate from Facebook and others and there recruitment provides a glimpse to what people do there.

We all seen recruitment video from internet companies like google, salesforce, Facebook, yahoo, etc..  Here's Ning's.

View their open positions

It seem like they understand the Medici effect, Ning spotlights "jaw-dropping" diversity at Ning.

As predicted, MySpace continued restructuring, with layoffs, ect.  To be fair, many companies have had layoffs, including your perhaps.  Even google had layoffs.

MySpace is said to be cutting 300 European and closing 4 international offices with others under review.

MySpace already laid off about of its staff US staff, down to 1000 people, with no current plans for more layoffs.

So, what are companies doing now on MySpace.  What's some current live examples that you can point too? 

Quicken Loans once (maybe still is) used the site for recruiting sales and finance professionals.  To source employees (especially, hourly ...

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I've saved you the work of figuring out who recruitment video below is from, because that's what I do for this Recruitment Video 2.0 blog.  The video is from Skype. I stumbled upon a recruitment video that had no company brand and only a link to http://www.myjobhasexpired.com, In addition, the user that posted the video was "meaningfulwork" on YouTube.  "Meaningful work", thats why I'm in this business, to help people find meaningful work.   I was courious, so I went to http://www.myjobhasexpired.com, which is just a "landing page." From there I ...

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 there's about 10 different kinds of recruitment videos. One of them is  a humorous videos demonstrating that your firm is a fun place. 

You'll be speechless. Who at E&Y actually sign off on this ?  This E&Y vid does show a humorous side, but most of the people in the video don't really seem like they are into this "We are the world" video.  This video is from 2001, but still, was that the kind of "fun" they had on a normal basis?

When you want to get it right contact Career Corner Digital 800-948-7516 ext ...

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Facebook developed a hi-def video illustrating how the company's engineers handle almost 2,000 photo uploads per second and manage more than 40 billion photos.  They work in small groups and have lots of creative flexibility, so says one engineer.

Video is shot in wide-screen format 16:9 ratio.  Video provides glimpse in the workplace, walking around their super-clean datacenter, hanging out in their high-tech office and fun activities like playing frisbee.  What engineer wouldn't want to work there?

The Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP)hires for many positions; Doctors, Correctional Officers, Chaplains, Shipping and Receiving, Accountants, Teachers, Recreation Specialists, Secretaries, Food Service Supervisors and Facilities/Maintenance staff to name just a few.

To give candidates a glimpse into those careers and life at the BOP they have created several videos. 

An improvement would be to do a better job of optimizing and distributing the videos. Once optimized and distributed candidates will easily find the videos on Yahoo, Google, Blinkx.com, Metacafe, Veoh and other sites. 

Here's their current videos:

 Federal Bureau of Prisons General Info

 Counseling Careers ...

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Unleash the �??3rd Screen�?? Recruitment Video

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So you�??re interest in using video in your recruitment or employment branding strategy.  You can have it done professionally or give it shot yourself.  You�??ll be able to accomplish a DIY video by follow this advice.  But, if you prefer to get help you can contact Career Corner Digital or Broadway Video can help. 

Why not use video, right.  Online video is everywhere, 76% of Gen Y watch online video regularly, of all other internet users 57% of watch online video too (maybe higher now).  Plus, people are 71% more like to recall a message after watching a ...

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Imperfect pitch

The economic crisis has already cost tens of thousands of Americans their jobs and millions more some fraction of their wealth. The carnage will undoubtedly continue. But oddly enough, recruitment videos for the crippled giants of our financial industry remain online and functional. Illogical? Bizarre, even? Of course! But as we�??re seeing today, economies are founded on bizarre illogic. And the videos are poignant and funny.

�??Merrill Lynch Executives�?? has a jaunty soundtrack, talking heads, and interviews with executives who look like ...

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I came across the following articles about Video Resumes.  It certainly know it works if your job is TV related (AKA a reel), it can work for people if your job requires public speaking too.  It�??ll work if you are an athlete (video with highlights).  Last time I check there are very few agents and sports talent scout/recruits on ERE.

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CareerBuilder Ends Video Resume Experiment, but that doesn't mean video resumes don't work.  Video resumes DO work they are called "reels"!!  Here's a sample one at http://www.ralphieaversa.com/

If your job requires you to be on "air" or speak publicly then a "video resume/reel" will work today.  In the "future" candidate generated video resumes might work too.   I tried user-generated video resumes in 2000 when I was at JobRiot and the video did not work then.  Now, 8 years later there is more take in HR, but more need to be acheived, who will ...

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Who has TiVo?  For those that do, you cannot imagine TV without it.  I believe those that have on-demand video interviewing may feel the same way.  The process of interviewing and selecting candidates can be challenging, costly and inefficient.  Scheduling and time zone differences can make initial phone and live interviews challenging and not the best ways to use the valuable time of your recruiters and managers. 

 One solution that is catching on with employers like Google, Adecco and Rio-Tinto is video interviewing, I�??m not talking about live video conferencing, but instead on-demand pc �??based and web-based webcam interviewing ...

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