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Monday, February 13, 2012

Introduce Yourself to Potential Employers Via Video

A Severna Park resident is marketing a new website for job seekers that replaces a paper resume with a short online video introduction to potential employers.

Instead of a having a resume do the talking for them when looking for work, job-seekers can now introduce themselves to potential employers  with short videos done on a computer or a smartphone, uploaded to a website jobon.com. A start-up in the digital world, Jobon.com brings together job-seekers and employers.  A prospective employer, who is registered as a customer at Jobon.com, can scroll through candidates and get a first impression within seconds, whenever it's convenient. Meanwhile, the potential applicant can choose jobs, save them and then click "interview"  to answer typical interview questions in a brief video. The job-seeker  picks a question to answer, such as "Why are you the best person to hire?" The appicant answers, and if…

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