Small and Medium enterprises deal with an inherent challenge of maintaining their cost of operations. Especially when the cost is related to talent acquisition, SMEs are always looking for intelligent and cost effective solutions to address such issues.
Talent Acquisition: How you do it?
Most of the SMEs scouting for good talent in the market either get to the right talent through personal connects or referrals or either through designated talent scouting companies. Opting for talent acquisition agencies increases the cost of hiring for SMEs. Also, the interview process which happens, once a candidate is referred by the talent scouting company, is time consuming. The investment of time and money in the process vis-a-vis benefits is surely a challenge. This can be addressed by technology and SMEs are looking for it.
Lets reduce your interview handling costs: right away!
Generally post the first level of screening you call candidates to your office and interview them, while investing time and resources. This adds to the cost of talent acquisition for your business.
Consider this: the prospective candidate you need to interview is available for you through video telecast LIVE and you are as much visible to him, while you both speak with each other. You both might be sitting across seven seas, in any part of the world, you will still be able to manage this interview while keeping your schedule.
Hold your next interview with Skype
All you need to do to achieve the above objective is to download Skype, supported with a broadband internet connection, a projector is optional and you are up and running. Using the video calling feature of Skype (which is free) you can hold a video interview of a prospective candidate who must also have access to Skype.
How to setup Skype for a Video Interview?
If you do not have Skype already installed on your system, you can download it for free here. Once you have the setup done. You now need to share your Skype id with your prospective candidate and add him/ her online.
Talent Acquisition: How you do it?
Most of the SMEs scouting for good talent in the market either get to the right talent through personal connects or referrals or either through designated talent scouting companies. Opting for talent acquisition agencies increases the cost of hiring for SMEs. Also, the interview process which happens, once a candidate is referred by the talent scouting company, is time consuming. The investment of time and money in the process vis-a-vis benefits is surely a challenge. This can be addressed by technology and SMEs are looking for it.
Lets reduce your interview handling costs: right away!
Generally post the first level of screening you call candidates to your office and interview them, while investing time and resources. This adds to the cost of talent acquisition for your business.
Consider this: the prospective candidate you need to interview is available for you through video telecast LIVE and you are as much visible to him, while you both speak with each other. You both might be sitting across seven seas, in any part of the world, you will still be able to manage this interview while keeping your schedule.
Hold your next interview with Skype
All you need to do to achieve the above objective is to download Skype, supported with a broadband internet connection, a projector is optional and you are up and running. Using the video calling feature of Skype (which is free) you can hold a video interview of a prospective candidate who must also have access to Skype.
How to setup Skype for a Video Interview?
If you do not have Skype already installed on your system, you can download it for free here. Once you have the setup done. You now need to share your Skype id with your prospective candidate and add him/ her online.
Once you have the candidate added to your Skype id, double click on the name as it appears on your Skype list and the following screen will appear:
Once you have the caller window open on your screen, click on the "video call" option, as marked in the screen capture above. Once you begin the video call, a 'video call window' will appear which will send a request to the other caller to initiate a video chat.
You are now logged into the video call mode, where in you can now interview you prospective candidate just like you would if the candidate would have been sitting in front you in reality. The interview can also be recorded using supporting Skype recording tools and can later be shared across other respective departments.
But I have multiple departments taking a call on hiring!
A single Skype video call can be shared across with multiple stakeholders and hence multiple departments can login while making it a shared call. This way the candidate can be interviewed by the various stakeholder departments at the same time, while being on a single video call.
There are many such online platforms available, which are benefiting the Small and Medium Enterprise segment. To know more, get in touch with the experts at IndiaMART Knowledge Services. Do drop in a comment to this post to let us know what else would you want us to share about!
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