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 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.

Video interviews are fully integrated with the applicant tracking functionality of SmartCV but they are also available as a separate service.

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 that they already exist in your SmartCV account.

  • Invitations to external candidates when you do not use the applicant tracking functionality of SmartCV.

When you first sign-up to SmartCV, 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.