- Solutions
- Products
- Community
- Resources
- Company
Call Sales +44 808 164 2563
Create incredible candidate experiences that communicate your brand, mission, and values with recruitment marketing solutions.
Learn moreCommunicate effectively and efficiently with the candidates that can drive your business forward.
Learn moreSelect the right candidates to drive your business forward and simplify how you build winning, diverse teams.
Learn moreHelp your best internal talent connect to better opportunities and see new potential across your entire organisation.
Learn moreCommunicate collectively with large groups of candidates and effectively tackle surges in hiring capacity.
Learn moreAccess tools that help your team create a more inclusive culture and propel your DEI program forward.
Learn moreRebound and respond to the new normal of retail with hiring systems that are agile enough to help you forge ahead.
Learn moreAccelerate the hiring of key talent to deliver point of care and support services that meet and exceed your promise of patient satisfaction.
Learn moreAttract and engage candidates with technical competencies, accelerate hiring for much-needed skills, and advance expertise within your valued workforce.
Learn moreSimplify how you recruit finance, insurance, and banking candidates with a unified platform built to match top talent with hard-to-fill roles.
Learn moreYour business strategy depends on your people strategy. Keep both in lockstep with the iCIMS Talent Cloud.
Learn moreBuild an engaging, high-converting talent pipeline that moves your business forward.
Learn moreDeliver the innovation your talent team needs, along with the global scale and security you demand.
Learn moreDeliver tailored technology experiences that delight users and power your talent transformation with the iCIMS Talent Cloud.
Learn moreThe #1 ATS in market share, our cloud-based recruiting software is built for both commercial and large, global employers.
Learn more Talk to salesAttract the best talent for your business with powerful, on-brand career websites that excite candidates and drive engagement.
Learn more Talk to salesCombine behavior-based marketing automation with AI insights to build talent pipelines, engage candidates with multi-channel marketing campaigns, and automatically surface the right talent for the job.
Learn more Talk to salesEmpower candidates with automated self-service, qualification screening, and interview scheduling through an AI-enabled digital assistant.
Learn more Talk to salesSimplify employee onboarding with automated processes that maximize engagement and accelerate productivity.
Learn more Talk to salesModernize, streamline, and accelerate your communication with candidates and employees.
Learn more Talk to salesTransform the talent experience by showcasing your authentic employer brand through employee-generated video testimonials.
Learn more Talk to salesSimplify recruiting, dynamically engage talent, and reduce hiring bias with job matching and recruiting chatbot technology.
Learn moreStreamline and centralize your HR tech stack with configurable, flexible, secure and reliable integrations.
Learn moreHow PRMG attracts 50% more applicants for niche finance roles with the iCIMS Talent Cloud.
Learn moreThousands strong, our global community of talent professionals includes creatives, innovators, visionaries, and experts.
Learn moreTogether we’re creating the world’s largest ecosystem of integrated recruiting technologies.
Learn morePartner with our global professional services team to develop a winning strategy, build your team and manage change.
Learn moreExplore our network of more than 300 certified, trusted third-party service and advisory partners.
Learn moreExpert guidance about recruitment solutions, changes in the industry, and the future of talent.
Learn moreExpert guidance about recruitment solutions, changes in the industry, and the future of talent.
Learn moreStay up to date with the latest terminology and verbiage in the HR software ecosystem.
Learn morePartner with iCIMS to build the right strategies, processes, and experience to build a winning workforce.
Learn moreDeliver the innovation your talent team needs, along with the global scale and security you demand.
Learn moreWatch the recording of our latest webinar looking at key findings from a recent study and explore short-term and long-term solutions for the talent crisis in 2022 and beyond.
Watch on-demandView press releases, media coverage, and the latest hiring data. See what analysts are saying about iCIMS.
Learn moreiCIMS is the Talent Cloud company that empowers organizations to attract, engage, hire, and advance the talent that builds a winning workforce.
Learn moreGet to know the award-winning leadership team shaping the future of the recruiting software industry.
Learn moreWe believe the future of work isn't something that "happens" to you. It's something you create. We actively create the future of work with our customers every day.
Learn moreStreamline your tech stack and take advantage of a better user experience and stronger data governance with ADP and the iCIMS Talent Cloud.
Learn moreThe combined power of iCIMS and Infor helps organizations strategically align their business and talent objectives.
Learn moreOur award-winning partnership with Microsoft is grounded in a shared desire to transform the workplace and the hiring team experience.
Learn moreOur partnership with Ultimate Kronos Group (UKG) supports the entire talent lifecycle by bringing frictionless recruiting solutions to UKG Pro Onboarding.
Learn moreLet’s get in touch. Reach out to learn more about iCIMS products and services.
Learn more
February 16, 2021 
4 min read
Key takeaways:
Video interviews were still relatively new when the COVID-19 pandemic forced organizations worldwide to start working – and recruiting – from home.
But how do candidates feel about this new technology? Do they like video interviewing? So we asked. More than 400,000 responses later, and it turns out candidates really, really like video interviewing. We’re talking 92%.
You’re not likely to get that level of agreement if you ask people what color the sky is. So we dug deeper to find out why.
Jump ahead if you’re in a hurry – for everyone else, let’s first take a quick look at how we got here.
There are two main types of video interviews: live and on-demand. Live video interviews are the traditional screen-to-screen interactions that happen later in the hiring process. On-demand video interviews are prerecorded and occur earlier in the process, giving candidates time to sell themselves and hiring teams a chance to decide whether they want to commit to a live interview.
Before 2020, most video interviews were live and took place over video conference software like Zoom or Skype. Many still do, but it’s no longer necessary.
First, there’s the issue of technology. Platforms like Zoom, Skype, and Google Meet all have reputations for reliability, as do many others. The problem isn’t the software. It’s spotty Internet connections and laptops that haven’t been updated in a long, long time.
Add in working from home, and you’re liable to meet with a menagerie of cats, dogs, spouses, children, roommates, and other unexpected interruptions. Don’t forget to sprinkle in poor lighting and ambient noises for good measure.
Suffice to say that live video interviews can and do work… just not always. They’re an important part of the hiring equation, particularly as the field of candidates narrows.
For earlier in the hiring process, consider on-demand video interviews. As the name suggests, the primary difference is an on-demand interview is recorded. This gives candidates more flexibility, as we’ll see in a moment.
Finally, we should note our survey addressed on-demand interviews. That said, many of the lessons here can be applied to live video interviews as well.
Ready to learn more about video interviewing? Check out our infographic by clicking below.
