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Candidate Experience,

3 dos and don’ts for an outstanding video-powered candidate experience

Annie Burkhardt
Improving the candidate experience is an evergreen dominating the yearly priority lists of things recruiters, recruitment marketeers and employer branding...

Waleria’s first year at Cammio- from onboarding to lockdown

Waleria Still
Starting a new job is exciting, stressful and often completely different from what you had planned. All beginnings are difficult,...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,
Recruitment process,
Video Recruitment,

Collaborative Hiring – Teamwork makes the dream work

Veerle Muller
Employees are the most valuable asset of your organisation. It is therefore very important to find new employees that fit...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,
Technology & Innovation,
Video Recruitment,

Trends in Retail Recruitment: The “Speed Dating” Approach to Interviews

Krisztian Toth
When it comes to hiring new employees, recruiters in the retail industry are facing a series of unique challenges. Most...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

What comes after everyone has heard the gospel of remote hiring?

Walter Hueber
As someone who has been evangelising remote hiring and video recruitment for years, the year 2020 is where things changed...
Technology & Innovation,

Why fit-for-purpose beats generic when it comes to video recruitment

Annie Burkhardt
I think it is fair to say that 2020 can already officially be declared as the year of video conferencing....
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Back to the future (office)

Jeroen Smits
2020 probably isn’t the year everyone expected it to be. Many things changed, including a lot of forced remote working...
Technology & Innovation,

7 telling signs you are in dire need of a video recruitment system

Annie Burkhardt
Considering a video recruitment system? Well, that makes you and just about everyone else. According to the COVID-impact survey by...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,
Technology & Innovation,
Video Recruitment,

Remote recruitment for beginners

Annie Burkhardt
It’s March 2020 and many recruiters are probably finding themselves in a completely new situation. Schools, restaurants and bars are...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,
Technology & Innovation,

How to hire collaboratively – even remote

Rogier Happel
Hire like bees, not jaguars! Would you associate yourself rather with a tiny, noisy insect or with an elegant predator...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

The ‘magic formula’ of success in the recruitment industry

Annie Burkhardt
After rapid expansion over the past few years the staffing and recruitment industry is slightly anxious about the future and...
Technology & Innovation,

Video: The secret superpower for your career page SEO

Annie Burkhardt
Your career page is one of the first touch points that introduces your organisation to potential candidates. It’s clear that...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Beyond diversity: let‘s discriminate the dicks (m/f/x)!

Dimitri Knysch
If you have been around in a job for a while you may have met some dicks (m/f/x). All of...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,
Video Recruitment,

Need for Speed: 3 tips to increase recruitment efficiency

Annie Burkhardt
With organisations seeking opportunities for growth and job markets heated up, both demand and competition for qualified talent are at...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Top 10 recruitment memes to brighten your day (2019 edition)

Annie Burkhardt
Being in recruitment or HR means that you spend a big part of your working day attending to ‘serious business’....
Candidate Experience,
Video Recruitment,

Happy recruitment, even on Monday

Jeroen Smits
Bob Geldoff sang it years ago: Tell me why I don’t like Mondays. Most people I know tend to not...
Graduate Recruitment,
Video Recruitment,

Recruiting Generation Youtube

Walter Hueber
According to a recent survey by Visual Objects, YouTube is the most-visited website by people age 18 to 24. Your...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Reshaping the recruitment funnel to win the talent war

Rogier Happel
Just like many other processes in your organisation, the one of recruitment is a funnel. It starts with a number...
Candidate Experience,
Graduate Recruitment,
Video Recruitment,

Why (Graduate) Recruitment should be free of Hindsight Bias

Walter Hueber
The Universities of Amsterdam and Utrecht in the Netherlands recently published results of their field study into discrimination of applicants...
Graduate Recruitment,
HR & Recruitment Strategy,
Video Recruitment,

Four stats about Generation Z and their implications for graduate recruitment

Annie Burkhardt
I have to admit I felt a little bit shocked when I was invited by my high school to attend...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

We’ve got a story to tell!

Jeroen Smits
Telling stories is very important in humanity. Some would even suggest it’s what makes us human. What’s the last story...
Video Tips & Tricks,

Camera shy? Not any longer!

Sandhna Chintoe
Video is gradually taking over the internet. A study by eyeviewdigital.com shows that using video on landing pages can increase...
Graduate Recruitment,
Video Recruitment,

School’s out, Graduates in!

Rogier Happel
When I looked in my calendar last Tuesday and noticed it was the 2nd of July, I got slightly exited....
Candidate Experience,
Video Tips & Tricks,

Tinder ❤ Recruitment

Loukie van Hoof
The life of a recruiter can be very difficult. Going through all of the applications, looking for the right candidate....
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Riding the recruitment roller coaster

Jeroen Smits
Summer has officially started, which means it’s getting to be peak time for theme parks! I’m sure most of you...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Make your company more diverse – use video!

Sandhna Chintoe
For some reason diversity is still a hot topic for most companies when it comes their employees. You would think...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

The Elephants in the (Interview) Room

Walter Hueber
Ever since evangelising video recruitment at events or in client meetings, I have noticed that there is not only one...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,
Technology & Innovation,

How to find the time and guts to innovate

Rogier Happel
Working for Cammio gets me in touch with many passionate HR-professionals every day. Whether it is on an event, on...
Video Tips & Tricks,

3 reasons why you should not miss VideoNOW

Annie Burkhardt
With just a few months to go before everyone sets off to their summer holiday destinations, HR-event season is in...
Recruitment process,

Recruitment Battle Royale

Jeroen Smits
One of the biggest trends in video games right now is Battle Royale. Even if you’re not into video games,...
Recruitment process,

Recruit outside your comfort zone

Sandhna Chintoe
Stuck in unsuccessful habits? Outside of your comfort zone is where the magic happens! At one point in your career...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Cover letter reincarnates as video pitch

Walter Hueber
Over the past few years there have been so many articles, posts and announcements declaring the ‘Death of the Cover...
Video Recruitment,

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No: It’s a Supercandidate!

Jeroen Smits
For the last decade or so, superheroes have dominated cinemas worldwide. Every other blockbuster coming out recently has shown us...
Recruitment process,

Clean up your recruitment process and improve your candidate experience

Sandhna Chintoe
Spring has arrived early this year! How lovely to see the sun again and to see everyone waking up from...
Video Recruitment,

CV vs Personality: Video recruitment explained in paradoxes

Rogier Happel
Video is on its way to become the norm in recruitment. There are numerous statistics that justify this phenomenon. Think...
Candidate Experience,
Video Tips & Tricks,

Let your personality shine! Get noticed with an added Video Pitch in your application!

Nicolas Macheda
Even in 2019, not all recruiters have a personality-centered recruitment process. Despite what you might think as a candidate struggling...
Video Recruitment,

Upgrading your hiring process : the benefits of video recruitment!

Jeroen Smits
January is the month for looking forward and fulfilling your first resolutions. It’s the time of year where you get...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Ready for recruitment success in 2019? Let’s first reflect on 2018!

Rogier Happel
Even though we are still only in the first week of January, 2019 already feels quite familiar. Of course, a...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,
Video Recruitment,

Assessing Soft Skills like an Expert with Video Interviews

Nicolas Macheda
According to the 2018’s Future of Job’s survey, 55% of employee in 2019 will have to pace up their existing...
Video Recruitment,

Video first!

Sandhna Chintoe
You would think that being Video Recruitment Experts, everyone at Cammio would live and breathe the video first values. We...
Candidate Experience,

All cheers to 2019, Year of the Candidate!

Nicolas Macheda
Hurray! As pyrotechnical feats light up the night sky with a thousand bangs and sparkles, we hail yet again the...
Recruitment process,
Technology & Innovation,

Food for thought: Automation for burgers and recruitment processes

Jeroen Smits
I am someone who likes to cook, and I actually think I’m pretty decent at it. My burger recipe has...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

New recruiting resolutions

Sandhna Chintoe
The end of the year is approaching and I can’t shake the feeling that 2018 went by too fast. Here...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Tracking recruitment success in the big fat data jungle

Rogier Happel
Recently I started training for the Spring Half Marathon. In my first attempts, I just left home, ran for a...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Personality-Centered Hiring to fight Staff Turnover

Nicolas Macheda
”As much as 80% of employee turnover is due to bad hiring decisions” – Harvard Business Review. The end-goal of...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

CAREERTOPIA – An Ambitious World Without Job Vacancies

Walter Hueber
One of my favorite movie categories is science fiction and the attraction has been growing over the years. The reason...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

From the magic lantern to using video as a tool for recruitment – a history of moving pictures

Jeroen Smits
We like video at Cammio. In 2018, we might take video for granted. It’s everywhere in our lives – we...
Candidate Experience,
Video Recruitment,

Using Video to Improve Engagement

Sandhna Chintoe
If you’re on our website, there’s a good chance you already know that using video makes your content a lot...
Technology & Innovation,

This is how a Partner Ecosystem drives customer loyalty

Rogier Happel
Having a strategically designed and appropriately promoted partner ecosystem has become a prerequisite in today’s business environment. This can be seen...
Recruitment process,

The Candidate to be Lead Character of your Story with Video Recruitment

Nicolas Macheda
EVENT: Meet us at the UNLEASH #HRTech Conference on 23-24 October in RAI Amsterdam booth 131! Your life at a...
Video Recruitment,

A short note about language barriers in recruitment, is it truly an obstacle?

Sandhna Chintoe
Just recently I received an email in a language I don’t speak. Using my favourite translation tool Deepl, I managed...
Recruitment process,

Keeping a personal touch when using automated interviews

Jeroen Smits
Meeting the right candidates is great, you’ll have energising conversations about what they will bring to your company and how...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Recruiters and Job Coaches – two sides of the same coin

Walter Hueber
Having promoted and evangelized video recruitment to talent acquisition experts over the years, I recently found myself in front of...
Technology & Innovation,

Augmented Reality in Recruitment : is the AR resume relevant yet?

Nicolas Macheda
Virtual and Augmented Reality have always been futuristic trends filling the hearts of tech-enthusiast with excitement. More so ever since...
Candidate Experience,

Does your candidate experience reflect your brand?

Rogier Happel
The journey from being a job-seeker, either latent or active, towards being a new employee is a special experience. This...
Video Recruitment,

Beating the odds at the Candidate Casino

Jeroen Smits
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the Candidate Casino! A place where you can have a good time, bet big and...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Summer recruitment: staying on top of your recruitment game

Sandhna Chintoe
Who doesn’t love the summertime? A time to kick back and relax: Enjoying the nice weather, long evenings on the...
Technology & Innovation,

What Video Interview means for Human Resources innovators

Nicolas Macheda
Video interview in HR has been gaining a lot of popularity in the past couple of years as the challenges...
Recruitment process,

Efficient recruitment – Why waste time you don’t have?

Jeroen Smits
When you are recruiting, you would like to spend time with the right candidates. You’re trying to eliminate unsuccessful candidates...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Key Strategies When Your Candidate Pool Dries Up

Walter Hueber
The US Commerce Department reported that the economy grew at an annual rate of 4.1% in the second quarter of...
Candidate Experience,
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Video interviews to bring an end to the Keyword’s dictatorship in CVs

Nicolas Macheda
The most powerful feature a video interview gives you is certainly the ability to get a glimpse of a candidates’...
Video Tips & Tricks,

World Cup 2018: Using football fever to boost your recruitment process

Jeroen Smits
FIFA World Cup 2018 is in full swing, and around the world fans are cheering on their national teams. Being...
Recruitment process,
Video Recruitment,

Creating a pitch perfect recruitment process by using a video pitch

Jeroen Smits
One way to add video to the recruitment process is by allowing candidates to record a video pitch. This is...
Video Tips & Tricks,

Lights, Camera, Action! Making videos like a superstar

Sandhna Chintoe
2 weeks ago, I had the pleasure to go to the Beyonce and Jay-Z concert in Amsterdam. Even though both...
Video Recruitment,

Can Video Interviews support Talent Equality?

Walter Hueber
I was honoured to be invited by the Fair Pay Innovation Lab and SAP SE to join the Fair Pay...
Technology & Innovation,

How to find the best video interview software for your recruitment strategy

Nicolas Macheda
You’re looking to improve your recruitment process? Heard about video as a mean to make better, lasting hirings? Then welcome...
Technology & Innovation,

What makes HR Tech and Video Recruitment a growth market?

Walter Hueber
I have personally always been interested in growth markets. Not only because growth markets create commercial oxygen and opportunity for...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Privacy in recruitment – Securing your candidate’s data

Jeroen Smits
Hot off the heels of the EU-GDPR legislation, data privacy is top on every company’s mind. The new legislation has...
Recruitment process,

Goodbye to the Motivational Letter

Sandhna Chintoe
Time to say goodbye! More and more I feel like we are getting ready to say goodbye to the motivational...
Video Tips & Tricks,

What makes a good video interview? Some advice from our experts

Nicolas Macheda
Congratulations! The company you’ve applied to has shortlisted you for a video interview! Now you probably either think “Hooorayyyyyy!” or...
Recruitment process,

Using video to get a higher view rate for your job listings

Jeroen Smits
In many of our blogs, we describe how video can help you select the best talent. But did you know...
Technology & Innovation,

Ready Player One? – When the Tools of the Future are already here

Jeroen Smits
One of my favourite genres in films and books is science fiction, so you can understand why I am very...
Technology & Innovation,

Why a video recruitment solution should not be powered by duct tape

Walter Hueber
I truly like blogging. It allows me to assess the world around me with clear vision, have an opinion on...
Recruitment process,

CVs are a focused, expertly crafted combination of excellent buzzwords

Jeroen Smits
“Leonardo Da Vinci is a detail oriented self-starter with experience in drawing” I recently came across a LinkedIn post that...
Recruitment process,

Recruitment Technology for an Impatient Generation

Walter Hueber
In this era of instant gratification, we expect same- or next-day deliveries after buying online, we can retrieve any information...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Assumptions in screening – the mother of all screw ups!

Sandhna Chintoe
“If you assume, you make an ass out of u and me.” Recently I have been in a position to...
Technology & Innovation,

How profile pictures will reveal your personality

Walter Hueber
Running a video recruitment company for almost 5 years has created a professional obsession about the correlation between image (video)...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

How to achieve recruitment fitness?

Walter Hueber
Last week I went for my annual health check-up. Being an entrepreneur in HR Tech means that fitness is key...

Key Advantages of Video Interviews for Employers

Annie Burkhardt
This is a guest article by Elisa Abbot. Everything in business is changing at a rapid pace, including recruitment technology....
Recruitment process,

Feel the love: using your dating skills to up your hiring game

Jeroen Smits
Happy Valentine’s day! For recruiters, dating should be a piece of cake. They do it on a daily basis! Ok,...
Candidate Experience,

Delight candidates! Add a human touch to your hiring process

Sandhna Chintoe
Recruiters these days have access to many tools that make it possible to automate recruitment processes and make life easier...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

What rock star recruitment looks like in 2018

Niddia Paauwe
A lot happened in the world of talent acquisition in 2017. The war for talent came back in full swing and...
Candidate Experience,

A 5-star experience: Why employee experience matters

Jeroen Smits
“Customers will never love a company until the employees love it first” – Simon Sinek Employee experience is recognised as...
Candidate Experience,

How to gain commitment from your candidate? Use video!

Sandhna Chintoe
Recruiters worldwide are wrapped up in a war trying to find (and recruit) the best possible candidates for their vacancies....
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Recruitment resolutions for 2018

Jeroen Smits
Let me start this off by wishing you a very happy New Year. Every year, I make a few New...
Video Recruitment,

How video recruitment can help to de-bias your hiring process


Niddia Paauwe
Research has shown that hiring processes are often biased and unfair. According to the 2017 Global Human Capital Trends Report...
Technology & Innovation,

Murder on the Recruitment Express

Walter Hueber
At the time of writing this blog post, the 2017 film based on the Agatha Christie Detective Novel – Murder...
Video Recruitment,

6 reasons to use video interviews in your hiring process [Infographic]


Niddia Paauwe
The world of recruiting continues to evolve as powerful new recruitment technology become accessible to employers. Video interviews are most...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

How video will get your recruitment process ready for 2018

Sandhna Chintoe
The end of the year is coming, before you know it, Christmas dinner is finished and the bottles of champagne...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

10 top recruitment memes and videos to re-energize your day

Niddia Paauwe
Our work forms a major part of our (adult) lives, and hopefully, we love what we do. However, even if...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

When Recruitment becomes Top Sports

Walter Hueber
There is an abundance of articles, books and essays on patterns we try to find amongst successful people. I recently...
Candidate Experience,

What do candidates actually think of video recruitment?

Sandhna Chintoe
Asking feedback in your recruitment process is an important part of your way to optimize your candidate journey. Only when...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Why Recruiters are from Mercurius and Hiring Managers from Pluto

Mark Vasse
And how to travel to the same planet… You have spent weeks (and probably months) to search, screen and select...
Technology & Innovation,

Q&A with recruitment software provider HROffice

Niddia Paauwe
At Cammio, we believe that we can achieve so much more if we work together with other specialists in HR...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

It’s a big ocean to recruit in, but what’s the catch?

Simona Iancu
“I feel that there are no good candidates.” “It’s definitely a candidate’s market!” I hear recruiters say such things more...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Hired on skills, Fired on personality?

Mark Vasse
Most companies select and hire candidates based on a traditional combination of CV , motivation letter and the impression they...
Video Recruitment,

5 things to consider when choosing your video recruiting provider

Niddia Paauwe
Today’s world is developing at an ever-increasing pace. The amount of new technology that has come into the market over...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Candidate experience or… REVERSE thinking in HR

Sandhna Chintoe
Have you ever applied for a job and never heard back after your application? Or did it take forever for...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

The Holy Grails of Recruitment

Walter Hueber
I first learned about the Holy Grail in the 1975 movie “Monty Python and the Holy Grail”. Being a 1974-model...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,
Technology & Innovation,
Video Recruitment,

Crossing borders – the pain of recruiting abroad

Sandhna Chintoe
Finding qualified candidates is getting more difficult every day. Especially when you are recruiting in a specialized field of work....
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Graduate recruitment – main challenges and technological solutions

Simona Iancu
By 2020 almost 50% of the working population will be made up of millennials, and within the next 8 years...
Technology & Innovation,

Is A.I. in Recruitment a Kind of Magic or a scientific black-box?

Walter Hueber
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has made it to recruitment. Unlike the promise of Big Data a decade ago, (which turned out...
Candidate Experience,

Power to the Candidate!

Walter Hueber
The new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) legislation is coming into force in May of 2018. From then, citizens...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Are you biased?

Mark Vasse
Bias (/ˈbʌɪəsd/), a preconceived opinion about something or someone, according to the dictionary. I admit, it’s difficult to know if...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Recruiters, put on your marketing hat or prepare to perish

Niddia Paauwe
4 recruitment marketing tactics to up your hiring game Globally, hiring experts are increasingly challenged to successfully compete in the war...
Candidate Experience,
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Asking questions that matter: hiring for cultural fit

Sandhna Chintoe
Few things cause more headaches for a recruiter than a bad hire. Still, no less than 95% of organizations admit...
Recruitment process,

How to add more flexibility into your hiring process

Ikrame el Ghalbzouri
Don’t you hate it when you have a whole list of candidates to pre-screen, but when you call them, all...
Recruitment process,

Bringing smiles in hospitality recruitment

Walter Hueber
Did you know that the hospitality sector employs 12 million people in the EU? According to Eurostat, the tourism industries...
Recruitment process,

What type of recruiter would you like to be?

Sandhna Chintoe
Whilst delivering workshops for recruiters on how they can implement video technology into their hiring process, I often get asked:...
Recruitment process,

Dealing with unconscious bias in diversity hiring

Simona Iancu
Having a diverse workforce in terms of gender, race and ethnical background is becoming increasingly important for all companies. Focusing...
Recruitment process,

Hiring for cultural fit: 3 tips for success

Ikrame el Ghalbzouri
The concept of cultural fit as a critical element in the hiring process has become increasingly prevalent in recent years. While education, skills,...
Recruitment process,

Time to get organized with your job interviews!

Walter Hueber
The job interview is still the most popular selection tool when hiring new employees. Not much has changed over the...
Technology & Innovation,

“I have a box full of HR Tech toys, want to play?”

Mark Vasse
Last week I followed a thread on Linkedin on a disappointed candidate who never heard back after his many CV...
Candidate Experience,

How video recruitment can help you improve candidate experience

Ikrame el Ghalbzouri
With the recruitment landscape rapidly changing towards a candidate-led market, providing a good candidate experience is more important than ever...
Candidate Experience,

How to make sure that your candidates see the value of pre-recorded video interviews

Simona Iancu
The truth is that pre-recorded video interviews seem unnatural. Talking into a camera is nothing like speaking to a person...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Workplace gender parity | It’s time to close the gap!

Niddia Paauwe
Workforce diversity and equality are gaining more and more momentum over the last decades. Significant gains have been made when...
Technology & Innovation,

Scaring off job candidates with a ‘gutted’ HR Infrastructure

Walter Hueber
The market for HR Software and Tools is estimated to be around 14 billion USD and growing every year with...
Video Recruitment,

There is no point to video interviewing. Is there?

Mark Vasse
“I only meet candidates face to face” I heard the last time I talked to a recruiter in the public...
Candidate Experience,

From flattery to frustration. Where headhunting is going wrong & how to fix it

Simona Iancu
Recruiters are under a lot of pressure to get great candidates and they simply have to go chase after those...
Video Recruitment,

Video-powered hiring | An introductory to video recruitment

Ikrame el Ghalbzouri
Having a tough time selecting the best candidate for your company? Have you hired the wrong person for the job?...
Recruitment process,

Breaking the bad: 5 tips to prevent bad hires

Niddia Paauwe
A strong, competitive and balanced workforce is at the heart of every winning organization. In order to build and maintain...
Recruitment process,

Why a job interview should not be an interrogation

Walter Hueber
I recently had dinner with a good friend who is a police detective and regularly has to interrogate criminal suspects...
Recruitment process,

The Deep Blue… Recruiting Sinkhole

Mark Vasse
Every once in a while, searching for exotic new travel destinations, Google presents me ‘spontaneously’ with pictures of the 10...
Video Recruitment,

If you value your candidates, use video interviews. Here’s why.

Simona Iancu
When I talk about video interviewing, oftentimes recruiters point out to me that they value their candidates, so they prefer...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

What Online Shopping teaches Recruiters in 2017

Walter Hueber
It’s that time of year again. Having left the stress of year-end behind us, we plan for a new, fresh...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

The recruitment challenges of today

Vanessa Garro-Peeters
The recruitment industry has completely evolved over the past 20 years. New technologies have transformed the way employers recruit and...
Candidate Experience,

Maximize Hiring Success: 5 Tips to create a winning Candidate Experience

Niddia Paauwe
Are you treating your candidates in the same way that you would treat your customers? The candidate experience is an...
Video Recruitment,

Why Personality Trumps the CV

Walter Hueber
What are we exactly looking for in a candidate when recruiting for our team? More and more we see that...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

The Invisible Candidate

Mark Vasse
A man wearing a hat, dark glasses and his head and hands completely covered with bandages, arrives at the local...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

How technology can help us hire the talent of the future

Simona Iancu
The most innovative businesses today aim to re-empower their employees to think and act like entrepreneurs. This means that the...
Recruitment process,

Why phone interviews don’t (always) work

Vanessa Garro-Peeters
Working in the HR software space for the past several years, I’ve had the privilege of having great clients in...
Video Recruitment,

Q&A with recruitment solution provider HelloFlex

Niddia Paauwe
We believe in an open, integrated and collaborative business model where we can add value based on our core expertise,...
Technology & Innovation,

Implementing HR Technology: 4 Tips for Success

Niddia Paauwe
HR Technology is booming. According to Deloitte and Bloomberg, the entire HR software market is now worth over 15 billion...
Recruitment process,

Why HR Tech Integrations should be as easy as building with LEGO

Walter Hueber
The reality in todays’ HR Technology landscape is that there is an abundance of tools, solutions and software available to...
Video Recruitment,

My first blind date and what it taught me about job interviews

Mark Vasse
I look at my watch. Hmm, only 20.30. Where is the coffee I ask myself. “Yes” I hear myself replying to...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Measuring recruitment performance: Why ‘Quality of Hire’ should be your number 1 metric

Niddia Paauwe
Living in the age of big data and workforce analytics, we see performance measurement processes being applied in nearly every...
Recruitment process,

Why you will conduct ever more job interviews

Walter Hueber
The job interview is a key element in the recruitment process to select the right candidates for the job. It...
Candidate Experience,

How to woo your candidates in the selection process – 5 tips to improve candidate experience

Simona Iancu
Congratulations! You have succeeded in creating a strong employer brand that attracts the best talent. You now have your pick...
Video Recruitment,

Can’t recruiters and hiring managers just get along?

Vanessa Garro-Peeters
In the world of recruitment there are two major stakeholders in the process (excluding the candidate, of course), the recruiter...
Technology & Innovation,

Recruiters – “Go mobile or go home”

Walter Hueber
More then half of the world’s population has a phone. In Germany three out of four people owns a smart...
Recruitment process,

How to recognize recruiting that’s beyond its expiration date

Walter Hueber
The supply of recruitment technology is sometimes mind blowing. Developments follow each other in an ever-accelerating speed bringing you more...
Video Recruitment,

Busting 4 common myths about video recruitment

Niddia Paauwe
Video recruitment is rapidly gaining momentum across sectors and geographies. With more and more companies creating hiring success stories using...
Video Recruitment,

Why Video and Assessments are a Perfect Match

Simona Iancu
Technological advancements are gradually changing the way we interact; Skype, Google Hangouts and Viber are setting the norm for social...
Video Recruitment,

Why Skype is not the Right Tool for Video Recruitment

Jessica Weber
The HR sector is continuously turning its back to the traditional recruiting process where on-site interviews were the solution for...
Recruitment process,

How to Select for the (Soft) Skills of 2020?

Walter Hueber
I have to admit that I had totally missed the “Future of Jobs Report” from the World Economic Forum this...
Candidate Experience,

The candidate era has started. How do we stay ahead?

Niddia Paauwe
Whereas until recently the recruitment market was driven by a scarcity of vacancies, today’s recruitment landscape has flipped and is...
Video Recruitment,

Trends in Retail Recruitment: The “Speed Dating” Approach to Interviews

Simona Iancu
When it comes to hiring new employees, recruiters in the retail industry are facing a series of unique challenges. Most...
Recruitment process,

Why hiring managers need to walk the talk

Walter Hueber
Almost all job openings anywhere start with a hiring manager wanting to replace a team member or to expand team...
Recruitment process,

How important is mobile in recruitment?

Vanessa Garro-Peeters
Having been in the HR technology industry for a while, I am often confronted with opposing views on just how...
Recruitment process,

“Best Place To Interview” vs “Great Place to Work”

Walter Hueber
Every year top lists are published on the “Best Companies to Work”, “Great Place to Work” and the like, both...
Video Recruitment,

Q&A with staffing and recruiting software provider Carerix

Niddia Paauwe
We believe in an open, integrated and collaborative business model where we integrate our innovative video recruitment solution with other...
Recruitment process,

Don’t fear change. Fear your out-dated hiring process

Niddia Paauwe
Driving change in your organization from the back seat An organizations ability to be agile and innovative is vital to...
Recruitment process,

Why recruitment funnels all too often end in traffic jams

Walter Hueber
The recent image of a 100KM traffic jam on the expressway from Beijing (China) was truly impressive. We are talking...
Video Tips & Tricks,

Being personal while being professional

Vanessa Garro-Peeters
A colleague and I were recently discussing some interesting LinkedIn profiles that we’ve come across in our time. I’m no...
Recruitment process,

Using technology to humanise the recruitment process

Sandhna Chintoe
There is an increasing debate around if we are humanising or dehumanising the recruitment process by using technology. Almost everyone can...
Recruitment process,

Hiring for personality. Meet the person behind the CV!

Niddia Paauwe
Recruiting the best talent for your organization is never an easy process. There are so many things to consider when...
Recruitment process,

How to reverse the global trend of longer hiring processes?

Walter Hueber
Employer review portal Glassdoor recently published an interesting study titled: “Why is Hiring Taking Longer”. Average interview processes have grown by...
Video Recruitment,

Q&A with recruitment software provider Greenhouse

Niddia Paauwe
We believe in an open, integrated and collaborative business model where we can add value based on our core expertise,...
Recruitment process,

How will job automation affect recruiters?

Walter Hueber
More and more we come across articles on the automation of jobs. They seem to give a semi-coordinated warning signal...
Recruitment process,

Video interviews: the closest to a face to face you can get

Sandhna Chintoe
There is no better way to find the best talent than conducting a face to face interview with each good...
Recruitment process,

International Recruitment: why engaging with candidates across borders is more important than ever

Niddia Paauwe
Our modern world is becoming seemingly smaller by the day. Globalization has created a market that is increasingly dynamic and...
Recruitment process,

Why not to recruit the egg-laying wool-milk-pig

Walter Hueber
I recently came across the German expression of the impossible: “Eierlegende Wollmilchsau” (freely translated into “Egg-laying wool-milk-pig”). Not sure why...
Video Recruitment,

Having an interview this weekend?

Sandhna Chintoe
It is Thursday! Weekend is already around the corner. The interview time is coming! Did you know that a good...
Video Recruitment,

Taking the guesswork out of recruiting

Niddia Paauwe
No matter the size of the company, having a workforce that meets the company’s needs is vital for an organization’s...
Recruitment process,

Recruiting? Stop asking for experience, focus on potential

Sandhna Chintoe
97% of companies recruiting for a job vacancy require having “x” number of years of experience working in the same...
Video Recruitment,

Tourism & Hospitality recruitment; selecting the best talent by adding personality to the CV

Niddia Paauwe
Today’s global Tourism & Hospitality industry is extremely dynamic. Increased competition, shifting economics and emerging markets have resulted in a...
Recruitment process,

Why some employers still “Interview like it’s 1999”  

Walter Hueber
When speaking at events on the topic of video in recruitment, I regularly show a video from The Armstrong and...
Recruitment process,

Keeping the human in a technology driven recruitment world

Niddia Paauwe
Our modern world is ever-evolving and so is the way people are being hired. New technologies and a wide-range of...
Recruitment process,

Meet all your candidates face to face

Sandhna Chintoe
Let’s put it this way. You are a recruiter. You receive hundreds of applications per vacancy. You have an ATS...
Candidate Experience,

The emotional recruitment process

Vanessa Garro-Peeters
At a recent HR event, I spoke with an attendee that had years of experience as a recruiter. He said...
Candidate Experience,

Video interviewing candidate preferences

Niddia Paauwe
In the quest for a more efficient and reliable recruitment process, technological developments offer organizations new opportunities in selecting and...
Candidate Experience,

From Customer Experience to Candidate Experience

Sandhna Chintoe
Recently, I decided to make a twist in my career and leave the company I was working at for almost...
Recruitment process,

Recruitment Cost vs. Value of Hire

Walter Hueber
Last week I was invited to join a discussion panel at the In-House Recruitment Expo in London. The panel was...
Recruitment process,

Recruitment in 2015

Niddia Paauwe
We want to take this opportunity to wish you a great video-powered recruitment year and thank you for your continued...
Recruitment process,

Eliminating Bias in Recruitment

Vanessa Garro-Peeters
Working in video recruitment, I am often confronted with the concern “doesn’t video interviewing increase the likelihood of bias and...
Technology & Innovation,

Recruitment technology adoption

Niddia Paauwe
In our modern and ever-changing world, new technologies have helped upgrade the way job candidates are being hired. The development...
Recruitment process,

Is your recruitment process hurting your innovative business strategies?

Niddia Paauwe
Organizations that want to create a basis for long-term success need to make sure their company is able to innovate...
Recruitment process,

Be Creative in a Crisis

Vanessa Garro-Peeters
In 2008 I was a bright-eyed bushy-tailed sales representative at an American IT reseller. It was a rather memorable year...
Recruitment process,

Free-range working or interview wherever I roam

Walter Hueber
More people are saying goodbye to the traditional view of the workplace or work itself. The Internet, mobile computing and...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Graduate recruitment: how to select the best talent in a competitive market

Niddia Paauwe
Organizations that want to create a basis for long-term success need to make sure their company is able to innovate...
Technology & Innovation,

Using technology to strengthen recruiter and hiring manager relationships

Niddia Paauwe
The relationship between recruiters and hiring managers has always been subject of ongoing discussions in the HR world. As recruiter...
Technology & Innovation,

Abundance of Choice in the HR Technology Ecosystem

Walter Hueber
Last week Cammio exhibited at Zukunft Personal in Cologne. The audience and exhibitors are primarily German, however, it is by...
Technology & Innovation,

Technology Reluctance in the Workplace

Vanessa Garro-Peeters
This is a topic that really resonates with me. Having spent most of my career in the digital and tech...
Recruitment process,

Employee Turnover

Vanessa Garro-Peeters
There is a noticeable difference in commitment from the adults of my parents generation and my own. I suppose this...
Recruitment process,

Generation Intern – the entrance to a career path

Walter Hueber
The Economist recently published an article early September on “The Internship”. It paints a picture of a growing contingent of...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Social media in recruitment

Niddia Paauwe
With the emergence of social media, the way we interact both personally and professionally has forever changed. Where candidates once...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Retail Recruitment: challenges and solutions in a fast changing industry

Niddia Paauwe
Hiring in retail is rising again after a few years of decline due to a lack of consumer spending and...
Video Recruitment,

Why video interviewing will improve your hiring process

Niddia Paauwe
Regardless of the current economic climate, the average number of interviews is increasing as staffing moves more towards temporary staffing...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Only half a minute for a first impression

Walter Hueber
For decades, research has indicated that it only takes us 30 seconds to get a dependable first impression and is...
HR & Recruitment Strategy,

Using your employer brand to attract the best talent

Niddia Paauwe
Employer branding plays a major role in today’s recruitment process and enhances a company’s ability to attract the right talent....
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