YouTube, Video Resumes & P. Diddy
I’m sure you’ve heard about P. Diddy using YouTube to attract a new Personal Assistant. If you haven’t, Diddy has requested interested candidates upload their “video interview/resume” to YouTube with the proper tags. Personally I think Diddy’s video is well done and he’s successfully received over 500 candidate videos for FREE, so far.
Unfortunately, I don’t envision Corporate America following in the famous rappers footsteps, due to the high risk of possible discrimination cases when dealing with the visual nature of video. Today, hiring companies take great steps to ensure race and gender information is suppressed on every candidate, until chosen for interview, hence the unattractive nature of the video resume.
I do agree, video could possibly help the hiring process take a step forward, although “legally” it is in the hiring company’s best interest not to allow this new form of the resume into their system, building, or cross the corporate threshold.
How can a hiring company leverage video?
YouTube is currently being used as a valid recruiting and branding tool for companies to reach out to qualified candidates. Here are some practical examples of recruitment videos being uploaded to YouTube…
- Inside Google
- Cisco
- LAPD Series Vol 1, Vol 2, Vol 3
- LAPD Chief of Police
- LAPD LA Mayor
- United States Army
- United States Marines
- United States Air Force
- British Army
- Royal Navy
- Czech Army
and I thought I’d save the best for last!
- Become a Klingon?
Okay, so if the Klingon’s have recruitment videos on YouTube…
Seriously, what is your company waiting for?
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Like you I don’t see corporate American embracing video resumes but I think something’s got to give and eventually the use of video as a means for people to communicate online will be unavoidable.
I don’t think we are close to even realizing how big video will be. With the barrier to create video content so low, I think that video will be the most widely used source of communicating online, not just by publishers but by users(job seekers) as well.
For getting ‘writing on walls’ (facebook) or ‘commenting’ (myspace). Users will communicate with friends and network with video. They’ll also want to apply that way.
HR and Legal need to figure out how to prepare for this so to take advantage and not get in trouble.
But…I wouldn’t want to be the first company to embrace it..they’ll def. get sued by someone.
It isn’t about video resume at all. P. Diddy might as well be asking people to send in audition tapes because how they represent is more important in his business than what is on their resume. Video resumes are personal web sites with resumes attached to them. You don’t watch the video to see if their experience adds up, you watch their video to look for sparkle, creativity, and of course whether or not they did a good job. At some point the resume writers will add video production to their list of services provided, but for now it is all about what the individual does. In my book, if someone takes the time to do an extra credit project and that happens to get them noticed, good for them.
Bob,
Jobmatchbox.com
Since Diddy won’t be facing an EEOC audit, this whole process is much easier.
http://www.forbes.com/video/?video=fvn/lifestyle/jal_youtube072607
Good for Diddy and his new PA…
Bob, you should like Dr. Phil…. “If you read my book.. did you read my book… I wrote a book…” and don’t ask me how I know what Dr. Phil sounds like because I’ll blame my wife ;o)