One-way video interview software promises to cut down companies’ hiring time from three months to just two weeks

Globally, companies are turning to one-way video interview software to save themselves as much as 70% of the time they would’ve spent on hiring. 

This is because hiring has been found to be one of the most time-intensive exercises of any company, with companies taking as much as 37 days to make just one hire. 

Furthermore, Ideal.com has found that an interview panel would take 23.5 hours just to review candidates before moving towards making a hire. 

The founder of Wamly, South Africa’s biggest one-way video interview software company, Francois de Wet notes that where the software has been implemented, some companies have cut hiring time from three months to just two weeks. 

This is done by giving both the candidate and interview panel flexibility on when to complete an interview and when to review. 

How one-way video interview software helped Momentum hire faster and quicker 

When Momentum started making use of Wamly, they managed to save themselves more than 70% of the time they would’ve spent on hiring. 

The software helped the company dramatically reduce the time spent on filling a vacancy - and Momentum has since completed more than a 1000 interviews through it. 

Through the software, Momentum will send all shortlisted candidates a link to complete a one-way video interview. Once reviewed, final candidates are invited for face-to-face interviews and psychometric testing before making a hire. 

Using Wamly, Momentum was able to brand the entire experience – telling potential employees a story of the company’s culture and values and thereby building brand awareness. 

Why has one-way video interview software become such a force within the recruitment process?

More and more companies are realising the need to reinvent, reimagine and disrupt the way they do things. This is because a number of the typical processes within a company are no longer best suited for the goals a business would like to achieve. 

One of the key areas where companies have found to be wasting time is in their hiring process, where they take too long to make a hire, and often hires are found to not be best suited for the organisation’s needs. 

Furthermore, the Covid-19 pandemic has accelerated technology adoption within organisations, making companies more willing to adopt technology to improve their processes. 

One-way video-interview software such as Wamly was designed to facilitate, optimise, and enhance the entire hiring process to save an organisation time and operate more efficiently. 

Today thousands of companies make use of one-way video interview software. 

What is one-way video interview software? 

One-way video interview software allows businesses and organisations to create questions in an app, send hundreds of potential candidates a link who would then all complete a one-way video interview (without the employer being present). 

Once a candidate has completed the interview, the employer will be alerted and will be able to scan through the recorded videos and identify the best of the best for in-person interviews.

During one-way video interviews, it is up to the company’s discretion how many questions they would like to ask and how long they would allow a candidate to answer a question.

But, the typical one-way video interview has five to eight questions, with 30 seconds to one minute to respond to each question.

A typical one-way video interview lasts between five and 15 minutes, compared to the hour a panel would typically have spent interviewing candidates out of courtesy. 

Normally, the hour interview takes place, even if it is understood early in the interview that the candidate would not be suitable for the position. 

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