Just when you thought you'd spend the rest of your life viewing unstructured video resumes, a new company comes out with an application that helps put some much needed structure around them. Podzinger extracts likely keywords from video resumes, sets them up as links and allows you to jump to the exact place in that video - essentially allowing you to search video resumes (or any other video you like).
I tried out the service, and it seems like it's at too early of a stage to be highly useful for recruiting purposes. In a Fast Company article, they claimed 70% accuracy and are working towards 90% accuracy, even with the ability to decipher accents. Wouldn't it be great if one day they could pull the keywords out of a video resume posted on YouTube or other site and actually use the content to build a virtual resume of sorts? That sounds impossible, but it's not and could be done with a little imagination and a combination of some existing technologies.
If anyone else has any luck finding people through the service (although there are a very limited # of video resumes out there at this point), please let me know. For now, something to keep your eyes on and hope that they realize that recruiters could be a viable target audience for them. If video resumes ever do hit a critical mass, there might be a business model there.
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