What is Hinterview?
Hinterview is your new two-way video tool for interviewing and presenting candidates. Hinterview allows you to record an interview and securely share it directly with your client, getting back instant analytics on views and engagement, helping you make placements faster and more often than ever before. It's a powerful sales tool that can turn a no into a yes. We’ve seen it happen time and time again!
Whether it's presenting your best candidate, showcasing a great cultural fit, overcoming an objection, or selling how your service is better than your competition, Hinterview will quickly be your no1 recruitment tool.
Here's what the finished candidate presentation via Hinterview looks like:
Hinterview can be used for both interviewing candidates and hiring managers too. It is a fantastic way to bring a candidate's profile to life or even make a job description more engaging and be a differentiator in your market.
Top tip: Using video in the recruitment process can reduce the time to hire by up to 70%.
How do I Get Started?
Hinterview is super simple to use and here's a video outlining how to use Hinterview.
Best Practices
You can conduct Hinterviews with your candidates and clients from anywhere, anytime, on any device. Here's some tips for you to share
Hinterviews with Candidates | Hinterviews with Hiring Managers |
One of Hinterview's main uses is to interview candidates either to spec them out or to replace the first stage interview for your clients. Using video to interview your candidates will allow your clients to review your candidates’ technical skillsets as well as communication, soft skills and even culture fit. These can be sent out to clients paired with the candidate’s CV. | Hinterview can also be used to bring job descriptions to life. With candidate engagement being a real focus for a lot of recruiters, it can be difficult to stand out. You can use Hinterview to interview your clients and give your candidates the best insight into the role.
Candidates spend 487% more time on adverts that contain video. This works especially well when using staff within the business to get candidates interested in the company. |
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Why send a Hinterview to a Hiring Manager?
Using Hinterview as part of your processes can cut down the interview to placement ratio by 70% It can also reduce the overall number of interviews taking place as it can prevent interviews with unsuitable candidates.
You can also enhance the relationships you have with your hiring managers by using this tool as you are exposing them to your interviewing skills which they may not see in a hiring process without Hinterview. Also, you can create bespoke video interviews, asking questions determined by the hiring manager.
Why send a Hinterview to Candidate?
We know that using video to advertise your clients' opportunities will attract more candidates but this is also an amazing tool to keep candidates engaged.
Giving your candidates an insight into their potential future manager can also be incredibly powerful - It can even help to tame their nerves ahead of a face-to-face interview.
Interviewing candidates using video and submitting it to your clients to support their application can really assist their job search too. With video speeding up the time to hire and cutting out interview stages, it can alleviate a lot of the stress that usually comes with searching for a new role.
Top tip: Adverts containing video get 35% higher application rate
Check out these examples of Hinterviews below:
What's next?
Now it's time to put your learning to the test. Want to know how you can close deals quicker? Here's some tasks to get things kicked off.
Step 1 | Record a Hinterview with a colleague to create a promotional video that you can send to your clients to demo how it can benefit them |
Step 2 | Identify any candidates you have in process that you may be waiting on feedback for and record a Hinterview with them. Send this to a client asking for feedback to speed up the process |
Step 3 | When you receive the good feedback, discuss doing this for all the candidates in the process and increase the fee's |
Step 4 | Make Placements! |
Send them to a colleague, your manager or even your CSM at Hinterview for feedback!
"I send a CV to my hiring manager and the candidate was rejected. I then conducted a Hinterview with the candidate and sent this back to the hiring manager. This resulted in the candidate getting an interview and an offer!" - Senior Consultant
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