The video-CV offers the opportunity to show the candidate skills in 2 minutes, opening new communicative channels that were never been used before in recruitment.
That is, if the video is well done, a new opportunity for the candidates that are looking for a job. In the video-CV, the candidates should expose his/her personal-professional developments, their strengths, their abilities and their acquired skills. Also, during the production, they could incorporate creative elements, like for example, samples of their work and projects.
We talked, therefore, of an innovative and original tool to present a self-proposal to the companies or to enter into a recruitment, like for example in Etalentum, where the candidates can hangout his/her videos in the website that are automatically incorporated in the curriculum. It’s used to increase the possibilities to find a job, believing that the candidate has the attributes which the businesses require today as: the initiative, the flexibility, creativity, competencees and social skills for instance.
Now, with the newest innovation, the digital video-CV is easier to promote as an entrepreneur. So, we could say that it has become a marketing and publicity tool to promote yourself.
Making a video-CV, means having a huge technical and personal preparation, which involves, in first place, count with a number of physical conditions of recording (especially, in terms of light, image and sound) and in second place, know themselves well (How they are, how are their aspirations, how they can contribute, how they can reformulate their lacks to stand out their abilities…).
So that, the candidate will have to send a coherent and an assertive message, like a result of a recruitment process to your interests, skills and talents applied to a specific job, their experience and their future expectations…
The Department of Human Resources of a company takes into account the video-CV?
Making a video-CV expands the job possibilities of the candidates, moving with a digital device that works in Internet the 24 hours of the day and every day of the year, to a company or their potential customers.
Nowadays
Until now, the companies have used the video-CV only for recruitment, making it more effective, quickly and humane. But today, it’s possible to use it as a corporative presentation or a job offer.
Advices to make a video-CV
Reflection before to start
The video-CV allows presenting aspects that with a written format are not possible. So, before you start, you can think about what you want to explain and think that a bad exposition can harm you. We suggest making a presentation that doesn’t last more than 90 seconds (at the video can last 2 minutes). It’s also important that you show sincerity, naturalness and confidence and try to reformulate those aspects that could go against us.
Focus your message to your addressee
Focus your message to a particular group can be better understood by those who are a part of your goal. However, take into account that a simple message will reach a wider audience.
It is not always necessary
It is not necessary to make a video-CV, but some people can earn points showing his image and his way of expressing themselves. However, others, they can harm themselves.
Summarise
If you know to whom you’re going to address the video-CV, you could personlize it.. Take into account that there isn’t a way to put a lot of information of your CV or make a list of your previous jobs. You also can always provide access to give more detailed information via link to your website where they can keep discovering more about you.
Consider these three questions:
Who are you?
What are you doing?
How do you work?
What is essential?
Shorten the information at the most important, at 3 o 4 outstanding ideas that you want to persist after the viewing.
The initial greeting
It’s the first impression they get about you. So we must demonstrate a friendly and natural expression to break the ice, but we can’t do references in time because we don’t know when they would see us.
The experience
It’s the section that more time we should spend. When we have to recounting our experience, we usually follow a chronological order to the present, but you can play with that order to stand out the work experiences or to group some that are similar and it is important to express what we have learned in every experience.
Summary
Summarizing what we present, we reaffirm ourselves to the person who is looking at us that we are the right candidate. Here we must take advantage and show the aspects we don’t outlined previously. An appreciation for the interest shown in our candidate, it would be the best conclusion.
The recording place
It should be as quiet as possible and adequate to not cause acoustic echo. Take care of lighting (better if it is natural) and try to get it from all sides to avoid shadows. Also, be careful that no glare and reflections spoil us the result. It is preferable to choose a neutral background of soft colours and use a closed shot (without the foreground) to avoid distractions.
Try to wear comfortable clothes, look naturally to the camera and wait a few seconds looking at the camera before starting to speak. Once finished, you also have to leave a few seconds to cut the recording. It is also interesting not to have a single recording plane and try to insert images about your jobs or working places.
Repetitions
You can repeat the recording as many times as necessary until you are convinced of the result. If you have to insist, it’s convenient to rest.
Careful editing
In video editing, it is needed clean cuts at the beginning and at the end. And if it’s possible, it should also retouch the sound and the image.
“Move” the video resume
There are many specialized websites to make your self-nomination in the employer business if you are reporting on the appropriate channel.
Some of these examples are: www.videocvon.com, www.touristtalent.es (oriented tourism) or www.videoseleccion.es (facilitates digital tools to create automatic routes in a selection process).
Keep your attention
Your viewers won’t necessarily make concentrated in your video-CV. You’re fighting a tide of other candidates available for the same workplace.
The total duration is relative: you can explain it in thirty seconds or in a minute. Don’t pursue a specific time but avoid too long. If viewing the result will not stay satisfied by rhythm, repeated it changing. You can retake and go making adjustments of what you had recorded to be closer to what you’re looking for.
Be original
Basically, the question is whether your video enriches who sees it in some way: with information, with an interesting idea or a smile.
Work with these questions:
What is the most likely way to put your ideas into video?
What does anyone expect that will happen?
You can play with surprise and depending on the information you raise of your goals, you’ll find endless ways to present your ideas. You can also find examples of those videos you like to have an idea and from there. Unleash your imagination.
Make it easy for the user
It is up to the user to make the decision to visit your page or send an email, but remember: I make it easy. You can include a title at the end or along the video and include relevant links in the description … and remind the viewer that has the ability to access to you (and your service) if he/she is interested.
All people will include their email and their web on their video. But to be more original, you can use YouTube annotations that allow playing connected the video directly linking to other videos (like an interactive game).
Keep updated
As is done with CV, video-CV also must be renewed periodically.
Do you accomplish your planned objective?