A brand new survey by Bayt.com, the Middle East’s #1 job website, is highlighting how MENA organisations are incorporating new digital expertise to interview candidates as a consequence of the COVID-19 pandemic. The ‘Video Job Interviews in the MENA Poll’ revealed that in the previous yr 84% of respondents noticed a rise in video job interviews and 58% have participated in them.
The present coronavirus disaster has pushed companies to implement extra large-scale digital recruiting and interviewing efforts. Virtual interviews that final for lower than half-hour on common based on 55% of these surveyed had been deemed a constructive expertise by 60% of respondents. The major benefits of video interviews had been that they’re extra snug and handy (50%), allow candidates to use for distant jobs (7%), save on transportation prices (4%), cut back time to rent candidates (3%) and all of the aforementioned advantages (37%).
The digital interview development has additionally seen firms efficiently make the most of new expertise to create a constructive candidate expertise and onboard workers – 68% of respondents say that their firm use a video interviewing software program/ platform. In truth, digital interviewing could turn into the new customary for recruiting lengthy after social distancing tips are lifted. The survey discovered that 89% of respondents count on a rise in video job interviews over the subsequent few months.
Ola Haddad, Director of Human Resources at Bayt.com mentioned: “The hiring course of for each job seekers and recruiters alike has reworked inside the previous yr. It is essential that employers have seamless hiring experiences that enable them to search out expertise in the proper place, and at the proper time. Our findings reveal that digital hiring can play a key function in making a high quality rent rapidly while making the interview course of simpler and extra handy for a lot of job seekers.”
The survey reveals that job seekers champion digital interviews via considerate preparation. Key steps embrace conducting a tech-check (digital camera, microphone, laptop computer charging, and so forth.) (49%), selecting a quiet and clear place (3%), logging in 10 minutes earlier than the scheduled time (2%), dressing professionally (2%), and all of the aforementioned (45%).
The most profitable video interviews present candidates with the identical degree of data and feeling of reference to the group as they’d have with an in-person interview or onboarding expertise. Respondents say that the mostly requested query in video job interviews embrace verification questions (i.e. GPA and examine main) (56%), competency questions (testing sure abilities) (18%), behavioural questions (11%), and opinion and persona questions (i.e. management model) (9%).
On the different hand, 54% of survey respondents choose face-to-face interviews. The candidates really feel that video interviews have drawbacks as they restrict showcasing candidates’ full potential (69%), may face technical difficulties (5%), lack human interplay (5%), difficulties of getting ready a appropriate bodily setting (lighting, digital camera, background, and so forth.) (3%) and all of the aforementioned (17%).
Data for the Video Job Interviews in the MENA Poll 2021 was collected on-line from August 3 to October 5, 2021. Results are primarily based on a pattern of 5,495 respondents from the following nations: UAE, KSA, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, Egypt, Yemen, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Libya, Sudan, amongst others.
