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Ziggeo API is Coming

We are letting you in on a little secret. We’re gearing up to release an awesome API that will allow for the simplest, most secure and beautiful video recording and playback system out there. With this API, you’ll be able to easily incorporate a range of video-based services, including video screening, video profiles, video messaging, […]

Job Candidates from Elite Ivy Schools

Should you care if your job candidate went to Harvard? A little, if you are hiring for some fields — dare I say “soft fields”? — such as management consulting. The top firms there are sometimes accused of “outsourcing” their hiring decisions to prestigious university admissions offices. Such hiring decisions are arguably safe because employers […]

Ziggeo Talk: The ABC of Start-Up Recruiting

For those of you who weren’t able to attend the first Ziggeo Talk on how to recruit for startups I am pleased to announce the release of this talk on video. The talk, entitled “The ABC of Start-Up Recruiting” features Albert Wenger of Union Square Ventures, investors in Twitter, Tumblr, Foursquare, and Shapeways. Here’s a description of the talk: […]

Ziggeo’s Data Day: Longer Time Spent on Recording Process Yields Best Results

According to Ziggeo’s data (see chart at end of this post), candidates who spend the longest time on their recorded interviews – measured from the moment they start their applications by providing their names and email addresses until the moment they submit their final recordings to employers – tend receive the highest ratings. Our data […]

Ziggeo Launches the Easiest Mobile Interview Ever

No other video interviewing company can compete with Ziggeo when it comes to making mobile interviewing super-easy. What’s the Ziggeo difference? Simple. Candidates don’t have to download cumbersome mobile apps the way they need to with Ziggeo’s competitors; downloading apps takes time and frustrates the ease of applying to a position. With Ziggeo, candidates simply […]

Give Candidates a Break in Recorded Video Interviews

Video interviews can be intimidating, so if you are an employer reviewing pre-recorded videos, consider giving candidates a break. After all, applicants may not know some of the basics of video interviewing, such as what colors appear best on camera or how to light the room, but on the assumption that you’re hiring a person […]

Data Day: Candidates Who Write More Messages to Interviewers Than They Receive Fare Worse

According to Ziggeo’s Data Chart (posted at the end of this text), the candidate who writes more messages to the interviewer than he or she receives from the interviewer tends to get lower ratings. In other words, candidates should make sure that the number of messages they write to the interviewer is on par with […]

Testing Language Skills with Recorded Video Interviews

“Aimez-vous Ziggeo?” This might be a question posed by a video interviewer trying to test an applicant’s proficiency in French. Obviously, video pre-screening offers huge advantages for employers wishing to assess, first-hand, an applicant’s competency in a foreign tongue. Candidates can write “conversational” or “semi-fluent” or “fluent” on a resume, but what does it really […]

Ziggeo, Resumes, On-Line Profiles, Recorded video interviews, screening candidates

The traditional resume isn’t dead. It is just dressing differently. Candidates applying for jobs in hi-tech or highly creative fields are increasingly foregoing the emailed resume. Instead of emailing the good old paper resume, candidates are submitting digital portfolios as well as links to personal blogs, LinkedIn, Twitter, and other social networks. The idea is […]

Practicing for a Pre-recorded Interview

Typically in a pre-recorded video interview, a candidate can practice as many times as he or she wishes before submitting the final interview to the interviewer. If you are a candidate, how, exactly, should you practice? Here are some tips: Ask yourself if, based on your practice videos, you would hire you. If not, why […]