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- HR Manager asks: "Candidates still don’t create good text-based resumes. If candidates can’t master that, how are they going to master video?"
- SavvyPaper's Response: Why would a recruiter or an employer wish to waste time with candidates that can't or don't take the time to create a flawless text resume. For about $100, a professional will write a flawless text resume for them, which does the recruiter or employer absolutely no good. They end up wasting valuable time on under qualified candidates. The video resume eliminates the ability to circumvent the process, thus you end up with higher qualified candidates (i.e. you save time and get better candidates). Think of it as raising the bar.
- HR Manager asks: ATS systems still can’t index text-based resumes well enough for most recruiters. Video resume black hole seems like an eventuality.
- SavvyPaper's Response: Video resumes have html titles, keywords, meta words, etc., so the same sifting capabilities are there and will be used. In fact, our service seamlessly ties the two together. Both the text and video can be indexed and searched thus amplifying the benefit of video resumes. If one sets it up properly, it works better than a simple text search. SavvyPaper's video resumes already have all of these features included in them.
- HR Manager asks: A typical text resume get reviewed in less than 30 seconds. No video resume is ever going to get to the point in less than 30 seconds. Now imagine if you had to cut your recruiting team’s efficiency by 100%, 200%, 1000% so they could review video resumes. Where is the ROI?
- SavvyPaper's Response: The presumptions above are completely incorrect. Also, even if reviewing video resumes "adds" additional time, you more than make up for this time on the back end. I, as a hiring manager, can review the video resume BEFORE interviewing the candidate - a kind of mini-interview. If I select that candidate, there is a very high percentage chance that the candidate is a good match. This is not true of text resumes. With a text resume, it is easy to get a mixture of qualified and unqualified candidates, which "costs" considerable time to further weed via phone interviews, face to face interviews, etc. If a video resume is used, I save all of that time, because the face to face interview becomes more of a formality vs a vetting process.
- HR Manager asks: Video resumes take too much time to create. Candidates just don't have the time.
- SavvyPaper's Response: This assumes it is hard to create a video resume, which may have been true 3-5 years ago. With the proliferation of inexpensive web cams, video recorders, just about everyone has a video resume sitting (literally) at his fingertips. At SavvyPaper, we can create your professional enhanced video resume for approximately the same cost as a text resume. This is unheard of. The market just needed the means to create high quality videos and the cost to come down. Now that both things have happened, it is just a matter of time until they are as prolific as the standard text resume. Everyday more and more video resumes are appearing.
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