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SEARCH ENGINES NOW READ FLASH VIDEO

2008-07-05T10:50:00.000-07:00

Until recently, many people and companies shied away from flash due to the fact that the search engines could not read and index it the way they do with html, even though it is a powerful video format .

However, that is all about to change. Google, Yahoo, and Adobe have announced that their search engines and algorithms will read through and sort flash just like html. This open up an entire new avenue of video marketing and advertising. Keywords, email addresses, web links, all of which can be embedded in flash video will now be searched and indexed just like generic html.

(Click here for the full article). Read what CNET has to say about it.

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2008-07-04T08:23:00.001-07:00

SavvyPaper adds Crystal Graphics as affiliate

2008-06-29T16:11:00.000-07:00

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Video Advertising

2008-06-23T19:51:00.001-07:00

Video is an excellent way to grab attention, show case your product or viscerally describe your service. Time Warner Cable is supporting free video photo shows. Anyone can create and upload a video photo show for free (currently only non-commercial shows are approved and accepted). However, the writing is on the wall. We at SavvyPaper predict that soon they will open this service up to include product and service advertisements. Imagine you yourself will be able to create your own commercials for the Time Warner Cable viewing public without having to shell out thousands of dollars. What's even better is that since the content is VOD (Video On Demand), your clients are pulling the information versus you pushing it upon people; most of whom are not potential clients. You get not only an inexpensive powerful medium to reach customers, but the customers that you do reach are those that are interested in your products.

click here to see a sample of how SavvyPaper can help you create these inexpensive yet powerful advertisements!

Take Your Video Resume with You to Job Fairs

2008-06-12T08:39:00.000-07:00

Job fairs are an excellent avenue to network and of course find a job. Nex time though, instead of just carrying a paper resume, try taking your video resume with you. How you ask? (hint: watch the video) You will leave a much more memorable impression with the many potential employers that you network with and interview with.

See how this is already being used and working in Hawii.

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Video Ideal for Marketing Products and Services

2008-06-05T17:28:00.000-07:00

With ubiquitous high speed internet, video advertising is becoming more and more commonplace to attract customers, inform clients of existing products, educate with regards to products and services and more.

SavvyPaper has dedicated a team of professionals to provide video marketing services for small and medium sized companies. The dynamic interface allows customers to easily meneuver anywhere within the product video brochure. Additionally, we embed your website and email into the video so that customers can easily contact you with a simple click of the mouse.

Video Marketing of Products and Services

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A Professional Presentation Reinforces Your Video Resume

2008-05-31T09:28:00.000-07:00

At SavvyPaper we custom design a professional presentation to accompany your video resume. This is a free service included in any of our professional video resume packages. The presentation is custom designed to emphasize your spoken message as you are speaking on your video resume. We have more than 2000 custom designs to choose from to cover nearly every career and business facets. You simply choose your favorite design and SavvyPaper does the rest for you. Here are just a few examples.

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For Those That are Camera Shy, an Audio Resume may be the Answer

2008-05-30T19:48:00.000-07:00

Some people are intimidated by the camera or perhaps just a little shy, but that doesn't mean you are any less qualified. Often those individuals are the diamonds in the ruff, but employers will never know it unless we get you in front of them somehow. SavvyPaper, again to the rescue, has created an Audio Resume to assist the quieter types. Submit an audio file and your text resume to SavvyPaper and we will take care of the rest. We will create a professional audio resume that is designed to dust of the diamond, get you noticed and remembered.

If you are new to computers and/or recording audio; no worries; we've tried to anticipate your every need. Here is a "How To Record your Audio Tutorial".

HOW TO RECORD YOUR AUDIO - TUTORIAL

Click the Picture Below to see an excellent audio resume.

AUDIO RESUME

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First Step and Door Opener

2008-05-29T09:23:00.000-07:00

A video resume can be a door opener with employers you are targeting, and, if you are not getting the response you expect, it can be an alternative method for moving forward a stalled interview process.

In preparing the video resume, it is important to have an introduction that is appropriate for your background and the position you are looking to secure. A closing for the recording is just as important.

Your introduction should be short and sweet, explaining who you are and the purpose of the video. Your closing should provide a very specific next step for the employer to follow in making direct contact with you. And always include your written resume with the recording.
Video resumes can’t be very long because the employers spend, statistically, 30 to 60 seconds screening applicants. Reduce your speech to four sections:

Introduction
Major accomplishments
Education
Closing

The written resume should provide the rest of the details and allow the employers to explore it at their pace.

The video resume also serves as a way to bring you closer to a company that is too far to meet with you personally in a first round of selection. It can accomplish this first steps and help the process move forward toward the eventual face-to-face meeting.

A video resume is not a replacement for the face-to-face meeting. More often than not, you will still have to perform live, in person, for the company. But it can help you in getting to the in-person interview when other techniques have failed.

Video Marketing Fast Becoming Standard Operating Procedure

2008-05-28T15:58:00.000-07:00

Video marketing is becoming more and more prevalent. Companies with large budgets (typically the larger companies) used to be the only companies able to afford the expensive TV and radio commercials to reach their desired vast audiences. However, the Internet's paradigm is perfectly positioned to not only compete with TV and radio, but to do so cheaper and more effectively. Each day, more and more people are getting their news from the Internet, buying their products Online, even watching TV and listening to music Online. It was just a matter of time before Internet video marketing appeared on the scene. Video marketing is now providing explosive opportunities for the small and medium sized companies to more easily compete against the large established corporations and each other. With more people purchasing their services and products over the Internet it is important that the customer be able to virtually experience the product. The more satisfying experience the customer has with the product or service, the more inclinded he is to buy it. The trend to use Internet videos to market products and services will only continue to grow. SavvyPaper is perfectly positioned to provide these high quality video marketing services cost effectively.

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Features of a SavvyPaper Video Resume

2008-05-26T12:47:00.000-07:00

There are several enhanced features that SavvyPaper includes in a video resume production, which are specifically designed to appeal to the user and ultimately get you noticed and remembered. Our concept centers around the fact that different people learn and remember differently. Some are visual, some are auditory, some are tactile (touch). Our video resumes combine elements of all 3! This new powerful approach is optimally designed to appeal to the vast audience of recruiters and employers. A video is worth a thousand words, so let us just show you.

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Video - The video of the candidate is on the left hand side
Video - There is a 2nd video presentation on the right hand side. This is a custom presentation reinforcing your spoken message. It has eye catching text, transitions, graphics, and more
Audio - Your spoken message
Tactile - Our custom designed dynamic control interface allows the user to easily and instantaneously search through the video resume, saving the recruiters and employers valuable time

Additional Benefits of Using a SavvyPaper Video Resume

Embedded Email - Potential employers can contact you immediately by simply clicking the link that we embed in your video resume
Embedded web site - More and more social networking sites are appearing daily on the Internet (Linkedin, Myspace, Facebook, etc.). SavvyPaper utilizes the full power of the Internet to provide our clients the full advantage of emerging technology
Embedded Text Resume - By adding a link to your text resume, any potential employer can immediately access your detailed text resume to learn more about you.

In a nutshell, SavvyPaper has integrated everything into a one stop one shop database that utilizes the enormous power of the Internet to market you to recruiters and potential employers. Databases can search both the video and text resume saving HR valuable time while simultaneously providing higher quality content

Features & Benefits of our Video Resumes

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Video Resumes Demonstrate 6 of top 10 Wall Street Journal's Corporate Recruiters Survey

2008-05-24T14:22:00.000-07:00

THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A MORE IMPORTANT TIME to posses exceptional presentation skills. We've moved from an economy where businesses faced local, regional and national competition to an economy where businesses face stiff competition at every level from around the globe.1
Every year The Wall Street Journal (WSJ) publishes its Corporate Recruiters Survey. The survey ranks business schools based on the input it receives from corporate recruiters, the people who interview and hire MBA students. One part of the survey includes the attributes recruiters list as "very important" for MBA job candidates. The hiring attribute consistently found at the top of the list is COMMUNICATION/INTERPERSONAL skills.1
Recruiters rated the business schools and their M.B.A. students on 21 attributes. Here is a list of the 10 highest attributes from the most recent Wall Street Journal Corporate Recruiters Survey and the percentages of recruiters who listed these attributes as "very important":1

89.0% Communication/Interpersonal skills
86.9% Ability to work well within a team
86.2% Personal ethics and integrity
84.3% Analytical and problem-solving skills
82.9% Work Ethic
74.5% Fit the corporate culture
74.0% Success with past hires
72.5% Leadership potential
67.1% Strategic thinking
64.9% Likelihood of recruiting "stars"

What we find so interesting is that none of the top 10 can be effectively conveyed using a standard text resume. However, 6 of the top 10 can be demonstrated very effectively with a video resume. This data suggests that video resumes are perfectly suited to provide candidates the best opportunity to demonstrate the top most desired attributes that companies and recruiters are looking for.

1 An excerpt from: The Exceptional Presenter by Timothy J. Koegel

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Why Video Resumes ARE a Great Idea - Part 2

2008-05-24T13:45:00.000-07:00

Some recruiters are concerned about video resumes and have been asking questions and voicing their concerns. I address each one of them below.

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Recruiter asks: What you don't see is how many times takes it takes to get it perfect. Or maybe that they had it professionally produced and edited.
SavvyPaper's Response: First, how is that any different from someone having his/her text resume professionally written? Second, I as a hiring manager would much rather interview candidates that go the extra mile to "impress" me. I have often interviewed several candidates where clearly one candidate had the best qualifications, but was not passionate about the position or about the field, etc. Another candidate was less qualified from an experience perspective, but it was obvious that the 2nd candidate was excited and passionate about the position. In those cases, I typically hire the more passionate, excited candidate. I have tracked their progress over time and found that they generally perform much better for the company and they themselves are happier with their jobs. So, yes, I want to see their video resumes. Video resumes demonstrate self confidence and passion and that they are willing and eager to communicate.

Recruiter asks: How are you going to keep video resume submissions off of YouTube? Obviously with this format, there are going to be videos that people will post onto YouTube. Is your company going to be responsible for breaking promises to keep candidates information confidential?
SavvyPaper's Response: Seriously, scare tactics - really? SavvyPaper takes privacy and confidential information very seriously. We have specifically built a password safeguard into our professionally enhanced video resume services. This allows the client to safeguard his video resume so that only those he wishes to view his video resume will have access to it. This provides the client with complete control over who has access to his/her video resume.

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Why Video Resumes ARE a Great Idea - Part 1

2008-05-17T16:52:00.000-07:00

Some Human Resource Managers are concerned about video resumes. I address each comment below:

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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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FOX on Recording a Video Resume

2008-05-14T09:23:00.000-07:00

HireMeKnow.com's CEO Phillip Thune says:

"Video Resumes, or as we referred to them, VINTROs™, should be really short and show your personality,"

"Typically, the video resume covers the first question of the actual interview -- tell me a bit about yourself and why I should hire you..."

"One of the great things about video resumes is that you are in total control; you can shoot the video 20 times if you want. The interviewer will then have a very favorable impression of that job candidate before they even meet them, and will likely keep that impression no matter how jittery the job candidate becomes in the interview itself..."

Why Video Resumes Aren’t Such a Great Idea

2008-05-14T06:24:00.000-07:00

That is, according to Stephen Doubner in his Freakonomics post from almost a year ago.

Here are Stephen's point on why VR haven't catched on yet:

1. The cost of making a video resume falls on the applicant, not the employer; but it’s the employer who reaps most of the reward in terms of not wasting time interviewing unlikely candidates. The applicant inherently has more time to waste than the employer.

Correct ... why haven't applicants then figure this out yet?

2. Applicants may want the chance to impress an employer in person, and fear that they’ll be poorly represented in a video.

Correct again, so to make sure applicants aren't poorly represented VR need to be professionally done and it doesn't cost any more than having a paper resume professionally done!

3. Maybe employers, in their embrace of status quo-ism, think that video resumes are just too weird, or modern, or revealing; or perhaps they’re worried about being charged with discrimination if they respond disproportionately in favor or against a certain type of applicant.

These issues arise every time a new technology or cutting edge process hits the market. Eventually people get comfortable with it and pass these concerns. We are somewhat in the middle of that process right now and the more VR out there, the easier it will be for the recruiters to adopt the practice. And let's not kid ourselves ... we live in a technologically driven world so we will get there sooner or later, so why not be a pioneer on the subject?

Life After the IT Department

2008-05-13T14:44:00.000-07:00

Thinking about changing careers? This article from eWeek is a fantastic read if you are.

Janice Weinberg's book: A compass to New and Rewarding Fields that Value Computer Knowledge is also an excellent source of insight on the subject.

The main idea behind the advice: identify transferable skills. In other words, what is it you did well and where else can you apply those skills successfully?

Consider introducing the idea through a Video Resume where you can show you are confident about the career change you are undertaking.

Be Yourself!

2008-05-12T19:35:00.000-07:00

I was also a recruiter and I do think video resumes are very useful when searching for a great job. I have found that many times a great potential hire can get lost in the shuffle of hundreds of paper resumes. The video resume allows the recruiter/employer to see the real you and not just who you are on paper.

As long as you "be yourself" in your video, many people will notice you and want to meet you in person where as they may not have noticed all of your great assets on your paper resume because they do look at so many.

The video resume allows you to show how professional you are, how educated and articulate you are, and it highlights your achievements.

Remember....."be yourself" or employers will see right through you!!

Adriana Rapolla

2008-05-11T09:55:00.000-07:00

Savvy Paper's Chief Learning Officer

I have 15 years of experience, the last 5 on Organizational Change Management & Training. I worked my way to OCM from my days of SAP Consultant when I did development, configuration and then Training.

Geographically, my experience covers almost every country in North and Latin America as well as some of Europe; and all almost exclusively on the consulting services side, including IT recruiting.

I have worked in small companies, in big (the big consulting four!) companies and I had my own practice for a few years. The same can be said for the clients I've serve at different times, from family shops to fortune 100. Such large range in company sizes has given me a deep inside knowledge of the human factor at all levels; and this knowledge has been instrumental in designing and implementing a Video Resume enhancement strategy that will help you get the job you deserve!

Who are we?

2008-05-11T08:44:00.000-07:00

SavvyPaper was formed in 2008 by a small group of individuals who wanted to provide a professional edge to the explosion of video resumes appearing on the internet. We loved the fresh, innovative approach of the video resume, but realized the basic video resume was just the beginning.

In order to make the utmost positive impression on recruiters and employers, SavvyPaper combines your video resume with key visual indicators broadening the appeal and making the most memorable impression.

Do Video Resumes Work?

2008-05-10T13:33:00.000-07:00

I ran across this article and my immediate thought was the author has probably watched Video Resumes from YouTube or a similar site and yes, those are too long, with no structure and poorly made since most people that own a computer camera, a phone camera or even a video camera are not professionals in making and/or editing video.

But Video Resumes can be enhanced professionally after the initial, messy recording.

That's what we do! and our work has gotten great reviews by recruiters and job hunters alike.

And yes, I have been a recruiter myself so I know all about having to find the perfect candidate for the job.

I have emailed Louise to get an update on her opinion after she has looks at our examples. Let's hope she writes back. I'll keep you posted.

We are up!

2008-05-01T18:42:00.000-07:00

After a long market research, dealing with hosting and developing companies and a couple of very long months of hard work, we are finally up!

Please visit our newly and freshly started Video Resume business.

Savvy Paper - Video Resumes -

SEARCH ENGINES NOW READ FLASH VIDEO

SavvyPaper's Newsletter

SavvyPaper adds Crystal Graphics as affiliate

Video Advertising

Take Your Video Resume with You to Job Fairs

Top Job Boards Have Added Video Resumes

Video Ideal for Marketing Products and Services

A Professional Presentation Reinforces Your Video Resume

For Those That are Camera Shy, an Audio Resume may be the Answer

First Step and Door Opener

Video Marketing Fast Becoming Standard Operating Procedure

Features of a SavvyPaper Video Resume

Video Resumes Demonstrate 6 of top 10 Wall Street Journal's Corporate Recruiters Survey

Why Video Resumes ARE a Great Idea - Part 2

Why Video Resumes ARE a Great Idea - Part 1

FOX on Recording a Video Resume

Why Video Resumes Aren’t Such a Great Idea

Life After the IT Department

Be Yourself!

Adriana Rapolla

Who are we?

Do Video Resumes Work?

We are up!