Employer Video Good, Video Resume Bad
Helen Luttemo, Director of CareerTV PR, called me a few weeks ago in direct response to my video posts. She immediately agreed with my assessments (I immediately liked her) regarding the corporate opportunity to leverage video for recruitment (Good news for CareerTV) but more importantly agreed that video resumes were not the future and CareerTV will be abandoning them altogether.
Why?
Helen cited two main reasons, 1) no video resume standard, the format is just too nebulous, and 2) no chance of adoption due to the high likelihood of losing discrimination cases. I also agree with the following comment I found posted on Cheez from David Manaster which states “…the real kiss of death for video resumes is that there is currently no effective way to review them quickly“, meaning recruiters who quickly glaze over hundreds of resumes a day could not do the same with video resumes. But I digress since the two former points are plenty of reason to hit the eject button on this idea.
Hey if you don’t try ideas you’ll never know if it works… Even the silly ones.
CareerTV is moving in the right direction…
Helen was kind enough to send me their latest press release, which included great quotes from Maureen Crawford with Osram Sylvania, a DirectEmployers Member. I’ll be calling Maureen for some additional insight.
STAY TUNED…
I strongly disagree. WiIl an employer get sued for not hiring a person after meeting them in an in office interview? It’s the same thing. Only a video resume will save EVERYONE time in the screening process.
Duely noted.
Corporate America cannot embrace video resumes 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, gender, age, etc. information is suppressed on every candidate, until chosen for interview, hence the unattractive nature of the video resume.
You truly have to understand the rules of the game before taking a stance.