Comments on: CareerBuilder Ends Video Resume Experiment

By: Ernest Feiteira

Ernest Feiteira — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:46:59 +0000

Video resumes work……
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.

More on “Video 2.0 for Recruitment” at http://www.ere.net/blogs/video_20/

By: Video Resumes work, but not for CareerBuilder « Ohreallly’s Weblog

Video Resumes work, but not for CareerBuilder « Ohreallly’s Weblog — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 18:39:51 +0000

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By: CareerBuilder ends Video Resume functionality « The Vipe Blog

CareerBuilder ends Video Resume functionality « The Vipe Blog — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 22:35:25 +0000

[...] name in the space, CareerBuilder, has stopped its video resume functionality. Check out the article here on [...]

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13 years of IT Recruiting and still going… | IT Hire Wire — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:43:54 +0000

[...] The market is constantly changing There will always be some great new technology that every company wants candidates to have experience with, but no one does because of the very nature of the technology being new to the market. [...]

By: 080903 Daily Links for Recruiters (Sep 03, 2008) | johnsumser.com: Recruiting News and Views

Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:04:22 +0000

[...] Gannett Pays Tribune $135 Million To Acquire Majority Stake In CareerBuilder Here’s the release. This investment pegs the value of CareerBuilder at $1.35B or 55% of the value of MNST. On a related (minor) note…IBD on JobCentral….CB jettisoned its video resume experiment [...]

By: Why video resumes won’t become mainstream (part III) « The Vipe Blog

Why video resumes won’t become mainstream (part III) « The Vipe Blog — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:13:19 +0000

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By: The Future of the Video Resume « Recruiting Impact

The Future of the Video Resume « Recruiting Impact — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:51:56 +0000

[...] and incorporated an upload/view capability in order to test the viability. According to this article by John Zappe on ERE, CareerBuilder found that usage of the video resume just wasn’t there [...]

By: Jay Gold

Jay Gold — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:08:44 +0000

CareerBuilder did not market the video product correctly. I tried to send my candidates there and it was too difficult. I then found another job board, FutureResume.com who offers a video introduction for free. I send my candidates to their office and they produce a video introduction in about 15 minutes. I think you can also do it from you own computer also. It is an awesome product! The best thing about it is that my candidates own the URL and can send it to anyone. It is the best solution I have seen so far! They also have a new video conferencing solution…way less then Kinkos and you can do it from your desktop!!
JL
Executive Recruiter

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CareerBuilder Ends Video Resume Experiment « — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 23:52:31 +0000

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By: Martha Lempicke

Martha Lempicke — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:30:13 +0000

Part of the acceptance problem is the effort involved by the candidate to do a good quality video resume, let alone a good MS Word resume. OptimalResume.com has a video resume service in hundreds of universities that provides a script writer, teleprompter and all kinds of styling options. Makes it easy using your webcam and mic. Here is an example.
http://university.confidentialresume.com/scholarship/videoresume.php

Seems to me the multimedia approach makes sense and we will eventually be conducting online interviews and looking at clips from candidates we are interested in as the norm. International searches especially.

By: Jaque al video curriculum? :: MonReal

Jaque al video curriculum? :: MonReal — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:20:29 +0000

[...] esta mañana en ERE (nada que ver con regulaciones de empleo) que CareerBuilder se echa atrás con su proyecto de CVs [...]

By: Bryan StLaurent

Bryan StLaurent — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:14:03 +0000

I would like to add that structured, job specific, employer driven video interviews are not a ‘bad idea,’ or ‘before-their-time.’ They are working quite well on a worldwide basis, and just about any time there are factors of time, distance, transportation or mobility in getting people ultimately to the F2F situation.

Video clips that are job seeker or candidate driven, are a basketcase, unworkable, and full of risk as I’ve commented on elsewhere.

Why do job boards promote them? Because they want to do anything they can to drive candidates to their site in a highly competitive business even when their revenue comes from employers who pay their fees.

Video interviewing as a Saas offering to employers on a job board is still more than viable, but I’m sure boards will move to something like an avatar offering before doing something that makes sense.

By: Video Resumes: A bad Idea | dcheadhunter.com

Video Resumes: A bad Idea | dcheadhunter.com — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:21:00 +0000

[...] to this post, CareerBuilder tested an idea in a market that was not quite ready for it. To be honest, as a [...]

By: Bryan Chaney

Bryan Chaney — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 19:04:59 +0000

Video clips of candidates are only a waste of time if they’re not the candidates you’re interested in. Imagine presenting quality video interviews of short-listed candidates to hiring managers on high profile searches. Candidates who look perfect on paper might not have the same presence in person, thus saving untold amounts of time and money in the interview process. More often than not, the top candidate is brought in for contract negotiation or final interviews rather than starting the process from scratch. Remember, value is all about perspective.

By: Andy Newport

Andy Newport — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:38:09 +0000

Video clips of candidates are a total waste of time – recruiters don’t have time to review them, quality generally is awful or is costly to achieve, they are too generic for specific opportunities and they eat up bandwidth. It is beyond me why a large brand name headhunter should have invested in such a product if Career Builder can’t make a go of it.
Why do investors continue to throw away money on technologies like this which given even a limited amount of industry knowledge would be seen to be wanting? Why does the recruitment industry continue to fall over itself with investments in these expensive trinkets which add no value to the recruitment process. Just ask a recruiter!

By: Bryan StLaurent

Bryan StLaurent — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:51:54 +0000

Any good analyst with prior knowledge in the field could have predicted this would go nowhere. It did. Oh well, so much for expertise…

Video interviews have to be employer driven in the labor exchange process, but, who’s listening…

Bryan St.Laurent
HireVue.com