Blog Entries for Justin Hillier

Is your social media strategy, 120, 240 or 360 degrees.

justinhillier@talentonview.com — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:00:00 +0100

So chances are you have heard of social media and you have a strategy in place to reap the benefits of the new wave of interaction that is now available to us all. You are using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Youtube, Xing, Delicious, Digg, ah the list goes on and on.

Your strategy is sourcing you a great deal of traffic and to date you have somewhat figured out there is a benefit in doing all of this and you are starting to see some return for your efforts. Well done, this [...]

An interesting concept - not really, just proof that video works.....

justinhillier@talentonview.com — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 01:00:00 +0100

I have watched with interest lately that CNN are promoting job seekers to their audience in an effort to help them secure a job. The candidate records their profile, stating what experience they have and what it is they are looking for. To date it has had great success with most of the candidates securing interviews and jobs.

With the job market the way it is, what are job boards and recruiters doing in the way of video to help their candidates promote themselves via video. Many pe [...]

The new �Screening Tool�

justinhillier@talentonview.com — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 01:00:00 +0100

Video Applications

The interview process has long been some what of a insulated and protected process, that no one dare suggest we conduct them any other way then face to face. Sure we have initial phone interviews to gauge whether a candidate is actually human, and can put more than 3 words together coherently, however face to face is seen as KING when we determine whether or not we should hire a prospective candidate.

But what if technology can assist and supp [...]

Candidates are ready for Video!!!

justinhillier@talentonview.com — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 01:00:00 +0100

A report today showed that Jobsite has reported that 54,000 jobhunters have sat a virtual job interview with Duncan Bannatyne via the BeMyInterviewer service, with over 210,000 unique users visiting the site in the last year. The service’s most popular question was “I’ve interviewed 20 people for this job, why should I employ you?” which was accessed on average every 50 minutes.

Clear proof that candidates are eating up video content on job sites and clearly w [...]