Hirevue.com Can Change The Way You Interview And Hire

Written by jeffbarson
on August 19th, 2006 / 3 Comments / Print this

Hirevue.com is changing the way that businesses hire.

Hirevue is run by an entrepreneur named Ryan Money (you can read his blog, Money Talks, here).

Ryan started Hirevue with an idea to use technology to eliminate the majority of useless interviews that a manager has to make before making a hiring decision.

Hirevue works like this. Hirevue sends out a small video camera to a potential hire, or an individual location can use a computer where people can take their first interview with a camera. (This cost’s about $20 per interview I think. Sending the camera costs more.) The company conducting the interview asks whatever questions that they would like, and the person taking the interview has roughly between 10 and 20 minutes to respond. You can ask a very technical question, very detailed questions, or basic questions to judge what the applicant’s response will be. The video is uploaded into a database that is entirely searchable and can be used by any number of people to screen the applicants.

It is not a way to hire people. It’s way to narrow down the field from say 10 applicants down to three that you’re actually going to really interview. As an example, Kennecott Copper uses this service. In the past, Kennecott was forced to fly-in from around the world engineers that were in high demand - they might fly in ten or twelve of them. Now, they send out Hirevue cameras for $120, and they end up only flying in three, which saves their cash.

Service Medical Spas, my company, is starting to use Hirevue on a location basis where we have an applicant come in for a video job interview, almost like keeping their resume. They come in and take a video interview that is then pre-screened by the office or location managers and then kicked upstairs for further assessment.

Hirevue.com saves a huge amount of time on the front end and allows our hiring practices to become much more collaborative. We also keep the interviews on file for potential hires that are not an immediate fit but might be later. Hirevue is a great service that works.

Jeff Barson