#FIRMday Birmingham 7th May Adam Gretton Sonru 'Video Interviewing Masterclass'

Video Interviewing:

Best Practices & The Data That

Supports ThemAdam Gretton

Agenda• Why Use Video Interviews?

• What to Ask Yourselves

• Basic Tips

• What Does the Data Tell Us?

Why Video Interviews?• Massive Time Savings

• Innovative & new technology

• Everyone else is doing it, shouldn’t we?

• Get to the better quality candidates faster

• See the body language

• Still not overly common

Where Does It Fit In?

Application / CV

Online / Psychometric

Test

Video / Phone

Interview

Face to Face / Assessment

CentreHire

Selection Process

1. COGNITIVE TESTS

2. SONRU VIDEO INTERVIEW

3. BEHAVIOURAL TESTS

4. ASSESSMENT CENTRE

5. SONRU VIDEO INTERVIEW

6. FINAL INTERVIEWS

OFFER

ONLINE APPLICATION

Assessment Top 10

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Technical Testing

Soft Skills Testing

Appearance / Background Setting

Language Testing

Cultural Fit

Thought Process / Enthusiasm

Body Language

Content of Answers

Overall Performance

Communication Skills

Agenda• Why Use Video Interviews?

• What to Ask Yourselves

• Top Tips & Best Practices

• What Does the Data Tell Us?

What to Ask Yourselves

• What do we want from the candidate?

• How will they be best able to show us this?

• Would we get more from the question with a follow up

question?

• Is it adding time into the process?

Agenda• Why Use Video Interviews?

• What to Ask Yourselves?

• Top Tips & Best Practices

• What Does the Data Tell Us?

Top Tips & Best Practices• It Starts with the Invite

• Explaining process in invite mail increases response rates

• Job Title – Make it Informative & Engaging

• Manager vs Manager, Social Media & Online Community

• Setting Deadlines

• Allow 4-5 Days to complete, include a weekend & a workday

Top Tips & Best Practices• Take time to create Good questions

• Create a robust question library – saves time

• Test role play situations

• Is the question best answered using this method?

• Ask questions that check a candidates passion

Accessibility

• Extra time?

• Extra Person?

• Full Practice Run?

Agenda• Why Use Video Interviews

• What to Ask Yourselves

• Basic Tips

• What Does the Data Tell Us?

200,000 Insights

Video Interviewing - Seniority

Video Interviewing by Role

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10%

20%

30%

40%

Support /Multilingual

IT Engineering /Science

Education Sales / Marketing /Retail

HR / Recruitment Finance Hospitality Health / Pharma

2011 2014/15

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Interview Completion Data

Mobile for all ages

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25%

Under 34

35-55

55 upwards

200,000 Insights

• More data & insights available

• White paper available for download soon from Sonru.com

Agenda• Why Use Video Interviews

• What to Ask Yourselves

• Basic Tips

• What Does the Data Tell Us?

• Questions?

ContactAdam Gretton

Senior Business Development

[email protected]

+44 (0)7739 737274

https://uk.linkedin.com/in/adamgretton