Video Job Interviews

Gain a better understanding of who is applying to your roles whilst streamlining the recruitment process.

First define what are the video interview pre-employment questions and how can they benefit

We have devised the Video Interviewing question types for specific use by candidates taking part in video interviews. By taking on the role of the interviewer, these questions of your choosing form the basis of your candidate’s interview, and their corresponding responses will be recorded and brought to life through video.

Your candidates will provide pre-recorded video interviews to your pre-selected interview questions, allowing you to efficiently recruit employees who are the right fit for the role and your organisation.

In addition to choosing from easy-to-use, pre-built interview questions, we can create bespoke questions using your organisation’s content to ensure that the experience you are delivering is in line with your company culture.

Through this extended collaboration, you will be able to come to a more rounded decision on an individual before spending time arranging for candidates to come in for an interview to be held face-to-face.

How do video interviews and pre-employment questions work?

Candidates will respond to each question in the interview by pre-recording a video in front of a camera. Most often, this will be that of a phone or computer’s screen. Candidates will have the ability to record 3 responses to each question and will then need to upload their preferred version.

Having on-demand access to these video recordings will allow hiring managers to manage and review responses according to their schedules. Additionally, as each one-way video interview will have been pre-recorded, employers and recruiters who are onboarding as part of a team will be able to collaborate and share the videos amongst each other.

The benefits of video interviews and pre-employment questions?

While you are still in the pre-hire stage—before inviting a potential candidate in for a face-to-face interview with yourself as a sole interviewer, or for a panel interview with other members of your team—you can review the videos that your talent have sent through the video interview software that you are using.

In this way, you can be sure that any potential hire that makes it through to the next stage has been screened effectively, is well-qualified, and seems to be a good cultural fit. As a result, you will spend your time interviewing only the very best, top talent whose values align with those of your company culture.

How it works

Whether through using Microsoft Teams, Zoom, Skype or any other type of video conferencing software, we have all become more than accustomed to using video as a means of communication.

01 Research: The first step of the hiring process involves understanding the role, the type of hires you are hoping to attract and what you would like to learn about each candidate. Step 1 is an opportunity to think about the best-in-class talent you will be screening. What would a great recruitment video look like to you? What do you expect of new hires? How best can your prospective hires reflect this in their video content?
02 Idea: Once you have clearly defined your potential recruit’s role, you will need to select the interview questions you will use as part of the screening process. To ensure that your video interview is in line with your company culture and values, we will select questions based on the preferences that you will define during a consultation with us. Alternatively, we can create hiring qualifying questions that are entirely bespoke to your organisation, using completely original content.
03 Record: Your potential hires will be tasked with talking into a camera to answer your interview questions. They will conduct the one-way interview using video interview software to pre-record three answers to each question posed during the interview, uploading their preferred version each time. As each potential hire will be prompted to record their answers whilst looking into the camera and microphone, they need to maintain good eye contact and comfortable body language throughout.
04 Review: Once they are submitted, you will have unlimited on-demand access to your potential recruit’s recorded interviews. Each interviewer, recruiter, HR team member, and all others involved in the screening process can access the video interviews on-demand to decide which interviewees to invite an in-person interview. As a result, your teams will collaborate on hiring decisions without pressuring candidates by having numerous team members present during on-premise interviews.

The benefits of the video interview?

Using video as a means of interviewing and assessing potential employees during recruitment had become increasingly prevalent. The pandemic has seen remote working develop from once being seen as a lucrative benefit to a common aspect of our lives, our reliance on video interviews has extended even further.

An effective use of time: Simply put, video interviews allow both employers and potential hires to maximise their time. This highly efficient solution enables those responsible for hiring to review numerous prospective recruits without booking a single face-to-face meeting. For a task that would usually take an hour for each candidate, you will get back 75% of your time or see three times as many candidates – the choice is yours!
Reduce candidate no-shows: Inviting potential hires to on-premise or telephone interviews to have them not show up is both time-consuming and frustrating for employers. The platform on which video interviews take place allows candidates to log in and record their answers at any time, making coordination of diaries unnecessary. As such, candidates will not need to book time off of work to attend, their work-life balance will not be affected, and they will receive an excellent candidate experience.
Review more applicants: By reviewing pre-recorded video responses, less time will need to be assigned to each candidate, allowing you to focus on a larger number of applicants. Employers will experience a shorter, but more efficient time to hire, giving them the best chance of onboarding quality candidates ahead of the competition.
Improve collaboration: Video interviews allow you to include all of your team members in the hiring process. They can each analyse, review and offer opinions on the video recording of each potential hire at their leisure, comparing candidates in the process. By removing individual accountability, decision-making will become more transparent, efficient and collaborative.

Discovery Workshop

Our interactive workshop is centred around team building and fostering relationships between team members.

DNA Discovery Workshop

Taking team building to the next level. Understanding between team members is the foundation for good teamwork, and it is the key to a communicative, collaborative and supportive workplace environment.

Our team building games focus on how the different personalities, skills and traits within a team can fit together to produce an effective and supportive workplace environment.

Delivered either face to face or remotely, the team building games will focus on creating an atmosphere of understanding, collaboration, and communication through the language of colour.

We believe that teamwork starts with an understanding between team members and an acceptance of different personality types, and that fun team building activities are a great way to foster a spirit of collaboration. Through team building workshops, we learn that we work better together.

What is Character DNA and how do the team building activities work?

Character DNA is a personality test that helps participants understand themselves, understand others, measure behaviour and build good communication by adapting to differences. It displays a clear profile of an employee’s personality type: their strengths, weaknesses, leadership abilities, career path and working style.

What is a Character DNA Discovery Workshop?

Character DNA is a personality test that helps participants understand themselves, understand others, measure behaviour and build good communication by adapting to differences.

It displays a clear profile of an employee’s personality type: their strengths, weaknesses, leadership abilities, career path and working style.

Combining this unique personality test with one of our interactive team building Character DNA Days will provide the team with a valuable learning experience about the importance of effective teamwork. Our team building games focus on how the different personalities, skills and traits within a team can fit together to produce an effective and supportive workplace environment.

Why take part in the team building activities?

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to a better understanding of ourselves.” –Carl Jung.

Improve your understanding and self knowledge

Carl Jung’s influential Personality Theory is based on the importance of self-knowledge.

We believe that being open to learn about others, and embracing different types of people can enrich our own personality and understanding.

Enhance your teamwork skills and abilities

Teamwork can be a challenge, especially in groups with very different personalities and skill sets. That is why collaboration is the number one career skill. It is imperative that we make an effort to come to a better understanding of each other, and what better way than through enjoyable team building activities?

Better understanding between team members

Understanding between team members is the foundation for good teamwork, and it is the key to a communicative, collaborative and supportive workplace environment.

Create your own test

Create your own test or pre-employment quiz tailored to the specific needs of your workplace, and role.

Create your own skills test

We will work, adapt and innovate alongside you to create quizzes and exams that help you to effectively evaluate potential employees to ensure that you are hiring only the best talent into your organisation.

As an employer, you may know the answers you are looking for when recruiting. At Skillsarena, our Create Your Own tests can help you find the questions that bring out these answers!

We take pride in delivering our quizzes and tests 'right first time' without having to make compromises. By using insights from psychometric science, we create highly specific bespoke tests that offer immediate results.

Unlike off-the-shelf pre-employment tests, bespoke assessments are designed for use by one employer, so are more specific and useful by definition. Bespoke tests can be more inclusive, they can analyse potential employees with greater specificity and they offer an unrivalled candidate experience, making them far more likely to produce the result that you are looking for – a perfect hire.

What are 'Create Your Own' tests?

Pre-employment testing is important. It offers you an opportunity to quiz and evaluate applicants early on in the recruitment process to ensure that the results of these personality tests, aptitude tests and more help you choose a candidate who is a right fit for the organisation.

However, when recruiting for roles that are less simple to evaluate—roles that require more than pre-built, out-of-the-box testing—bespoke quizzes, our Create Your Own tests, can be a much more favourable option and a better indicator of job performance.

If you can effectively describe the result you are seeking through testing, we have the expertise to create a quiz or any other testing experience that can effectively assess a candidate’s performance.

Why 'Create Your Own'?

Our bespoke quizzes and exams can be made entirely from scratch and are the result of meticulous analysis and understanding of your needs as an employer. We will work alongside you to generate a pre-employment quiz that is perfectly suited to your testing preferences.

We will go beyond the generic option to create your own test that will bring out the qualities in your applicants that are most important to your organisation.

We use a variety of different test types to help you begin data-driven hiring. Aptitude tests, personality tests, pre-employment testing scenarios and are just some of our capabilities. Alternatively, if your organisation is currently using paper-based tests—whether these be worksheets, flashcards, fill-in-the-blanks etc we can convert these tests into more efficient online versions.

How it works

Every bespoke test is entirely different to the next. Due to their customisability, a Create Your Own Test can take on just about any format possible, we divide this process into four unique stages.

01 Design: We will take the time to understand your business, your priorities as an employer and the types of results you are hoping to receive from your quiz.
02 Develop: Our team will work alongside you to create a pre-employment test that that is uniquely your own. Employers can choose from numerous question types.
03 Pilot: In stage 3, we take your feedback on board to ensure that the test is as engaging as possible and that it will help with pre-hiring.
04 Release: We will release the newly-created bespoke quiz onto your hosted platform and make it instantly available to use.

Customer Success

Take a look at some examples of a Create Your Own test that we have created in the past. These are just examples of the truly individual, particular quizzes and exams we can create for clients.

Law Enforcement

Working for the law enforcement, we created bespoke assessments to measure critical records keeping, audio transcription accuracy and attention to detail.

The assessment was built on core system functionality and enhanced with additional capabilities to meet the unique needs of the police.

We worked closely with the police forces to incorporate highly bespoke content, configuring the marking criteria to their needs.

High Street Brand

We worked with a leading high street brand to produce a bespoke online chat simulator which assessed candidates' ability to handle multiple online chats at once.

The system was designed and built from the ground up using a number of fast development tools.

By working closely with the client throughout, their bespoke test was delivered right first time, within budget and perfectly tailored to their needs.

Why use a Create Your Own test?

Just as no two businesses are the same, the demands of no two roles are the same. Furthermore, ideal candidates for these roles will be extremely different, depending on who you ask.

Indication of future performance

Bespoke tests are more likely to accurately project an employee’s future performance than standard pre-employment quizzes as they better reflect the needs of the position and employer in question. In turn, the testing of core skills and job-related capabilities required of quiz takers is more efficient also.

Save time

It’s no secret that recruiting staff can be an extremely time-consuming process. More often than not, an employer’s inbox will become flooded with applications when recruiting, many of which will not be suitable for the role. Bespoke quizzes reduce the candidate pool significantly, as questions will have been deliberated designed to be more specific as opposed to open-ended.

Increase the standard of hire

As the volume of applications you will have received will be lower, bespoke tests work as a sort of de-selection method. Even though you are likely to receive less applications, you can feel more confident knowing that your applicants will encompass the competencies, personality traits and aptitude you are looking for.

Test specific knowledge

Bespoke tests are perfect if you need to test knowledge when recruiting into a niche sector, measure competence in an unusual job function or check familiarity with key process skills specific to your vacancies.

Skillsarena is a specialist player in this field. We have a highly adaptive team who take pride in both designing and building a tailored solution to re-design your people-processes from the ground up and adding value to your existing methodology by applying our technology and expert insights.