The Globe & Mail: When your face precedes the face-to-face
Active Interview and one of our customer, OLPC, are featured in today’s edition of The Globe and Mail.
Read the full article here: The video job interview: When your face precedes the face-to-face.
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The virtual interview was the only way Bryan Stuart could keep his non-profit organization’s budget in check when he hired 35 people for One Laptop Per Child’s internship program. It also was much easier to get candidates to submit recorded videos, which he could review at his home office in Wilmington, Ind. whenever he had spare time.
With plans to deploy interns around the world to co-ordinate laptop distribution programs, language skills were critical. While many cited proficiency in multiple languages on their resumes, Mr. Stuart knew there was one way to test those claims: one of the interview questions required applicants to answer in a second language.
That question startled applicant Federico Volio, a student in Atlanta, Ga. who was visiting his family in Costa Rica at the time, but it also impressed him.
“It really just gives you a good impression of how much they care about who you are,” he says.
He rattled off an answer in Spanish with ease which, in part, won him the internship.
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