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The Video Resume, Part 5 – mycareeri.com
As 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:
Video Resume, Part 4 – Talent Rooster
As we continue our investigation into the intriguing topic of the video resume, I would like to highlight a couple of the services that exist. Talent Rooster, an online video resume portal connecting job seekers and companies. Today I interviewed the CEO of Talent Rooster, David DeCapua and discussed the who what where when and why of Talent Rooster.
The idea and development commenced almost 2 years ago and finally launched into existence on May 19, 2010. After 2.5 months, David mentioned that things are going well with over 1300 professional videos on their site. Talent Rooster began as an innovative answer to the question on how to better help job seekers increase their odds of getting hired and to assist the recruiting agencies to improve their odds of collecting agency fees. Let’s be honest, recruiters today are not seeing the same success as in decades past. Technology and social media has solved the mystery of the age old question, “how do you recruiters find your people?”
What David and his team decided at Talent Rooster:
- Video Resumes (at Talent Rooster termed, Digital Video Profiles) are awesome
- “The paper resume will be obsolete in 3 years” and his reasoning was that the millennials would never think about sending and email and attaching a word document to it. With all the social sites, texting and tweeting going on, attachments will be for the birds.
- At least a 30% increased odds in getting hired with a video resume
- According to the EEOC, the video resume IS NOT ILLEGAL!
- Free Service for Job Seekers IF the individual goes to the office of a recruiting agency to get their video recorded. If you do not go to a regional office, the easy to use technology can be accessed for a $39.95 one time fee and $19.95 to update your video. David feels that this fee will be an easy decision for job seekers.
- Free Service for Employers to search all video resumes. The companies do have to pay a placement fee for a candidate that they hire. Cost varies based on type of hire.
- Recruiters using Talent Rooster do have to pay a fee to use the service however get paid back over time when someone gets hired.
What is the biggest challenge that Talent Rooster faces? Market Education. Educating recruiters on the advantage of the service. Educating Job seekers on the increased odds of getting hired. Educating employers that the traditional resume is going away.
What is the goal of Talent Rooster? Ultimate goal would be for Talent Rooster to replace the traditional resume all together.
Positive Thoughts: the service is very professional. The resumes that are created are top-notch and consistent. That the way Talent Rooster is pitching it, and if you are in their geographical location, it is totally advantageous to use it. Out of the services that I have investigated, Talent Rooster appears to be the only service that has their act together.
Challenges: Geographically constrained if you want the free service. I still question the effect and number of employers that are going to Talent Rooster as a destination site to search resumes, especially if they have to pay to hire someone. I will say that CareerBuilder and Monster charge employers much more to simply post resumes with no promised results.
To see a quick infomercial on Talent Rooster, watch this video: http://www.talentrooster.com/infomercial.html
What do you think about this digital video profile service?
The Video Resume, Part 3
We have been involved in a series on the research behind the future of the video resume. It has actually gotten some nice traction with a request for a guest post on MashedReport and a nice link to Mason Wong and his post on why video resumes, in his opinion are inferior to the traditional resume. Mason’s thoughts are outlined below:
- I can’t skim the content in a non-linear manner.
- I can’t listen to a recorded voice as fast as I can read text.
- I can’t make an informed decision as fast.
- I can’t easily search for targeted video resumes.
- I can’t scribble on a video resume.
- I can’t easily hand a video resume to someone.
- I can’t easily store and organize video resumes in an internal database.
- I’m guessing your video resume probably wasn’t customized for me.
- I subconsciously judge the quality of a video resume against professionally produced television.
- Hiring managers have never asked me for video resumes.
- Employment lawyers strongly frown upon the practice.
- I don’t know of anyone who ever was invited to an interview or was ever hired because of a video resume.
- Traditional resumes already have a fundamental flaw. Video resumes exasperate this flaw.
- I am so discouraged by how bad the vast majority of video resumes are, I have no inclination whatsoever to watch yours.
Prayers for Peace
Dustin Grella released the below video, titled Prayers of Peace. The stop motion animated short was produced in 2008/2009 with the intent to pay tribute to a great human being who’s life was cut short during Operation Iraqi Freedom. Our brother, Devin J Grella, at the young age of 21 was killed by an improvised explosive device (IED) while delivering 40,000 gallons of top grade fuel just outside of Fallujah, Iraq.
Prayers for Peace from Dustin Grella
There is so much that I could say to attempt to pay homage to our little bro but I believe that Dusty’s movie hits the spot. There is something that you have to understand about this movie. Every frame was hand drawn on a piece of slate with chalk. Very same procedures of clay animation but with a chalk board. Frame by frame. Prayers for Peace took hours of work to produce mere seconds of film. Dusty’s work and effort has earned him many judges and peoples choice awards at film festivals across the globe. He decided to release it this week to the public because on July 20, Devin would’ve celebrated yet another birthday. —>Here<— is another birthday wish from a previous post of mine and also, what I consider a pretty good post on “What is Freedom?”
Thank you for viewing the video, Prayers for Peace, please share with you family and friends as we promised as Americans that WE WILL NEVER FORGET.
Darrin Grella, The Interview Guru
@darringrella
The Video Resume, Part 2
The other day we began a blog series on the video resume. Is it to be or not to be?
Just as a recap we determined that there is no question that video in general is the NOT the wave of the future…it is the present. Video is here and that point is inarguable. Sites like the giant youtube.com wouldn’t be leading the statistic charts in traffic.
While youtube’s strong traffic numbers and being ranked as one of the top search engines in the world it would only make sense that in a search on youtube for keyword “video resume” there are 4,590 results, one of the most viewed was 92,720 views (one of those views is me), as of the day of the research. Some are of great quality, some crappy but I think that’s ok. Some very serious, some very funny or spoofy but again without a standard we get to see the creative work of some of the leaders in the space.
According to a blog Here, There and Everywhere posted by Brian Hjelm — 2010 will be the year of video for the digital advertising industry.
With advancements in the smartphone market, new tablet PC form factors and other larger-screen mobile devices pushing consumption of online-based video, the increase in available content will be the core growth of digital video advertising inventory. Wherever consumer eyes wander, you can be sure that advertising will follow — and the rate at which consumers are consuming video on their PCs, their mobile devices and Internet-based TVs is growing rapidly.
According to the Nielsen third-quarter “Three Screen Report,” online video usage is on the rise, with Internet users watching 53 more minutes of video online in third quarter 2009, a 34.9% increase in viewing time from last year. In addition, the number of people watching mobile video has grown 53% year over year.
Make sure you drop a comment on what you think the future of the video resume holds.
Much continued success.
Darrin Grella, The Interview Guru
