Assuming that you have been working for a while now at your company and am looking to explore outside opportunities, it is often wise to set up a site to display your portfolio of skills. Being reliant on Linkedin to merely display a text based resume just cannot cut it anymore.
If you were to explore sites such as nocode.tech and https://nocodelist.co/ , you would be spoilt for choice for a website builder app. However, this article is not about exploring how to create a website with no code tools.
Recruitment Process and Video Resume
If you considered doing a video resume, it might be due to the belief that with the proliferation of videos and video calls, recruiters would find it more engaging as it displays more emotion and be more impactful. However, if you were aware of the recruitment process, you might find that it may work against you. The reason is that for each job posting or job requisition out there, there can be tons of candidates that recruiters would need to evaluate.
Evaluation of a candidate based on a text resume is constrained by the number of candidates and details in the resume. For instance, any large companies that have a management trainee programme would attract a large pool of candidates. The first step would be to look at the paper qualifications and accomplishments that shows that one has leadership qualitifies. If it attracts 500 candidates, it would take about 2 minutes each for recruiter to glance through and filter the potential candidate.
In this instance, this is where AI would be useful for analysing text based resume based on keywords related to the job profile and providing a scoring of the best match. The issue of bias in recruitment process would not be there as this is merely an indicator for selection and there are other steps in the recruitment process that assesses the candidate more rigorously. The point here is that if text based resume is going to take time to read through, the probability of a video resume being watched is lower.
Set up your own portfolio site
Depending on which industry that you are in, it would find it beneficial to have a website showcasing your skills an expertise. For instance, if you are a blogger, influencer and digital content creator, it allows recruiters to gain an insight into your level of expertise and level of influence with blog postings and video channels subscribers.
If you are not in the content creation industry and still would like to stand out in your application, you would need to get creative with what you can display on your website.
Landbot.io with their resume template chatbot
Supposing that you have explored the no code tools mentioned at the start of the article and is happy to have a simple website powered by the likes of Wix.com, Bubble.io and Webflow.com and would like to provide a more interactive experience to those visiting your webpage. What are your options?
What can Landbot.io offer?
Landbot.io can be used for a short period of 5 days after registering for free to test out the chatbot templates or to build a customized flow and actions triggers for this requirement. This has been achieved based on Landbot.io key functions. On top of that, it is possible to export the conversation flow as seen on the Landbot.io canvas as PNG so that it is clear how the chatbot flow is defined. The template suggested here is the Conversational Resume. It can be included in your website as a live chat function, full page embed and popup.
Streamlit and Landbot.io
For the purpose of this article, I prefer to use Streamlit. It can be used to present the requirements in a single web page followed by the functionality of the Landbot chatbot that can demonstrate how it meets the requirements.
Time to see it in action.
Key Points to Consider
- Landbot.io chatbot provides an interactive experience that comes with a subscription cost that is not cheap.
- Video resume may be a fit for industries such as a tech startup.However, you would still face video interview assesssments in the next step of the recruitment process.
- If you have the skillset to build your own chatbot that can replicate the features of Landbot.io, then you really can stand out from the crowd.
- It would be more worthwhile to understand the recruitment process first before investing in providing an interactive experience that may not even be looked at if your text based resume do not match the job profile requirements.
