As seen on screen

We look for work online, and, as HR specialists, you probably recruit online, too (if you don’t you’re really, really, really doing it wrong).

These days, with competition for roles tougher than ever, video CVs (or visumés, if you insist), are growing in popularity. While HR departments are busy making sure employer brands are unique (you’re doing that, too, right?), employees are also branding themselves as great employees-to-be.

The internet and the fact that nigh on everything has a camera attached to it these days make visumés cheap and easy to create. It’s a great way to see potential employees before you interview them, so you can get a measure of their personality as well as their skills and experience.

Great visumés are:

• Short. (Who wants full biopic as a job application?)
• Interesting to watch.
• Full of reasons to employ the applicant.

Here’s our pick of the crop.

Samantha Little

Samantha conveys her personality and her employability in a really positive and creative way.

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Sajita Nair

Here’s a good example of someone with more experience seeking work.
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Graeme Antony

This interactive CV is a great way to do it if you have a limited budget and a room with an echo.
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George Turnbull.

Nice beard. Employ the beard.

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And finally, our favourite:

Barney Stinson – Video CV

This is awesome, even if he is a fictional character from How I Met Your Mother, played by Neil Patrick Harris. It’s hard not to like the cut of his jib.

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About the author

Kirsty Willis

Kirsty plays the ukulele and climbs hills. Sometimes at the same time. If she types enough words, eventually recruitment and HR comms appear. Kirsty once kissed one of The Pogues. He tasted of whisky and cigarettes.