Putting their best face forward, an increasing number of job candidates are applying for jobs by e-mailing prospective employers a video resume.
It’s a trend that is gaining in popularity. A year ago, YouTube counted about 1,700 resumes; it now counts nearly 29,000.
A Rocky Hill startup wants to jump on the video resume bandwagon and help job candidates set themselves apart from their competition.
Motion Resume, a division of the New Day Group, opened its doors last month with the hopes that the traditional cover letter will go the way of VHS tapes and record albums.
One of the company’s founders, Albert Petrunti, said Motion Resume was spun off from New Day, a media production company with offices in Winsted, Torrington and Rocky Hill.
“We had been thinking about it for a while, spent several months conducting market research, and we developed the company after that,” Petrunti said. “It’s a very customized product, depending on what a person needs.”
The process is fairly straight forward, Petrunti said. The job seeker follows a scripted format to answer questions potential employers might ask while also highlighting the candidate’s strengths.
Essentially, the video resume is meant to replace the cover letter.
“It’s a way for someone to get noticed and to stand out,” Petrunti said.
Photo by Motion Resume.
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September 4, 2008 by Rich | 1 Comment
In Jobs, Startup, Video
cassy on September 10th, 2008 at 4:54 am
This is actually great idea but I hope the companies won’t required video resume in the future as what if some applicants are shy type. But more or less I like this idea its fun and the employer/interviewer not stuck and get bored reading the resume instead having fun watching the video resume :)