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6 Benefits Of Incorporating Video Into Your Recruitment Process

Traditionally recruitment has been a lengthy and arduous task for any business. Advertising jobs, speaking to recruiters, trawling through endless CVs and applications and then spending hours interviewing unsuitable candidates. 

Why in the digital world we live in are some employers and recruitment agencies still relying on a CV to select candidates to interview. We are in the 21st century whereby we are all using digital innovation to do everything in our lives so, why should recruitment be any different? Covid has made businesses rethink their process and we’ve seen companies using platforms such as Zoom to interview candidates, but there’s so much more video can do for your business.

6 Steps To Attracting Top Talent in 2021

As businesses put 2020 behind us and look forward to a new year, we reflect on the lessons learned.

Employees can work from home and be productive, you can on board new team members remotely, mental health and employee welfare became front of mind, communication was key to check in on employees and drive engagement, we figured out the benefits of MS Teams and Zoom and we trusted our teams. We evolved quicker than expected and used innovation to move our businesses forward, much quicker than any of us had planned.

How to Attract Top Talent in 2021

And somehow in the blink of an eye 2020 draws to a close, a year we will never forget. As businesses put the year behind us and look forward to a new year, we reflect on the lessons we have learnt as business owners and senior leaders.

Employees can work from home and be productive. Your team do care about the business. We became aware just how important mental health is. Communication was key to check in on employees and drive engagement. We figured out the benefits of MS Teams and Zoom and we were creative with our teams. We evolved quicker than expected and used innovation to move our businesses forward.

How to conduct interviews online

With there being no signs of returning back to the office for most anytime soon, businesses are assessing how they continue to conduct candidate interviews in order to continue to more their business forward. With many people still working from home and the majority of firms interviewing and on boarding new team members via zoom, it's important that as a business you have a strategy to recruitment during these strange times.

As such it’s important you give real thought and consideration in order to get it right first time as an unpolished process can come across as unprofessional and damage your employer brand and reputation in the area.

87% of UK workers would consider a new role, right now

According to the latest data from LinkedIn’s Workforce Confidence Index, one third of the UK workforce is actively looking for a new job whilst a further 26% of workers are casually looking for a new job and 30% – while not actively looking – are open to the right offer. This means that only 13% of workers are not looking and not interested in any new opportunities right now.