Uploading a recruitment video is not always plain sailing
I’ve been trying to upload videos direct to the blog for a couple of days now without much luck. In fact I think I’m going to admit defeat for now - work to do and all that. I have just discovered a quick fix though. It’s a cheat but you can simply upload the video onto Youtube or Dailymotion etc and then embed a link into the blog - as I’ve done here.
The reason for all this is that I want to show off some of the recruitment videos we’ve produced recently. So, now I have my quick fix here’s one of the recruitment videos we shot for inclusion on the recently launched careers website for The Yachts of Seabourn.
I’m sure we’ll be talking more about the importance of video for recruitment purposes in the coming months but one thing to point out about the videos on www.seabourncareers.com is that after the careers themselves the videos are the most viewed area of the website (Google analytics in action). Who wants to read a mission statement when you can watch and listen to Irini or Andre and learn exactly what working life is like on board Seabourn Pride?
David
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Yes using a social media site like youtube or metacafe. I also suggest a social media distribution strategy to get candidates to http://www.seabourncareers.com. Video, combined with social media, is a game-changer for recruiting.
i.e. Schlumberger had video, but a search for “field engineer” on search engines and video sites produced NO Schlumberger video results. They wanted to do more with social media and use the video outside of our site. They used the Career Corner Video Network to distribute the videos to about 40 partner sites, including Veoh.com, VirtualJobShadow.com, Youtube.com, MetaCafe.com and others. Now the field engineer videos are a top search result and people are embedding the video on blogs, job boards, and sharing on social networking sites, especially amongst the field engineering community. Schlumberger’s vidoes are are approaching 100k views, with nice click through rate to the website.
Here’s some links:
• http://www.slb.com/content/careers/develop/career_profiles.asp (Schlumberger Career Fields and Their People)
• http://www.blinkx.com/videos/field+engineer (video search engine, results from many different sites)
• http://tinyurl.com/kvfx96 (YouTube search)
• http://tinyurl.com/ns9ldj (Metacafe search)
• http://tinyurl.com/m9h95d (Google search)
• http://tinyurl.com/l3xcfo (Bing Search)
Best…Ernest
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Ernest Feiteira
Career Corner Digital - “Where Video, Social Media, and Recruitment meet”
P: 800-948-7516 ext. 13
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