How would you feel about a Job Interview by Skype? There was an interesting article today on the BBC about this.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21334710
Many recruiters we work with have successfully been using phone interviews as part of the applicant screening process for a long time. Skype or video calling seems like a logical step on from that and I’m sure it is already pretty common place.
We’d still advocate that, wherever possible, a face to face interview in the same location should form part of the selection process. The measure of a candidate’s handshake, seeing the “whites of their eyes”, a chat whilst taking a tour of the premises, meeting others in the business, and work based assessments are all too useful to rely solely on a video interview in our opinion. We can’t see skype replacing the face to face interview for a good long while yet.
But when travel time and costs might make that difficult, skype is certainly a great option to decide whether or not to progress further with an application.
What do you think – do you use video interviewing?