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There’s no doubt a video application can help candidates to stand out in a competitive market, but have you considered that the same advantage applies to employers?
Today’s job seeker holds the balance of power when it comes to supply and demand, with a decline of candidates per opening from 6.2 t o 1.2 over the last decade, employers are now competing to provide employment offers and create work cultures that attract and retain the best and brightest to their offices from all over the world.
Check out how just a few of these amazing brands are using VideoMyJob below ↙️
Bring your employer brand to life
Congratulations, you’ve articulated and defined your employer brand internally, your next challenge is demonstrating how your employer brand translates to real-life. Video job ads are a great way to tell your brand story and support your employee value proposition with evidence: a snippet of employee testimonial, a pan of your modern office space and great location and a few sentences from the hiring manager. In under 90 seconds you can build a compelling picture with video of what it’s like to work with your company, helping candidates put themselves in the shoes of one of your employees and sparking an emotional connection. To achieve the equivalent in a text job ad would take … well, actually it’s just not possible! A video tells a thousand words.
Who do jobseekers want to hear from?
I know your marketing team just finished producing that lovely, polished, big budget video which now holds prime position on your careers home page - but did you know that in a recent analysis of 5000+ career sites by CareerBuilder, just 7.5 per cent of candidates actually visit career site home pages?
Lighthouse research claims that candidates want to see videos of hiring managers 2.5 times more often than company overviews and 10 times more often than an HR/recruiter message. Smashfly’s Recruitment Marketing Benchmarks Report analysed the recruitment marketing practices of Fortune 500s and declared that ‘job descriptions are still boring’ with only 1 per cent of F500 companies used images or video in job descriptions. That’s what I call a golden opportunity.
What’s in your recruitment marketing toolbox?
So what can the modern recruiter do to better communicate the role and your unique company culture to attract the right candidate? Use video, of course.
As the Lighthouse research shows, job seekers want to hear about the role from the person they will be reporting to. Do your candidates have enough information to self-select out of the application process if your workplace culture or values are not aligned with theirs? Low job satisfaction often highlight mismanagement of expectations or incomplete job descriptions. Video is the easiest way to build a complete picture.
With video, you can include footage of team events, illustrate a ‘day in the life’, take the viewer on a tour of the office or local hotspots, show off your equipment, tech or state-of-the-art meeting rooms—the options are endless. Hiring someone who is well-suited for both the job and your company culture has the potential to create an enormous return on investment.
Increase your reach and target passive candidates
Video also allows you to penetrate and reach all the unique and wonderful digital communities your ideal candidates inhabit. Use video to craft a compelling, authentic insight into your company’s culture and the opportunity, that supports the great story that your employment brand is already telling. Video allows you to leverage your company’s brand cachet on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and other relevant social platforms, to leverage your employee networks and to promote opportunities in niche forums and groups.
Recently a large multi-national customer of ours used video to recruit for an Electrical Site Manager role in the United Arab Emirates. The video ‘starred’ the hiring manager, was shot onsite and used some UAE tourism footage to paint a picture of the city and region the role would operate out of. The Recruitment Manager shared the video to his personal LinkedIn network and garnered almost 40,000 views in two weeks on his profile alone (in addition to 780 organic YouTube views). Within 14 days of publishing the video they were interviewing two excellent candidates for a role that had previously been challenging to recruit for. Through video, this company is gradually improving what were previously considered static metrics, from time-to-hire to cost-per-hire to candidate experience.
In the fight for passive talent, video is critical to success. With less than 1 per cent adoption of video job advertising, no better tool exists to tell your story and stand out in a competitive market.
