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The video program + Bonus tips on how to improve your online interview arrives on LinkedIn

Hi Marketer!

If like us, you like LinkedIn Madness, you have to know it …

A few days ago, the platform announced two new ways to help candidates and recruiters improve their way of interacting and connecting themselves, facilitating one of the main functions of the platform.. It recruitment!

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Linkedin video recruitment

The start of a revolution for hiring?

First of all, with the increase in working interviews carried out at a distance, Linkedin works to publish its new «video introduction process» as soon as possible, or a new function which will allow the recruiters to ask the candidates a video presentation (or a response to a specific application / competence), to reduce the social gap to which we were forced to have been forced by COVID-199 for two months.

We can see an overview of the function in the screen below

As Linkedin explains:

«With the intro video, once you have received applications for a job publication, you can invite the most qualified candidates to answer up to two questions from a list of options that include questions, as» tell me about yourself «,» What is your greatest force? «, And» describe your most difficult project «.

Applicants can choose to submit their answers via a quick video recording or a written response. »»

Although the possibility of downloading a video is optional, it is impossible not to imagine the added value that a candidate «in the flesh» may have compared to the simple written response.

This is an important factor even if we are talking about temporal efficiency, with hundreds of CVs to consult, the video will not only stand out from his duties (as long as he knows how to have the right presence in front of the objective), but will help the recruiter select candidates faster, to make more precise and precise decisions thanks to video support.

Automated comments of interviews

To season everything, Linkedin seems to be about to even put a second tool called «automated comments from the interviews».

This new function has been designed to provide candidates who will try the new «Video CV» a series of direct comments in relation to their performance.

For example, if we go too far in our presentation – or if we use redundant terms and fight to reach the point, the new tool will bring it to the candidate thanks to an incorporated artificial intelligence which will examine his words by wire and by sign.

Not only will that, artificial intelligence also take into account the speed of words, to understand if excessive nervousness will lead the candidate to speak too quickly and eat the whole speech.

The release of this new tool will be a series of automatic and personalized comments on your way of exposing your presentation.

Here are some examples of comments that will make us have the system:

• Number of words per minute
• Redundant or inter-market words (e.g. EMH – UMH – EH))
• Filter for uncomfortable words or words

It is therefore legitimate to think that this new tool can also act as a training tool for candidates who are less used to speaking in front of the camera.

How to save your video

We also remember that the answers and the presentation will be recorded and then sent, this will allow all candidates to record more attempts, before choosing and sending the best version.

In our opinion, this tool represents a great innovation for hiring via Linkedin.

Our prediction is that some candidates – perhaps less efficient but with a high communication capacity in front of the objective, will obtain a greater response, a symptom of the fact that knowing how to communicate before the camera to date becomes more and more a fundamental and refined competence.

This seems to be a cunning decision of LinkedIn, in a situation where most of the interviews are already carried out remotely, why not build a system capable of improving this mechanism and at the same time facilitate the work of candidates and head hunters?

Is LinkedIn Video Recruitment the future?

Speech becomes even more interesting if we think in the future.

Now that even the most reluctant companies and people to marry video calls and smart work have had to compromise, this is the overview of A new normality? Both for hiring and for home work.

In our opinion, COVID19 has succeeded – and always manages – to remove the concept of work remotely, with all the consequences that bring this new approach, from the relationship with customers to the need to carry out HSHRING activities with the same efficiency as offline methodology.

Perhaps we have to prepare for a great imminent change, after this pandemic, we will probably have a more intelligent digital world, aware of the possibilities of an approach that had so far never been completely married (especially in our country).

We therefore promote this initiative of the LinkedIn platform with complete votes, and we look forward to seeing it in action!

To deepen even more. Take a look at the LinkedIn official blog.

And you, what do you think of this new possibility for candidates and the recruiter?

Let us know in the comments!

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