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At Willo, October means one thing. No, not Pumpkin Spice Latte season or scary movies - Dyslexia Awareness. The Month of October is Dyslexia Awareness Month, where organisations and businesses across the globe raise awareness and highlight the continued efforts to make the world as accessible as possible to people with dyslexia.

With the approach of a Silicon Valley VC but the partnership mentality of a family office, Marc Cohen, founder and sole partner at unbundled vc, works to back amazing founders and help them grow their businesses. If all goes well, he generates wealth for his family with his thesis of “investing incredibly.”‍ He’s used to the deluge of pitches a VC is bound to receive and was first introduced to the idea of video pitches in his previous role at 1818 Venture Capital. ‍ But with unbundled, he had a unique need: being on the small island of Guernsey, he isn’t likely to have founders stopping by his office. Yet he didn’t want to simply sit on Zoom calls all day. He turned to Willo to make structured, asynchronous video pitches his go-to solution for learning about a founder before booking a follow-up meeting. 

Hiring a virtual assistant (VA) can be stressful. First, you have to wade through the options—onshore or outsourced being the big question to consider. Then you might need to assess multiple candidates before selecting someone. ‍And while the process is similar to hiring full-time employees, there are some unique elements to navigate.‍ This mini-guide explains those unique elements and how to manage the whole thing.

Ok, so campus visits are out now?‍ Or are they back on? ‍ During the COVID-19 pandemic, public health restrictions provided a great excuse for why new grad hiring had to be all remote. Candidates forgave some shortcomings and less-than-ideal experiences. Now, things are changing.‍ To keep up in the changing world, companies need to take the best of the old ways—namely, the focus on human interaction—and leverage the best of technology—speed, flexibility, and cost efficiency—to build a new kind of recruiting funnel.‍ While we recommend all new grad funnels have some in-person elements if possible, you can still build a high quality, fully virtual funnel. Here’s what you need to know.

In-person interviews are a business’ worst (environmental) nightmare. ‍ But what if all those interviews had been in-person? What would be the environmental impact? ‍ It seems so small, but the impact is huge across every candidate and every company. Virtual hiring is not only more efficient for companies (and something many candidates prefer), but it’s also a boon to the environment in a few different ways.

With high volume hiring or mass hiring, it’s a numbers game. However, you’re still dealing with real people who deserve respect regardless of the hiring decision. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy to make a great candidate experience.

Remote Talent LATAM has grown steadily since its founding in 2017, but experienced a surge from 2020-2022. The company had significant inbound interest from candidates and companies alike, but it needed a better interview tool to scale sustainably. Leveraging Willo, Remote Talent LATAM was able to increase revenue 300% without needing additional headcount.

We won the Momentum Award for Summer 2022 plus four other awards from G2, one of the most trusted websites on earth for software reviews. 

Recruiters are burning out at an increasing rate. It’s easy to blame the great resignation and the shift to remote work (then hybrid work) and call it a day. But that’s too easy. The real problem isn’t the challenges we face—those will always come—it’s the processes and systems we have to handle them. In short: we need to upgrade recruiting systems to match the reality we now live in. And an upgraded system includes video interviewing (powered by a purpose-built video interview tool) as part of your recruiting process.

The best business development reps (BDRs) and sales development reps (SDRs) are personable, tenacious, and hungry for success. Usually, the best way to hire them is to engage with them one-on-one to truly assess their capabilities. While this is still critical at later stages of the interview process, it’s too time consuming for high-volume hiring in the early stages. The process becomes a hassle between interview scheduling, test calls, and more. If you’re in growth mode, asynchronous interviews are a key tool in your recruiting box. Here’s how they work and how they empower high volume BDR hiring for all stages of companies.

You were so excited to run a remote hiring process. ‍ Then you realized your day would be the same, just on Zoom instead of on the phone. ‍ Suddenly, remote video interviewing felt more constricting than a phone call from an office because you had to stare at a screen all day. And it’s started to burn you out, which makes sense when you google around—SHRM reported that recruiters are burning out at a fast pace, often due to the pressures of doing more with technology.‍ When live video interviews just aren’t working for your company anymore, whether due to admin burnout or simply managing too much volume, you need to keep the machine going in a different way. ‍ Here’s what causes live interviews to stop providing value—and what to do about it.

As a founder, there are a few company milestones that bring incredible joy. Fundraising is often one of them (Willo raised a Seed round in 2021 that I’m proud of). Helping our customers streamline video interviewing is another (the average user saves 6+ hours per week of admin with Willo). But the real win for me is seeing candidates succeed. And it’s only just the beginning.

Inviting candidates to video interviews will help them show their personality far more than they could in a phone screen. Now sending that invitation is even easier with Willo’s new Lever integration. Here’s how the integration works—and benefits both Willo and Lever users

Done right, virtual hiring events can build the same sense of connection as in-person while also showing off your fantastic culture.

Endava helps companies around the globe with software challenges. As a result, people are the company’s greatest asset. But with high-volume hiring needs, it’s difficult to find the time to screen every single candidate. This was especially prevalent when Endava LATAM received 400 intern applications during one hiring round. In this blog post, we show how the company leveraged Willo to save over 100 hours of recruiter time while providing a high quality candidate experience.

With video interviews, candidates could be recording their responses while you’re asleep. This has great benefits in terms of time savings and efficiency for high-volume hiring, but it also means you need to prepare differently for the process from start to finish. We know this pain all too well at Willo, so we put together a checklist you can use to make sure you’re ready for anything that comes along.

With over 40 video interview software platforms available, it can be difficult to choose the right one. If you’re considering video interviews and want a platform that helps manage the whole process (versus just having a video call on Zoom or Microsoft Teams), these questions will help you sort out precisely what you need so you can make a decision on software.

A straight look at the best free video interview platforms: what each free tier actually gets you, where it stops, and which one fits how you hire.

In the first 2 weeks of March, Willo users saved 9,000 hours of work (that works out to 6+ hours per recruiter per week).

Learn how Jenkinson’s, a wedding catering specialist based in England successfully bounced back from the Covid-19 pandemic and hired more than 50 new staff in weeks.

Simpletivity, a YouTube channel focused on helping professionals get more done with less stress, recently created a focus video on seven different tools that help recruiters. Here’s a roundup of those tools and what problems they help solve.

The Winter 2021 G2 reports have just been published in time for Christmas, and we have received not one, but THREE new awards. Voted Easiest to Set Up, Fastest Implementation and Best Estimated ROI out of 117 world-leading video interview platforms.

Join Hamish and learn how you can easily automate the scheduling of next-stage interviews using Calendly, Willo and Email by Zapier.

Tom looked for a tool that would help him hire remotely, and chose Willo because it easily enabled high-volume hiring. He was able to get set up quickly and start using the platform to interview candidates remotely, keeping everyone safe during the height of the pandemic.