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New technologies have made the life simpler and easier to communicate anyone in any geographical location. These real time technologies have great impact on the business. It helps the employer to widen the search and connect to the candidate from any part with less effort. Interviewer can virtually meet and communicate to the candidate online. It reduces the travel cost and time.

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Few of the latest methods of remote Interviewing:

1. Internet Telephony – Services like Skype, Ekiga offer a wide range of facilities to carry our effective conversations over internet. Read more here.

2. Video Conference – Cisco, Tandberg Video Conferencing solutions let you conduct face-to-face discussions between distributed personnel. Read more here.

3. Web Conference – WebEx, DimDim etc services can provide state of the art Web conferencing facilities that will enable you to conduct online meetings, conference and much much more. They even let you use remote desktop sharing. Read more here.

4. Instant Messaging – GTalk, Yahoo Messenger etc let you have direct Textual conversations over internet. Now, they even have advanced Voice over IP, Video over IP features that get you seamless access to remote resources.

 

Benefits

 

Minimal time and less candidate drop outs

Telephonic interviews are conducted for initial screening of candidates. If the candidate is through in these rounds, he needs to meet couple of other panels. It may not be the final interview since there might be several other interviews. In such case all the interviewers and the candidate need to be available on a particular day. It is difficult to happen on the same day and candidate needs to visit several times. Here drop outs are more , time consuming and expensive if the candidate belongs to different geographical location. Real-time technologies will solve this problem as candidate can get connected from anywhere and interviewer can get the feel about the candidate.

Reduces cost-per-hire

As there are lots of internet telephony applications like Skype available, the cost per interview is reduced and hence can avoid unnecessary waste of hiring budget.

Real Feel

Both interviewer and the candidate get the virtual presence of each thought the interview though different locations. Video/Web Conferencing has evolved and can get you a near real face to face interview results.

 

Disadvantages

 

Candidate doesn’t get to study the company, environment and culture. He cannot experience the workplace and people. Interviewer can not to understand the candidate’s feel about the company and his reactions. One may not be able to judge the subtle candidate characteristics.

Remote interviews are mostly useful for senior candidates. It is very much essential to know if the remote interview necessary for the candidate. The initial interviews can be conducted online but make it a point to meet the candidate for the final face to face to get the real feel about the candidate and also to get a company experience for the candidate. The effective combination of both will lead to a successful hiring.

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