How to handle a job interview by video | LinkedIn

How to handle a job interview by video | LinkedIn

October 03, 2014 Q: Help! I've been called to a first-round interview – but it's a video interview. I have to sit in front of my webcam, press the button, and start answering questions that will be served up as written text on my screen. I'd really like to work for this company, but I can't get my head around this format at all. I'm not accustomed to talking to a screen like that, unless there's somebody talking back to me. Have you any tips? (LK, email). A: I believe this is going to become an even more common approach in the years ahead. For companies, video interviewing – or early-stage screening as some call it – offers all sorts of advantages, namely: It allows them to interview a huge number of applicants – just formulate the questions, create the video link, and send out to all applicants. The fact that they can do this without having to commit their own people to a few days of interviewing is a real bonus – in other words, it saves cost; At early-screening stage,

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