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Great article in the WSJ yesterday outlining the desire that hiring organizations have around identifying candidates better. At the least, in a way better than a resume would provide. read more here: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203750404577173031991814896.html Read Full Story

A lot of you have asked for a way to include text-only questions, and now you can! We’re now letting you mix text and video questions into one interview questionnaire. The default is still video, so you just have to specify which questions should only allow text answers. See screenshots below. First, expand the Options link under each question and check the box to make the question only accept text answers. When the candidate reaches this question, they will only see a text box – no... Read Full Story

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We often hear our customers ask “What if my candidates don’t have a webcam”? Our standard reply used to be that since Active Interview is a video based interviewing tool, they must have a webcam to participate. Not anymore. We’re happy to introduce a feature that many customers have asked for: automated phone interviews. Now, if a candidate doesn’t have a web-cam or are experiencing problems configuring their machine, they have the option of continuing with a phone-based interview (a text... Read Full Story

Marco Arment, founder of Instapaper , recently wrote about the backup method he uses for that service . First of all, props to Marco for writing that post.  It’s a selfless act to blog about your technical processes and methods, and especially when it opens you up to “armchair hacker” criticism.  Sharing of these kinds of different methods is really valuable to us DIY-ers / lean start-up guys and gals.  It’s in that context, and in the context of horror stories like Mag.no.lia (total data... Read Full Story

Active Interview and one of our customer, OLPC, are featured in today’s edition of The Globe and Mail . Read the full article here: The video job interview: When your face precedes the face-to-face. “ The virtual interview was the only way Bryan Stuart could keep his non-profit organization’s budget in check when he hired 35 people for One Laptop Per Child’s internship program. It also was much easier to get candidates to submit recorded videos, which he could review at his home office... Read Full Story

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Even back then, they could have used Active Interview. “It’s going to be a long day guys.” Read Full Story

Hot off the internet press is the newest Amazon Web Services (AWS) case study… and it’s Active Interview! We’re big fans of Amazon’s amazing cloud services. And like some other exceptional webapps , we use them for much of the underlying infrastructure that powers Active Interview. In our case, AWS is the building block of our video capture, storage and serving features. We were more than happy to participate in a case study for them and are really happy with the final writeup: Read the... Read Full Story

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