1. Interview More Candidates
Arranging and carrying out video interviews takes a lot less time than conducting a face-to-face interview. By eradicating the arrival and sign-in process, cutting out the potential of late arrivals, and ceasing the need to factor in the schedule of both the interviewer and the candidate in finding a suitable time to meet in person, video interviews allow you to meet more candidates in the same space of time. They will enable you to meet more good candidates or even allow for quick screening of those candidates on the fence regarding requirements and uncover hidden gems.
2. Save Hiring Managers’ Time
From scheduling headaches and hiccups to late arrivals and resume exaggerations – meeting for face-to-face interviews can often mean giving lots of time to candidates who turn out to be unsuitable. Video interviews can be completed much sooner given the lack of travel required, enabling hiring managers to fit interviews into a small gap in their schedule rather than carve out full mornings and afternoons for a series of in-person meetings. So, when you video interview the inevitable unmatched candidates, they take up a lot less of the hiring manager’s time and allow them to interview more candidates and get on with their day.
It is also worth noting that recruiters can interview more candidates by video in any given time frame. That means that internal or external recruiters will be able to screen more applications via video, increasing the quality of candidates who reach the hiring manager, reducing the risk of them interviewing unsuitable candidates. Saving hiring manager’s time ultimately affects their efficiency and leaves more space for the strategic aspect of their job.
3. Reduce Your Carbon Footprint
Sustainability is becoming vital to business processes, so employers need to reduce their negative impact in every way possible – including recruitment. Video interviews altogether remove the need for candidates to travel to you, meaning either party carries out no flights or car journeys.
With the Covid-19 pandemic proving to businesses worldwide that conferences, meetings, and recruiting can operate perfectly smoothly via remote communication, this is a tremendous accidental benefit of remote hiring.
4. Improve Interview Attendance Rates
Unless serious emergency crops up or somebody is taken ill, both parties are far less likely to cancel or miss the interview if they can dial in from anywhere in the world. At the same time, face-to-face interviews are easily derailed by a bad cold, train cancellations, or even a change of heart from a candidate who decides against making the 1 hour trip to your office. The reduced travel and commitment required from candidates and hiring managers means that a higher percentage of interviews are likely to be conducted as planned, once again leaving you with a bigger pool of candidates at the end of the interview round.
5. Find the Best Candidates Faster
With hiring managers keen to get the right candidate in place for their vacancies as quickly as possible, this is by far the most crucial benefit of video interviews for businesses. The culmination of interviewing more candidates, reducing the hiring manager’s involvement, and increasing interview attendance rates will lead to a better candidate pool building in a shorter space of time. That will ultimately lead to hiring better candidates faster than competitors can reach them. It will also mean reduced costs for the business by decreasing the amount of time and resources spent recruiting for each role. And as an added benefit, it’s also better for the planet and saves candidates’ time and money.
