Interview Studio
People are talking about InterviewStudio!
Who
is the site published by? InterviewStudio or www.InterviewStudio.com
is the product of Recruitment, Inc. a company incorporated in Delaware, with
operational headquarters in Bellevue, WA. When
was the site launched? InterviewStudio was
conceived as part of the solution set of Devon James Associates, Inc. in the
early 2000s in the course of assisting several Northwest based Employers in
their recruiting processes. We came to realize that there was a real
commercial need for a product like InterviewStudio, and decided to formally
roll it out as a separate company. Working part time on it since late 2005, we
have just publicly launched the site (www.InterviewStudio.com) in the Fall of 2007. How
many employees are there in the company? There are currently 5
employees (some part time) and several contractors and volunteers who are
assisting InterviewStudio in their first year of business. We are of course
engineering-heavy in this first phase, with part time expertise in marketing,
channel sales, finance, legal, and project management. We are fortunate to also
have a strong Advisory Board with representation from major job boards,
software companies, human resource organizations, and executive management. Do
you run any other recruitment sites? InterviewStudio is the
spin-off of a high end boutique retained recruitment firm, Devon James
Associates, Inc. which was founded in 1992 in the Seattle area. See more at www.devonjames.com. Since 1992, Devon
James offers their Onsite Recruiting War Room that has been used by Amazon,
Avenue A, Entellium, Airbiquity, Visio, Rhapsody Networks, Cranium, HTC and
others for high quality/high speed recruiting. A systemized outsourced solution
for scaling up companies or divisions, the model includes recruitment services
for immediate hires, training, ROI reporting, knowledge transfer
from the DJA team, and a leave-behind system with full audit trails and
pipelines for the future. InterviewStudio was
developed, in part, in response to the hiring angst that Devon James witnessed
on the part of hiring managers and internal recruiting teams while onsite in
their Recruiting War Rooms. They needed a more robust view of the candidates
upfront in order to screen properly, and save weeks of time and interview
travel budget. Introducing a one-shot view of a candidate to fast moving
interviewing teams has been met with rave reviews, since they can get a rich
multi-faceted view of a candidates corporate culture match, communication
style, personality and all-around fit before investing both time and money in a
round of onsite interviews. What
is the geographical coverage of the site? InterviewStudio has
global range, since it is a web hosted application (becoming more Web 2.0 by
the week!) that can be accessed by anyone with a computer and internet
connection. Employers in 19 countries have browsed our site in interest in a
very few months since we have launched the site. Since InterviewStudio is a
tool for Candidates looking to promote themselves, and a tool for Employers to
incorporate in their remote candidate screening process, and an elegant
platform for Recruiters to use in presenting their candidates to their clients,
it is truly a global application with only the localization boundaries of any
software product. How
many unique users does the site average per month? Since InterviewStudio
has just launched, we do not have a good feel for the traffic that will be
visiting our site, but have been very fortunate to have been found and reviewed
by several other sites in the last few months of 2007, including www.killerstartups.com,
http://www.centernetworks.com/startup-review-dec-1,
http://momb.socio-kybernetics.net/beta/interviewstudio,
http://recruitingfly.blogspot.com/2007/09/new-tool-alert-interviewstudio.html,
http://simplespark.com/catalog/interviewstudio,
http://www.hrmarketer.com/~blog/2007/09/interviewstudio-launches-online.html,
http://www.salesteamtools.com/2007/09/13/secure-your-next-sales-job-with-interviewstudio/,
http://bobstumpel.blogspot.com/2007/11/interviewstudio-job-board-with-video.html,
http://visionwiz.blogspot.com/2007/11/interviewstudio-combines-newest-online.html,
and many more. One of the reasons we are posting our information on sites such
as Onrec is to drive more traffic to our site and to obtain valuable feedback
from those viewers. We are beginning several web campaigns in this regard. Just
go to Google and type in: InterviewStudio! What
is the target market of the site? There are 3 distinct
and symbiotic target markets for InterviewStudio. 1. Employers seeking
to hire mid to upper level positions in any industry. InterviewStudio targets
employers who are spending money (and potentially wasting time) flying
candidates across a state or country and putting them up for the night to spend
several hours in interviews during the productive working day of the interview
team. With InterviewStudio, this first interview could take place before or
after hours by individual members of the interview team on their own schedule
without disrupting their day. When finalist candidates are then selected
using InterviewStudio, those candidates could be flown in for a formal round of
interviews. 2. Job seekers for
those positions who want to present a richer view of themselves to recruiters
and/or hiring managers. Any Job Seeker can go to the InterviewStudio website and
create a showcase or total view of themselves online by using our easy
Step-by-Step Show Building process, and then send that Showcase out to any Recruiter
or Employer they wish. They upload a resume, take an online assessment,
enter their references/endorsers, create an online profile of additional
information and document links, and even create their video interview (using a
webcam) all from the comfort of their home or office (we even provide the list
of interview questions they can choose from to answer in this video
interview). If they wish to use a professional videographer for the video
interview portion, they also have that option in a drop-down list of
videographers close to their location. 3. Recruiters who wish
to present a richer, more elegant presentation of their candidates to their
Employer Clients. Recruiters can sign up for an account in InterviewStudio and
ask their candidates to go in and build Showcases of themselves that the
recruiters can then present to their clients to view. Does
the site have an archive of resumes or candidate profiles? InterviewStudio will
eventually have archives of resumes and Candidate Showcases that Job Seekers
have chosen to include in the subscriber database. InterviewStudio showcases
built by Job Seekers are private and under the total control of the Job Seeker,
so they can opt into the database or opt out at their discretion. Job Seekers
will have annual accounts on InterviewStudio and can change/update their
Showcases at any time, and may have different versions to upload to our
subscriber database at different times if they wish to. Generally, Job Seekers
will choose which Employers or Recruiters to send their Showcases to, on a case
by case basis. Additionally, Employer
and Recruiter subscribers to InterviewStudio may offer the InterviewStudio
showcasing tool for free to their candidates, and would therefore be building
their own database of InterviewStudio Showcases of candidates. This gives
them their choice whether to maintain ownership of those job seeker showcases
or release them back to the job seeker. What
is the fee to search the site's database? Employers and
Recruiters who sign up for an account with InterviewStudio will pay a monthly
fee to use the entire system (From $1000 to $5000 per month). This will
include the capability to build a number of Job Folders for storing the URLs of
the candidates Showcases, a certain amount of Showcase Views per month,
the capability to message back and forth with candidates, forward the Showcases
within their interview teams, rank and comment on the candidates within the
system, and search by name or location for the candidates they have chosen to
view and store in their Job Folders. What
are the top 10 searches on the site? 1. Video
2.
Video Interviews
3. Video Resumes
4. Applicant Screening
5. Executive
Hiring
6. Assessments
7. Online Resumes
8. First Interview
9. Professional
Resume
10. Resume Describe
your site in your own words?
InterviewStudio
is a ground breaking new platform that brings speed, efficiency and
effectiveness to the hiring manager and job seeker alike. Simply stated,
InterviewStudio provides a website where Candidates come to build Showcases of
themselves, and Employers/Recruiters come to view them.
In the time it takes a
Hiring Manager to review a traditional resume, he or she can now, using
InterviewStudio, review the candidate's resume, evaluate the results of a
nationally recognized assessment test, watch a video taped interview, look for
public information on the candidate in Google and identify their social network
via LinkedIn, all from the same platform and in a matter a minutes. Based on
this broad base of information on the candidate, the hiring manager can quickly
determine if the individual may be the right 'fit' for their firm and warrant
the time and expense of an in person interview. For job seekers, the
InterviewStudio platform offers a candidate the ability to uniquely showcase
their complete skills, abilities and talents to a hiring manager and
dramatically improve their ability to gain an in person interview. Have
you any additional information for jobseekers? Tips on how to write
an effective resume and how to create a professional video interview are
included on the site, as well as a video about why you might want to take an
Assessment test. We are constantly creating new content for our Best Practices
section, and of course there are links to other sites with good interviewing,
resume writing, and video creation tips and advice. What
other online recruitment related services do you supply? The Recruitment
services that surround InterviewStudio are resume uploading, resume writing
assistance, assessment administration, assessment result reports and
consulting, social network linking, interview question libraries, video
interviewing, videography services, and career page linking. Our sister company,
Devon James Associates, Inc. (the company from which InterviewStudio was spun
out) is a full service RPO (Recruitment Process Outsourcing) company and also
provides HR consulting services in best practices and HRIS system selection. What
are your future plans for the site? For Candidates/Job
Seekers:
The InterviewStudio platform currently offers candidate profiles,
video interviews, online resumes, social networking profiles, professional
assessment tests, business endorsements, and data about the candidates from
internet search engines. These ingredients make up the total Candidate Showcase
that Job Seekers control and can send out to any Employer or Recruiter of their
choice. Future enhancements will include applicant reference and background
checking documents that the candidate can opt to show/hide in their Showcase
for selected Employers and Recruiters. For
Employers/Recruiters:
The InterviewStudio platform currently offers a rich view
of a candidate all on one screen in one place. Candidates have pre-built these
Showcases for you to view. In the near future, Employers/Recruiters will be
able to add up to five unique interview questions (in addition to their choices
from our 1000+ interview question library in existence today) per Job.
Additionally, we will be offering Employers/Recruiters the ability to search
the Showcase database by name, location, and keyword when the InterviewStudio
opt-in database gets a greater volume of candidates. We have many potential
plans for the site that will be released on a quarterly basis in response to
the input of our target markets.