# Introduction to the Video Interviews

Video interviews on-demand are an excellent tool to know your candidates better. They work like this: You [send to the candidate an email invitation](/manage-candidates/candidate-view/invite-candidate-to-a-video-interview.md) to answer some questions. The candidate answers these questions via video by using the camera of his/her computer or smartphone, within a specific deadline you specify.

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Video interviews are fully integrated with the applicant tracking functionality Worklife Recruit but they are also available as a separate service.
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Follow these steps to start using video interviews:

* First you have to create a video interview by defining the questions of it.
* Then, you can send an invitation for this interview to candidate. There are two types of invitations:
  * [Invitations to internal candidates](/video-interviews/manage-video-interview-invitations/send-an-invitation-for-a-video-interview-to-an-internal-candidate.md) that they already exist in your Worklife Recruit account.
  * [Invitations to external candidates](/video-interviews/manage-video-interview-invitations/send-an-invitation-for-a-video-interview-to-an-external-candidate.md) when you do not use the applicant tracking functionality of Worklife Recruit.

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When you first sign-up to Worklife Recruit, a demo interview named "Getting to know you" is created that helps you to immediately test the service by [sending an invitation for a video interview to yourself](/video-interviews/manage-video-interview-invitations/send-an-invitation-for-a-video-interview-to-an-external-candidate.md).
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