A video resume is the new creative hype in the recruitment industry. It is estimated that 60% of employers hire through video resume in today’s date. And around 64% of recruiters are planning to hire even after COVID 19 restrictions are lifted.

So what’s the fuss about the video resume? The video resume is similar to a paper resume instead presenting through a 30 to 60 minute video. Here, a potential employee can showcase their personality, skill, and their creativity through a video to the employer. Without being lost in the same format of paper resume.

What to include in a video resume?

1.Self-introduction
First, start with the basics. Introduce yourself by your full name, your highest qualification. The skills that you acquired through the learning years. List all the updated technologies you gained. Then what’s your strength mention that as well. And why do you choose the company and the position? Give them a point answer why they need to hire you and perfect for the job. Make to a point do not go for longer explanation words. As the video resume would be for 30 seconds or 60 seconds.

2.Experience
Lay all the experience that you have gained through the internship. Mention the personal and group projects you have completed in college or in your internship. Lists main points that helped you to know the applied field better and thoroughly.

3.Employer requirements & expectations
Here is the chance to showcase your personality and your creativity. Every employer wants their employees to be multi-tasked, sensible responsive people. So try to give them an example about a situation where your presence of mind helped to overcome the situation. Again remember to make it to the point.

4.Updated personal information
Lastly, end with a positive line by adding your updated email address and your phone number.

*Note: Start the video resume with positive confidence and end with the same level of confidence.

A few lists of things to avoid while making a video resume:
• Clothes. Don’t just wear any causal or the worst night clothes while making a video resume. Dress professionally.
• Don’t wander on off-topic subjects that do not relate to the job profile.
• Little or no eye contact in the camera. Look straight to the camera as you are talking face-to-face to the recruiter.
• Poor production, avoid bad lighting, background noise, and shaky camera work.
• And lastly, no interruption in the video by checking no background people or pets or trash spotted in the video. It gives you negative points in professionalism in front of the hiring person.

**Advantages for an employee through a video resume.**

1.Showcase your personality
This is the best way to highlight your personality. A written resume does not convey the skills or creativeness you can showcase through visuals. It is a perfect opportunity to let your recruiters know how to value you are for the team.

2.Updated technology knowledge
A video resume is the best way to showcase your tech-savvy side. Simply by following the guidelines of your recruiters how long the video may contain. And by editing and producing a good quality video.

3.Communication skills
To succeed in any field a good communication skill is a must trait a person should hold. Here from beginning to end the candidate has a chance to grab the attention of the recruiter panel. Through effective communication, you can establish a strong impression of your recruiter. By displaying your command over language, gesture, posture your overall personality traits.

Advantages for recruiters through video resumes.

1.To eliminate genuine from the faker
A traditional written resume cannot determine a candidate whether/is being fully being honest in the resume regarding the skill and mindset. But through a video resume, a recruiter can easily spot the real candidate. For example, the recruiter can ask any specific question in the video resume to judge the person's knowledge whether it’s a copy-paste answer or their own answer.

2.Requirement
Every job posted has a set of requirements that the recruiter seeks. However, there are many applicants that do not fully fill the job conditions eventually they apply too. To sort out these applicants from the correct candidates the employer has to look through the big pile of paper resumes. Through, a video resume eliminates this problem easily. As every video resume highlights their skill and qualification and experience.

3.Ordered and organized
It’s a headache to organize paper resumes and sort them in an order to make them easy to find for you. Then maintain a list to be selected, rejected, interview process, and many more. Instead of such hassle of handling paper, it is easy to download a candidate’s video on your computer through date and position and store them in particular folder names. It allows HR to save time and space.

As the digital world upgrades, we need to match the steps by upgrading ourselves by evolving from paper resumes to video resumes.