She wasn't desperately searching for a new job — but better benefits, a bigger salary and a boss who wasn't a creep would be nice. So when Hailey heard that the hard goods retailer she had always wanted to work for was recruiting a district manager to cover the Summit, NJ area where she lived, she jumped on it. A week later she received an invite for a video interview.
For an in-person meeting, Hailey (who asked that her last named not be used out of fear of career repercussions), says she would have worn a suit — but getting decked out to sit in front of her computer at her kitchen table seemed unnatural. "Like I was trying too hard," she notes. Besides, she was pretty sure the camera on her computer wouldn't capture anything below her neck unless she sat way back. (She knew this because she always had to back away from the screen to show her mother what she was wearing during their Sunday Skype sessions.)
NY Post: Brian Zak
CHATTERING CLASS:Kate Bocchio interviews potential new employee Alix Kraft for a job at BrightLine, a television ad firm, via Skype. Live video interviews are one way employers are using digital media to screen job candidates.
But her "interview" turned out to be anything but a casual online chat.
Hailey expected to have a virtual conversation with her boss-to-be — but when she logged in, there was no human being on the end. Instead, she was greeted by a question posed to her on her screen, and she was expected to answer it as her computer's webcam recorded her: 30 seconds to read a question, two minutes to answer. No one on other side to tell her how she was doing. No nod. No, "Tell me more."
"I rambled. I sounded like an idiot. I couldn't make a single point," she recalls. "It was weird."
Or maybe not so weird.
Welcome to interviewing circa 2013, when an increasing number of employers and recruiters are getting to know their job candidates via video — and not only via Skype or FaceTime. Video résumés, recorded elevator pitches and digitally recorded tests are just a few of the emerging tools employers are using to screen candidates.
According to an August 2012 survey by staffing service OfficeTeam, 63 percent of human resources managers said their company often conducts employment interviews via video, up from just 14 percent one year ago. And 13 percent of respondents think their organization will use video more frequently to meet with applicants in the next three years.
"Video interviews will be the norm in three years," confirms Ryder Cullison, a manager at human resources technology provider Hire-Intelligence.
And unlike the video interviews of yesteryear — which were used primarily when job candidates and employers were situated too far away from one another to meet in person — some of today's video interviews are simply one step of many in the job application process. Companies are now inviting job applicants to record their answers to interview questions via webcam so they can be viewed by multiple managers at any time, for instance. And they're presenting job candidates with live, timed online challenges such as composing clever tweets, preparing mock budgets and even coding computer programs.
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