WePow
This tool has solely been researched by the WilsonHCG Innovation team.
Summary
Engage
Design pre-recorded and live interviewing experiences and delight your candidates.
Transform your communications into a personal and friendly experience where you can share authentic video content, connect with candidates and team members anywhere, and deliver a consistent message.
Pre-recorded - Replace time consuming phone screens with consistent and engaging pre-recorded interviews. Eliminate the hassle of scheduling and free-up your recruiter's’ time
Live - Meeting candidates face - to - face is important, WePow lets you meet candidates in real time. Interviews can be recorded and shared with your team to make a better hiring decisions.
Manage
Let us do the grunt work so you don't have to
Keeping track of candidate progress is time consuming and challenging. We help you track, sort, and organizing candidate responses so you can spend time getting to know them better.
Collaborate
Collaboratively evaluate and select the right talent for your team
Share pre-recorded and live interviews with your colleagues, score candidate responses based on your predefined criteria, and compare and select the best candidates.
Hire
Improve your ability to identify top talent
Finding the best talent in a collaborative environment is a breeze. We make sure each team member has a voice. Through improved communication, teams can make a better decision when evaluating and hiring candidates.
Analyze
Measure and improve
Track your team and your candidates' performance. Gain insights into what is working and how to further improve your process.
Candidate Experience
Engage candidates with your brand story - A positive candidate experience is our priority
Personalized interview invitations
Give your candidates the personal touch. Just like with any special event, personalized invitations containing your brand will help candidates feel welcomed.
Candidate messaging
Keep candidates close and gain their trust early in the recruitment process. Through a simple click, you'll be able to use our messaging platform to provide a unique and personal experience by quickly and directly communicating with each candidate.
Branded sites with company videos
We help candidates become familiar with your organization and company culture through fully branded sites. Humanize the candidate journey and create an engaging experience by sharing authentic video content.
Practice
Candidates can practice and prepare in a safe environment, before taking an interview. Preparation boosts candidate confidence, reduces anxiety, and allows them to shine
Interview
Taking interviews with Wepow is fun. Our easy to use platform provides a positive experience that can't be replicated by a phone interview. Record video questions from your hiring team. You have the flexibility to decide how open and diverse each interview will be. No complicated software installs or sign-in's required. Candidates can personally "meet" with you at their own convenience.
Support
Support is just a click away. Your candidates have access to personalized support throughout the interview experience. We are here to help
Additional Resources
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Technology Demo Notes
9.1.2017 Call Notes
Attendees: Crystal Kardys
- Launched 2011, focused on pre-recorded pre-interview video interviews but also has live video interviews
- Met JW and KP at a conference in 2013 - started talking about working together
- Spoke with KP last week - who disclosed Montage
- Slowly building up their client base in the recruitment space
- "We meet you where you are and empower you"
- Demo notes:
- Products:
- Core - Pre-corded screening
- Live video interviews
- Mobile interviews
- To come: scheduling capabilities
- Dashboard page for recruiters - working on making the dashboard customizable
- Can have a parent account and then sub-teams (i.e. different accounts which can be branded as the client)
- Any limitations with sub-groups? Not on the number. However, isn't able to aggregate data for all groups. Also, we aren't able to integrate the data with client ATS' but would be able to do an API feed into our data warehouse.
- Can add promotional videos - can we customize it per job?
- Can customize by client and job (the second video on the job would be for the "transition video" section)
- This could be beneficial from an employment branding standpoint - add in engagement videos, videos on the role, etc.
- Can we add in the job descriptions? Not right now but we can include the link to the posting in the email message
- Can record questions and/or type it out
- Can limit time to think and time to answer
- Candidates cannot re-record responses - we would want to disclose this in the recruitment process
- Recommends the last question "any additional information you would like to share with me"
- Have a place for uploading documents - XL, PDF, .doc - 10MB limit per doc
- Can candidates complete the video interviews by phone, tablet, etc.?
- Yes! iOS, Android, Airplane mode, offline, computer
- Mobile app will rebrand itself to be in line with the subgroup
- Can complete offline and it will upload the server and off their device
- Can't upload documents from mobile device; candidate will need to go back in from a desktop computer and upload the docs
- Today, 9.1.17: they are launching the ability to respond to questions in written format. Can't do this feature on mobile today but adding in over the next couple months
- How /where is the data stored? For how long?
- Core data servers is in Ireland, US. & Japan
- Working on being able to force client data to specific to certain data centers
- Has privacy shield and is working on a 2nd layer (specifically bc clients in Switzerland which is more strict)
- Has candidate consent
- We can also add a custom privacy agreement on top of WePow's - need to self-select in (double-consent)
- Working on how we report it back to the client
- They have a specific process and team for erasure - they are also working on client disclosures about erasing candidate data and impact on
- Large engineering team, release updates weekly
- Can send videos through WePow directly
- Able to set up public links
- Candidates will have the ability to "opt out" of the interview
- Does this integrate with iCIMS? Is there a chrome extension?
- Does integrate with iCIMS - we can set it up by using a specific status trigger the video and WePow will pick it up and send it
- Standard practice questions for the candidate
- The form will outline "time to think" and "time to answer"
- Can candidates start/stop and return to complete the video? Yes
- LinkedIn profiles can be linked
- Rating of experience results return to us; we can add customized questions as well
- What about support if a candidate has trouble:
- there is 24 hr chat and email support
- Is SMS capable
- Analytics:
- Recruiter dashboard allows you to filter results
- Keyboard short-cuts
- Can see how multiple candidates responded to the same question
- Can create custom rating scales and feedback
- Live interviews:
- 3 interviewers + 1 CN
- Working on a scheduling tool; aiming to launch that by the end of 2017
- Currently, integrates with Google calendar but they are working on other platforms
- Working on building out feedback survey within the interview platform
- Support system is through a live chat
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