For this post, I revisited one of the webpages that I’ve posted about recently.

Perhaps even five years ago, this would have been dubbed impossible.

From my own experience, many companies that I have applied to are relying on mobile interviews to replace face-to-face interviews. This is something that has been catching on in many HR departments, especially those in Hong Kong. In what is now known as a one-way interview, interviewers post their questions online and candidates like myself would record ourselves on video answering the questions before posting them onto a file server created by the company’s HR department. Candidates usually have three to five working days to complete this interview.

Personally, this has benefited me by saving me time and money by not having to fly back to Hong Kong for face-to-face interviews. It has also given me a greater amount of flexibility to conduct the one-way interview. Now, I can record myself at my own time and space, without having to fly back home to meet the interviewer face to face. I can also take as much time as I want to calm myself and submit my best response.

This is only made possible by new technology that can transmit larger packets of multimedia files over the Internet. With almost everybody carrying a phone equipped with a camera, it makes it all the more convenient for interviewers to conduct such interviews via such arrangements.

Adopted from:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/josh-tolan/4-ways-technology-is-chan_b_2736375.html