spent three hours looking at candidate videos - hired no one

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It’s funny lately how there is so much chatter about video and resumes and employment and how it all can fit together. I have some very strong ideas about this and remember back in 97 and 99 when I bought the domain names VideoJobs.com and JobTV.com being very excited. What is interesting now is that in the last 2 months or so, I have started getting many offers for both of these.
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Who knows what will be but what is interesting is that about 3 months ago, I put the domain name jobtv.com on ebay starting at 18k (would not have sold it for that but it was a starting point) I intentionally did not promote this auction anywhere because I wanted to see who was watching and who would be smart enough bid on it. There were no bids and no action. I would have bought it for 18k and would have considered it a deal but I can’t buy what I already have so….

I now see Jobster talking about video and I see that Monster is really thinking hard about it and many upon many companies out there trying to get in on it. I don’t think that allowing candidates to create videos of themselves will help much but I do think that it gives hiring managers an interesting addition to their own current recruiting options.  
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4 r/ j, r6 t: `- _6 Z9 J+ [I wonder who this year willl take this all to the next level. To the best of my knowledge, HireVue seems to be doing well. So much so that TheLadders even made a deal with the girl  on HireVue's website to appear on their own website