The Video Resume, Part 5 – mycareeri.com

mycareeriAs we continue on our journey to investigate and research the topic of video resumes we found a service by the name of mycareeri.  The other day we spoke with Talent Rooster‘s President and CEO, David Decapua and today we have our first side by side comparison…mycareeri.com.  Today we interviewed staffing guru and President of mycareeri, Lee Fossey.  Lee has been leading staffing organizations internationally for the past 15 years.  To put is simply, he knows what it takes to help people find and secure employment.  The intent of mycareeri is for a job seeker to have a portal to upload a video of themselves, one to three minutes in length and showcase their talent to the over 300 companies on their site looking for talented people.

Mycareeri is based in greater Los Angeles, established and launched in May 2010.  The idea came to launch mycareeri as a side venture from the original site mycollegei.com.   Mycollegei.com was a site, started by an entrepreneur, Bill Barnett, when helping his twin daughters apply for colleges.  He was overloaded by the amount of paperwork, applications, visits and other junk that goes along with school and decided why not have a video sent along with their apps.  Well, that idea lead into relationships with 14 major universities across the US from USC to Georgetown and Pepperdine.

Lee describes mycareeri as a video resume portal that is a combination of Linkedin, Facebook, Youtube, throwing in a little Monster.  Originally the site was a FREE service to Employers however a $50 annual hosting charge for job seekers.  Their strategy changed to totally FREE when they realized that the would be better served in accomplishing their end goal helping the job seeker improve their odds of getting in front of a prospective employer and landing a job.  Mycareeri suggested that they are not in the business to replace the traditional resume but to enhance it.  To give the job seeker the opportunity to say “look at me” and get in front of an employer.

Check out their introductory animation:

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2 Responses to “The Video Resume, Part 5 – mycareeri.com”

  1. Lee Fossey Says:
    October 29th, 2010 at 11:33 pm

    Thank you for giving us a Shout Out!

  2. Sara Kmiecik Says:
    January 25th, 2011 at 11:40 am

    Very interesting – I have been considering a video resume and will definitely look into this!

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