InterviewStudio Launches Online Executive Candidate Screening Service

InterviewStudio announced today the availability of a pioneering Web-based service for screening executive-level candidates. InterviewStudio significantly reduces hiring time and costs by enabling employers and recruiters to screen a database of pre-qualified candidates. InterviewStudio will be exhibiting at OnRec Expo 2007 Sept. 18 and 19 in San Francisco Calif. at booth 111.

With InterviewStudio, senior-level candidates build a comprehensive media-rich ìshowcaseî online in an easy step-by-step process. Candidates can send a link of their showcase to any employer or recruiter to view online at InterviewStudio.

An InterviewStudio showcase combines resumes, video interviews with answers from an online database, reference checks, professional assessment test results, a candidateís Web page and portfolio, colleague endorsements and other personal data in Internet search engines and social networking sites like LinkedIn.

ìInterviewStudio shifts much of the responsibility to provide due diligence back on the job-seeker, which shortens the hiring process,î said InterviewStudio President and Founder Colleen Aylward, who ran a successful executive search firm for 15 years. ìAs online resumes became easily formulated by computers around keywords and sent in volume to any job posting with that keyword, the job boards made finding good candidates tougher, not easier. Recruiters and hiring managers are flooded with unqualified clutter, demanding an ever-increasing amount of time and money to uncover the right executive candidate.î

The showcase platform addresses the pressing need for employers to perform an executive job search quickly and efficiently. To date, no other company has created such a complete candidate screening service that includes a video interview with the other screening tools.

ìAs someone who has hired dozens of people, it is so difficult to get a sense for who an individual is on paper,î said Del Wilson, former Iomedex chief executive officer. ìInterviewStudio is a great idea and itís a great step forward in giving hiring managers that extra bit of crucial information on employees to make a decision.î

Typically, employers piece together candidate information throughout an extended interview and screening process. With a quick review of a candidateís showcase, hiring managers can make a ìfirst interviewî decision to move forward or not.

Screening qualified candidates online can also save significant time and travel costs. InterviewStudioís methodology promises to save from two to eight weeks in each hiring cycle, essential in a tight labor market.