Our Client Success Manager Yuri recently got to celebrate the end of his probation period at Cammio. To celebrate this occasion, he looks back on his job search during lockdown and his first experience with a video powered recruitment process. Yuris Experience: After graduating from university and already working part-time for 3.5 years, I decided to search for a full-time job. I was living in Nijmegen and was open to work anywhere. Through my part-time job I had already gained experience in CRM and recruitment. I knew the job search would be more difficult and different compared to previous y ..read more

How exactly should a job interview be structured. In the field of recruiting, there is hardly a more fundamental question. And for good reason! After all, the interview decides how a candidate is evaluated and whether or not he or she is a candidate for the position applied for? Scientists have agreed for years that in practice people usually go by their gut feeling. This is an essential decision in the candidate’s life. That’s why we’re taking a closer look at the whole thing and gathering all the facts. Advantages and disadvantages of a structured interview: According to a 2016 study in the ..read more

This year, the Most Influential Recruiter election was held for the twelfth time in a row. During this annual election, nominated recruiters compete for the coveted honour of becoming the most influential recruiter of the year. The winners recently received their award from organiser Bas Westland during a special coronaproof surprise visit. As a proud sponsor Cammio supports the competition with its video recruitment platform to allow the jury to select the winners with the help of a structured video interview. Since the winners did not get a chance to shine during a big award gala this year ..read more

At Cammio we’re all about showing your true personality through authentic communication, so I’ll cut right to the chase here: Unwinding from a busy day at my home office desk is often combined with some plain sailing reality TV for me. One of my recent favourites is the Netflix show: the Circle. You could probably best describe this show as a social experiment that isolates a group of players, each in their own brightly coloured apartment, in the same building. The players do not leave their apartment during the game and never get to meet each other face-to-face. Instead, they only interact wi ..read more

Die Universitäten Amsterdam und Utrecht in den Niederlanden haben kürzlich die Ergebnisse ihrer Feldstudie zur Diskriminierung von Bewerbern mit Minderheitenhintergrund veröffentlicht. Die Forscher verschickten über 4.000 Bewerbungen (Anschreiben und Lebenslauf) von fiktiven Bewerbern im Alter zwischen 23 und 25 Jahren als Reaktion auf tatsächliche offene Stellen. Die fiktiven Bewerber mit niederländischem Hintergrund hatten im Vergleich zu den fiktiven Bewerbern mit Migrationshintergrund eine um 40 Prozent höhere Wahrscheinlichkeit, zu einem Vorstellungsgespräch eingeladen zu werden. Es stell ..read more

Improving the candidate experience is an evergreen dominating the yearly priority lists of things recruiters, recruitment marketeers and employer branding specialists aim to achieve. In the new normal recruitment processes preferably take place remotely, which increases the need for video-based communications. Yet how do you make sure, that you can still convince and positively surprise your candidates and create a winning candidate experience, even remote. Here are a few dos & don’ts to keep in mind! 1. Abundant information is key. ‘How do the candidates generally react to video interview ..read more

Starting a new job is exciting, stressful and often completely different from what you had planned. All beginnings are difficult, especially when changing jobs. You leave the familiar surroundings of your old job, ask yourself until the last day whether it was the right decision to leave your safe and permanent terrain and start somewhere completely new – including a probationary period. These are all questions that can cause nervousness. However, if you think about it in all honesty, there is no reasonable reason to be afraid of a new job. There are certainly good reasons why you were hired a ..read more

Starting a new job is exciting, stressful and often completely different from what you had planned. All beginnings are difficult, especially when changing jobs. You leave the familiar surroundings of your old job, ask yourself until the last day whether it was the right decision to leave your safe and permanent terrain and start somewhere completely new – including a probationary period. These are all questions that can cause nervousness. However, if you think about it in all honesty, there is no reasonable reason to be afraid of a new job. There are certainly good reasons why you were hired a ..read more

Employees are the most valuable asset of your organisation. It is therefore very important to find new employees that fit your team and expectations. As you know, this can be quite difficult. In most companies, recruiting new employees is carried out by one single person or a recruitment team. That seems pretty straightforward, but have you ever thought about including future teammates in your recruitment process? Imagine people with a wide range of functions doing (video)interviews with potential future teammates, reviewing candidates and providing their feedback on applicants. This sounds go ..read more

When it comes to hiring new employees, recruiters in the retail industry are facing a series of unique challenges. Most notably they are faced with incredibly high staff turnover, an above-average volume of applicants and the need to select on a skillset more focused on personality than experience. This makes a fast, effective and accurate screening process a necessity for retailers. Retail jobs require a specific set of skills, – e.g. pleasant personality, enthusiasm, strong communication skills, sales acumen etc. – which are impossible to evaluate by examining the written applications that c ..read more