A great video résumé can inject some personal flair into your job application, highlight important skills, and demand the hiring manager’s attention.
However, depending on the job you’re applying to, they can also be unorthodox or inappropriate.
Monday, October 28, 2019
Tips for sending a video résumé
A great video résumé can inject some personal flair into your job application, highlight important skills, and demand the hiring manager’s attention.
However, depending on the job you’re applying to, they can also be unorthodox or inappropriate.
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This article is interesting as I did not know that you could send video resumes to employers instead of the traditional written resume. I wonder if this would be instead of an in person interview, or in addition to it. To me, a video resume seems a little weird in a professional sense, as I think of home videos as not very good at presenting professional material. However, this article does a good job in describing how to make a video resume look professional in a low budget capacity. Cameras on phones today are very nice and can easily give a good professional look. I also think that not filming in a bedroom is an important tip as well. Just as a written resume is very distant from the candidates personal life, so should a video resume. However, I kind of think this article only glosses over audio. It really doesn't describe how to mitigate sound issues that always crop up in home videos with iPhones. It would be worth mentioning to get an external microphone and have it close to the interviewers face or have a friend help with keeping the microphone close to their face. It would also be worth mentioning that closets and bathrooms are usually good places to record audio.
I have helped my friends, creating videos of them singing or dancing for auditions, but I never thought of the potential of videos as a substitute for paper resumes. Indeed, if I was the person in charge of recruitment, video resume will surely be eye-catching in the pile of paper resumes that are impossible to confirm how much of the descriptions are high-flown. We cannot even verify whether those were actually written by the applicants. Although scripts can be prepared in advance and the applicant can practice acting it out thousand times before recording, there are definitely skills that you can tell just by the way a person speak. For instance, there is a spontaneous atmosphere around the person with high communication skills or adept interpersonal skills, which takes many years for one to acquire. On the other hand, this means that it can end up bringing ruin on yourself, unless you are a great actor.
Interesting!! Except you are an actor or specifically asked to do a video resume, I don't believe that anyone should be sending in one. This to me sounds like doing an in-person or online interview. These tips are very helpful when it comes to doing a video resume or creating a paper resume for a job. These tips are helpful reminders to see and hear often especially for the graduating class and internship application season which is right around the corner. The only tip I wholeheartedly agree with is to know when to send a video resume because not every job requires one. I wish the article had given tips on how to know when a video resume can be a great tool (except when you are specifically asked to do one). At the same time, I also feel that if I am sending in a video resume, I might as well be called in for an interview.
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