Mike Taylor Interviews James Caan about Social Media in Recruitment

Posted on 23. Jun, 2009 by in Blog, Video Interviews

In this video interview Mike Taylor from Web Based Recruitment talks to James Caan about the positive impact that the Internet has had on recruitment from when James first started his first successful recruitment businesses (Alexander Mann) in 1985.

James also gives his views on Social Media and the spectacular impact that business networks like LinkedIn are having in some areas of  recruitment today. For more information about James and his companies visit his official web site www.James-Caan.com where you can also find details of his Autobiography: The Real Deal – From Brick Lane to Dragons’ Den.

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5 Responses to “Mike Taylor Interviews James Caan about Social Media in Recruitment”

  1. Tim Latham

    23. Jun, 2009

    Mike,

    Good to meet you at the Recruitment Society event last week and a good video here. The power of social media in me getting here – I followed a link in Twitter to a blog post to your site!

    Tim

  2. Jon Exley

    24. Jun, 2009

    All good stuff, but the power of video is being undermined by some very dodgy camera work!

  3. admin

    25. Jun, 2009

    Jon,

    Thanks for the feedback. As you probably gathered we are recruitment professionals and not video professionals!

    Hopefully it didn’t detract too much from the interview and you gained some useful information from it.

    Thanks
    Mike

  4. Lisa Scales

    06. Jul, 2009

    Hi Mike

    Great to see a video interview being conducted – I sort of agree with Jon regarding the camera work as the content is great and the camera work slightly detracts from this.

    For any other budding video interviewers out there the best way to approach this would be to introduce yourself first so the viewer knows what you look like and then point the camera face on to the interviewee for the remainder of the interview – I suppose a little bit like a field news reporter. James doesnt know quite where to look and he has quite alot of experience with this media and probably feels like he wants to talk to the camera.

    Looking forward to seeing you next week at the conference

    best regards
    Lisa

  5. David Lyons

    14. Oct, 2009

    Hi Mike
    Its the content not the camera. I belive that is what stops a lot of recruiters using video media. We got to realise we are not all Hollywood film directors, best to just say what you want to say on camera or screencast and get it out there.
    regards
    David

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