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TAKING
advantage of the growing demand for online recruitment,
a private firm has introduced the video resumé, where an
employer-applicant match can take place in paperless
mode, quicker than the conventional job interview.
The idea
is to lessen paperwork for jobseekers by uploading their
video where they are given 30 seconds to introduce
themselves to employers anywhere in the world. The video
resumé, or “vidres,” also allows applicants to highlight
their personalities, skills and talents that the regular
curriculum vitae could not prove.
“They
need no longer go on time-consuming trips and [suffer]
the long queues that are the norm in the traditional
job-hunting process. All they have to do is to upload
their video resumé,” said Florante Cruz, Vidres chief
executive officer during the company’s press launch
Monday.
He added
that the popularity of job-search engines is a testimony
that the technology is “ripe” for video résumé since it
will also hasten the recruitment process for both local
and foreign employers.
“Vidres
will serve to expedite hiring procedures as it bypasses
the lengthy preliminary screening process,” said Cruz,
adding that this new innovation could help address the
country’s unemployment rate. “On the macro level, we
foresee the economy benefiting from the revolutionary
effect of this development. It could lead to what
economists term as a faster velocity of labor since it
cuts down the turnaround time in moving between jobs,”
he noted. Applicants who wish to use Vidres technology
would have to register at www.vidres.net. The posting of
one’s résumé is free but an application with a video is
charged P100 and is renewable after three months, said
Rossana Llenado, managing partner.
Logging
on to Vidres web site is still free as of now, she said.
Applicants can upload their video in three ways: by
using their own computer with a Webcam, through partner
Internet cafés, and by going to Vidres-stationed booths
in job fairs and shopping malls.
Before
uploading one’s video, Vidres gives tips on grooming and
script that are available in its web site. A video
resumé is screened first so that foul words and obscene
acts will not be acknowledged by the system, added
Llenado.
Employers can easily search for applicants and their
video résumé also through the Vidres web site.
“The
simplicity and the economy of the Vidres system are its
principal virtues. Its entry into the market could well
signal a host of possibilities for improving the ways of
doing business that start with finding the right man or
woman for the job and finding the right job for every
man or woman,” said Cruz. |
