With an average cost of $1,000 for an in-person interview (air fare, hotel, meals, etc.), more and more companies are interviewing applicants by webcam. Although it might not be as good as having the prospective employee sitting in the company office, it’s better than a telephone interview, since body language, facial expressions, etc., in a webcam [...]
We’re lucky that employers frequently carve out time (and budget) to make visits to campus to conduct interviews, attend job fairs, and get to know students face-to-face. Realistically, there are many organizations where travel is not a possibility. And vice versa, you probably don’t want to spend money or your free time to travel for [...]
For several decades, employers have been utilizing video conferencing in order to communicate with their internal staff orclients without having to fly people around the country. Video interviewing can help employers to assess from the interview the skill and confidence of the candidates by reviewing all the video interviews held. Read more: http://www.recruitingblogs.com/profiles/blogs/how-to-conduct-successful
The pain of sifting through stacks of similar looking resumes and then coordinating follow up phone or face to face interviews leaves much to be desired. This process takes up so much time, and in the end, we can’t even be sure whether we are interviewing the most outstanding candidates, or the ones who only [...]
To save on interviewing costs, companies are turning to their computers instead of phones and offices to conduct interviews, including using programs like Skype to conduct long-distance or even international initial interviews. Read more: http://jobsearch.about.com/od/jobinterviewtypes/a/skypevideo.htm
