How Video Interviewing Helped METER Groups Hiring Efficiency - Spark Hire

How Video Interviewing Helped m Groups Hiring Efficiency - Spark HireLast in our series of customer spotlights from the SHRM Annual Conference is John Zeugschmidt. To check out Illinois Tool Works conversation, completed by Sarah Thio, click here.My first conversation was with Talent Acquisition Specialist at METER Group, Jon Zeugschmidt. Between sessions at SHRM, he dropped by and told me how Spark Hire has helped him become more efficient in his position. Dont take my word for it, watch his video testimonial (or read the transcript below) My name is John Zeugschmidt, and work at METER in Pullman, Washington, and I work in Talent Acquisition.What challenges were you experiencing prior to using Spark Hire?The challenges that we had prior to Spark Hire were largely due to interviews taking so much of hiring managers time. And just kind of the frustration that comes along with that, decreased productivity, morale, and happiness around interviews. How did Spark Hire help you overcome th ose challenges?Spark Hire helped us overcome those challenges by giving our hiring managers a group of video interviews to review on their own time, so it freed up their schedule. It also allowed us to put more people in front of the hiring managers so they could make those decisions. It wasnt just HR making the pre-screening decisions. We can give them more people in a shorter amount of time, so they can really own the hiring process and make those decisions themselves.What aspect of Spark Hire have you found to be the fruchtwein valuable?The aspect of Spark Hire thats been the most valuable to use is being able to have multiple stakeholders be able to view an interview as opposed to just who was available at the time. We can share that video interview internally, and good candidates are shared more frequently than those that arent. So it almost travels virally within our company when we find a good candidate.Would you recommend Spark Hire to others?I would absolutely recommend Spa rk Hire to anybody that is in HR or does a significant amount of hiring. Its going to increase your productivity. Its one of those few tools that as an HR professional, that you can definitively show the ROI. So its an absolutely great tool that you can use to help make your organization more efficient and hire better people.