ABSTRACT
This chapter describes the characteristics of video, followed by a review on what is currently known about video, and an agenda for future research. It also introduces the video resume as a relatively new instrument that is being used for the early screening of job applicants. Multimedia applications, like the opportunity to post videotaped resumes on the Internet, may have altered the nature of resume screening and may have made resume screening in some aspects more comparable to face-to-face job interviews. This chapter shows characteristics of the interview can be found in the video. Video resumes and job interviews can be consider as general denominators for tools that vary in their goal and content, format, standardization, administration medium, and interactivity. Paper resume also explores the role of applicants' personality and cognitive ability in explaining their preferences for paper versus video resumes: extraverted applicants perceived more opportunity to perform with video resumes compared to introverted applicants.
