Join Us For a Webinar presented by Aberdeen Group on January 12th – 10:00 AM PST, 1:00 PM EST and Find Out.

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If you’ve ever wondered what video interviewing could do for you, wonder no more. Aberdeen Group is known industry wide for helping companies make sense of Human Capital technologies. Video interviewing has received a lot of attention lately so naturally Aberdeen Group put their best analysts on it. You might be surprised by what they found.

HireVue is proud to present :

Date:        Tuesday, January 12, 2010
Time:        10:00 AM – 11:00 AM PST, 1:00 – 2:00 PM EST

“‘Enabled’ is the operative word,” writes Lombardi and Park, “It is not enough to simply use video technology to conduct an interview. Solutions that allow interviews to be indexed, tagged with manager feedback and integrated with tools like an Applicant Tracking System (ATS) or candidate relationship management solution, will have the greatest correlation to top recruiting results.”

REGISTER NOW to learn how HireVue fits Aberdeen’s description of the perfect Video-Enabled Talent Acquisition solution. During the webinar Lombardi and Park will explain how the right video interviewing strategy can:

• Reduce recruitment costs & travel
• Decrease the length of your talent searches
• Ensure candidate fit and quality
• Increase first year retention
• Bring your employment brand to life

Space is limited.
Reserve your Webinar seat today at:
https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/492445171

REGISTER TODAY and receive the BRAND NEW Aberdeen Analyst Insight Report, Video Enabled Talent Acquisition: Improving Cost, Quality and Satisfaction, compliments of HireVue. In this report you’ll have access to detailed research outlining the benefits and ROI potential of the right video-enabled talent acquisition strategy.

Although the webinar date is past, you can download the Aberdeen Group’s Video Enabled Talent Acquisition Research here.

Funding will accelerate international growth and product innovation

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – (Business Wire) September 28, 2009 – HireVue, the leading provider of video interviewing solutions, announced today that it has secured a Series A round of funding led by Peterson Ventures. Peterson Ventures is joined by The Garber Fund of Penn State University and a number of strategic investors to help fund HireVue’s continuing growth.

In the past 12 months, HireVue has experienced greater than 500% growth in interviews and expanded their customer base to include a number of the Fortune 500 including Dish Network, CDW, and Murphy Oil. HireVue also recently announced a key strategic partnership that makes their video interviewing solutions available to thousands of employers through talent management software giant Taleo. HireVue was also named HR Product of the Year for 2009 by Human Resource Executive ® magazine just two weeks ago.

“This is a great time to invest in HireVue,” said Brandon Cope of Peterson Ventures. “It’s exciting to partner with a company in this stage of explosive growth. They provide an offering that is quite compelling for employers given the advancement in technology, the globalization of business, and the downturn of the economy.  We believe HireVue will create value for the world’s leading organizations by helping them acquire their most important asset—their people—in the shortest amount of time and at the lowest cost.”

Employers use HireVue to screen candidates with Virtual Video Interviews where the employer defines a set of questions that are answered by the candidate over the Internet via webcam. Clients also use HireVue’s Live Video Interviews to interview candidates via online videoconference. Both types of interviews are recorded and stored in HireVue’s proprietary and secure system for review. Interviews can be taken from any location with an Internet connection and many employers set up on-site video kiosks for high volume hiring. Webcams and technical support are included with every video interview. The HireVue solution can be used directly from www.hirevue.com or through the newly announced integration with Taleo Enterprise.

HireVue will use the new funds to add to its world-class management team, strengthen market awareness, and make product enhancements that will greatly increase the value of the HireVue system to the market.

“We are fortunate to have Peterson Ventures and the Garber Fund as partners,” says HireVue CEO Mark Newman. “All of our investment partners offer much more than capital. In the few short months of partnership, their entrepreneurial know-how, expertise in the human capital space, and experience in building great companies, has already proven crucial to our recent growth and will continue be a catalyst to our future growth.”

About Peterson Ventures

Based in Salt Lake City, UT, Peterson Ventures is an investment firm that seeks to partner with outstanding entrepreneurs and founders of great companies.  Founded by JetBlue Chairman and current faculty member at Stanford’s Graduate school of Business Joel Peterson, Peterson Ventures make investments across all stages of a company’s growth.  Specifically, they invest in search funds, seed- and early-stage companies, and small, later-stage companies that have revenues less than $10 million and positive EBITDA.  They have invested in some of the world’s leading companies like Asurion and JetBlue.  www.petersonventures.com

About The Garber Fund

The Garber Fund was established in 1999 with a $5 million commitment from Penn State alumnus John Garber and his wife Bette to bring reality to the teaching of entrepreneurship and venture capital. The fund is part of the Nittany Lion Venture Capital Association (NLVC), an MBA student-run management group that works with small companies and other investment groups in early stage business planning, execution, and due-diligence assignments. NLVC forms part of Smeal’s highly acclaimed entrepreneurship program, in which students are immersed in real-life situations throughout their studies.

About HireVue

Founded in 2004, HireVue is the world’s leading online video-interviewing solution that brings talent into focus right from the start – cutting down on the time and money it takes to make important hiring decisions.  Today, HireVue is used in over 90 countries around the globe. HireVue’s full service video interviews eliminate travel costs, reduce recruitment time and provide greater candidate insight earlier in the hiring process than ever before. HireVue is used by the world’s most innovative leaders in talent acquisition like the African Development Bank, Google, Dish Network, Rio Tinto, ITT and many others. Led by a veteran team of Human Capital Management experts, HireVue combines superior service with superior solutions to power any video used in the hiring process anywhere in the world.

For more information please visit: www.hirevue.com. For up to the minute news about HireVue, follow HireVue on Twitter here.

Press Contact: Chris Higbee

801.415.9485 | chigbee@hirevue.com

Human Resource Executive ® Magazine Names HireVue’s Newest Offering 2009 HR Product of the Year

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah – (Business Wire) September 21, 2009 – HireVue, the leading provider of video interviewing solutions, today announced that HireVue 3.0, a video interview management solution, has been named one of the 2009 Top HR Products of the Year by Human Resource Executive ® magazine. Selected from a record number of entries, HireVue was chosen after thorough evaluation by the Human Resource Executive ® editorial staff.

“This is a tremendous honor,” said Mark Newman, CEO and co-founder of HireVue. “HireVue 3.0 is designed to help employers re-think the entire hiring cycle and save time and money while making a better quality hire. This new offering was designed in close collaboration with our customers to give their hiring teams greater flexibility and power to drive results. We’re very proud to accept this award.”

Employers use HireVue to screen candidates with Virtual Video Interviews where the employer defines a set of questions that are answered by the candidate over the Internet via webcam. Clients also use HireVue’s Live Video Interviews to interview candidates via online videoconference. Both types of interviews are recorded and stored in HireVue’s proprietary and secure system for review. Interviews can be taken from any location with an Internet connection and many employers set up on-site video kiosks for high volume hiring. Webcams and technical support are included with every video interview. The HireVue solution can be used directly from www.hirevue.com or through the newly announced integration with Taleo Enterprise.

“Human Resource Executive has been evaluating HR products and conducting this competition for more than 20 years. Our goal has always been to identify products and services that clearly offer value to the HR community while demonstrating innovation, and HireVue does just that,” explained David Shadovitz, editor-in-chief of Human Resource Executive ®. “It takes the hiring process to the next level and greatly simplifies interview management, communication and collaboration while reducing time-to-hire and costs. We’re pleased to honor HireVue as a Top HR Product of the Year for its innovation and the resulting value it provides to today’s human resources professionals.”

HireVue will be presented with the 2009 Top HR Product Award at a special luncheon held on September 30, at the HR Technology Conference in Chicago. HireVue will also be demonstrating its video interviewing platform at the conference, September 30 – October 1 at McCormick Place in Chicago. To schedule a meeting or private demonstration please contact Chris Higbee at 801.415.9485 or e-mail chigbee@hirevue.com. 

About HireVue

Founded in 2004, HireVue is the world’s leading online video-interviewing solution that brings talent in to focus right from the start – cutting down on the time and money it takes to make important hiring decisions.  Today, HireVue is used in over 90 countries around the globe. HireVue’s full service video interviews eliminate travel costs, reduce recruitment time and provide greater candidate insight earlier in the hiring process than ever before. HireVue is used by the world’s most innovative leaders in talent acquisition like the African Development Bank, Google, Dish Network, Rio Tinto, ITT and many others. Led by a veteran team of Human Capital Management experts, HireVue combines superior service with superior solutions to power any video used in the hiring process anywhere in the world.

For more information please visit: www.hirevue.com. For up to the minute news about HireVue, follow HireVue on Twitter here.

HireVue is also now a Taleo Partner and is pre-integrated with Taleo so it’s very easy to activate and this morning we announced that HireVue is available through Taleo’s brand new Solution Exchange – so it’s now super easy for Taleo customers to review the solution before they decide to activate it. We’re the only video interviewing provider available through Taleo Solution Exchange.

I’ve been spearheading this integration pretty much since I joined the company. Taleo has been awesome to work with and I think all the hard work will pay off for our customers. It’s a phenomenal solution and will be enormously valuable to Taleo customers. One of the best things about designing software is when you have the chance to step back from your work and take a look at it from a different perspective to find that it “just works” really well. For those of you who aren’t aware of Solution Exchange, you need to check it out. This is the future of integrated SaaS HR software delivery.

Taleo Talent Grid & Solution Exchange -http://www.taleo.com/LP/The-Talent-Grid/

PRESS RELEASE – HireVue Plugs into Taleo Talent Grid

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Contact us if you are interested in partnering with HireVue. As always, feel free to e-mail me with any questions or thoughts.

Chris

chigbee@hirevue.com

You have been with us since before Facebook and even MySpace I believe. You are on www.linkedin.com and are a trusted source for professional friends to reconnect and for people to network with new colleagues. Your tabs are simple and straightforward. Your layout is plain and clean. You can go to the site and find exactly what you are looking for, just like you have been for years. I heard the news on Techcrunch and immediately proceeded to see if what was said is true.

So why are you trying to keep up with the kids? Is it a mid-life crisis Linkedin? Since you are a website and cannot buy a new corvette (I’m sure Mr. Hoffman could spring for a new top of line blade server though) do you have to change your look and feel so that there is no differentiation between you and Facebook? Is it the flip flops you want? The Google programmers? What?

I don’t come to you looking for games and drunken party photos. I come to you for professionalism and opportunities to grow my reputation. You have helped me build HireVue and our video interview system immensely over the years through referrals and leads and I hate to see you let yourself go like this. Mid-life crises are not good – they generally do not turn out well as we all know. What can we do to bring you back?

Please let us know LinkedIn. You are a true friend and always there for us when we need you. Now we want to be there for you.

Sincerely

Mark Newman and the HireVue team

Today we are in the New York Post! Thanks Virginia!

Here is a link to the article

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04022007/atwork/youhired_atwork_virginia_backaitis.htm
Also, a special thanks to:

Summer Dawson – EG&G, Layton Companies
Shawn Upchurch – UpSearch – You should use them if you are in the Northeast
Devin “David” Thorpe – Thorpe Capital
Raymond Swegger – Newest Member of Thorpe Capital
You guys are all awesome!

To quote from the article – “While still in the nascent stage, video interviews are growing in popularity. HireVue.com, a market leader, has seen business skyrocket in recent months, and employer inquiries are snowballing,“…..”Clients such as Thorpe are already sold. This year, he selected his interns using video alone. “In 10 years, most hires will include a video interview stage,” he predicts.“

Since moving on from Jobster it looks like he is doing some consulting and I would have to say that there aren’t many better people out there to help you figure out your HR/Recruiting needs.

Here is a link to the article

–Mark

We ourselves have been trying to figure out the best way to summarize the difference between “us” and “them” (i.e. video resumes) and Raghav hits it right on the head when me talks about structured vs. unstructured.

Click to see the article

Mark

A number of great companies were covered in the article, notably HIREVUE, Vault.com, YouTube, Jobster, 62ndview (get it, it took me a while – funny huh, from RecuitTV) and ResumeVideo. Supposedly they are all broadly launching this Spring!
Here’s the article – “It’s a Wrap. You’re Hired!”

Jason Goldberg blogged about it too.

The article was great (of course we would love to see a feature about how we are trying to take over the video interviewing world and have been doing it for a couple of years) and we look forward to more articles about the space, especially about video interviews.

One thing though that Lisa found and wrote about in her blog which we know already about video resumes:

As research for this article I just wrote on the rise of the video résumé, I set out to create my own. When I started reporting, I had assumed there must be a whole cottage industry of videographers, makeup artists and editors making hey of this surging new trend. Sure enough, when I Googled it, I came up with dozens of companies offering their services.

But when I started calling, I found most were out of business.

One videographer who advertised video résumé-making services on his website picked up the phone. Eric Wolfram started to laugh as soon as I explained my mission. He put his website up in 2004, he says. Since then, he’s had exactly no calls–that is, except for the five in the past few months, all from journalists wanting to do stories on video résumés

Thanks Lisa Cullen at TIME!! You’re a star in our book!!

–Mark Newman