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What is One-way Video Interviewing?
Asynchronous video interviewing platforms enable organisations to improve the recruitment process by allowing them to use digital technology for candidate interviews. Purpose-built technologies, like VIA, increase speed-to-hire and recruiter efficiency and assist organisations in engaging with more candidates in a shorter period. Video interviewing solutions help employers successfully respond to critical issues like talent shortages, increased hiring expectations, flat budgets and losing top candidates to competitors due to lengthy recruitment cycles. It reduces the cost of the process as there is no need for face-to-face engagements, and potential employees can complete the interview in their own time and space. Video interviewing is also considered a solution to another critical issue: increasing candidate engagement through employer branding.
The Evalex Video Assessment Interview (VIA) is an asynchronous (one-way) pre-recorded video interviewing system. It presents companies, hiring managers and recruiters with multiple functionalities to enhance their recruitment process, reduce hiring time, and improve candidate experience while increasing objectivity and standardisation in the recruitment funnel.
Why is Video Interviewing so Important to your Organisation?
Access Anytime, Anywhere
- Interview more candidates, more accurately, in a fraction of the time, using VIA’s cloud-based video interview technology
- Because there is no software to download, candidates can complete their interview on any smart device at any location and time that suits them
- Recruitment teams can access the interview recordings in their own time without scheduling a face-to-face interaction with the candidate or fellow panel members
Increased Reliability
VIA increases the reliability and validity of interview outcomes by:
- Using standardised Behaviourally Anchored Ratings Scales (BARS)
- Using advanced algorithms that automatically combine and weight ratings and scores
- Creating consistency in questioning format and process
- Removing the prevalence of one interviewer’s perceptions unduly influencing other interviewers
Virtual Collaboration
VIA makes online collaboration easier for you, your team, and your hiring managers;
- Rate candidate responses without being in the same room
- No need to align diaries means that panel members can rate candidates whenever it is convenient for them to do so
- Interview notes allow the project leader to understand why panel members have rated candidate responses in the manner that they have
- Using sophisticated algorithms, the system provides an overall rating for each candidate interview based on pre-defined criteria and accounting for the opinions of each panel member
Enhanced Interviewing Process
There are many advantages to an One-way Video Interview solution, including:
- More convenience for candidates and reviewers – no need to schedule and align diaries
- Enhance your candidates’ experience of your hiring process
- Candidates are asked exactly the same questions in exactly the same manner, ensuring that the candidate experience is consistent, thus improving fairness and objectivity
- It eliminates the opportunity for reviewers to prompt, elaborate and ask follow-up questions, ensuring all candidates have the same chance to excel. It also eliminates halo effects and other forms of bias
- Reduces interviewer bias by eliminating the opportunity for some candidates to just “get along” better with specific reviewers than others
- Using of standardised rating scales and other scoring aids ensures that reviewers can better score the correct behaviours when they view the candidate interview, which also increases consistency and objectivity
- It eliminates the chance for reviewers to discuss a candidate’s video before scoring it, meaning that there is less opportunity for reviewers to adapt their initial impression of candidates due to the opinion of their colleagues, and leads to a more accurate and authentic reflection of the reviewers’ opinion of the candidate
Customisation
VIA offers a fully customisable interview platform that allows our clients to utilise their bespoke interview templates, questions, and competencies or to use our well-researched frameworks
Integration
VIA is fully integrated into our Odyssey and Evalex assessment solutions, allowing our clients to build automated assessment funnels and enhancing candidate experience, process efficiency, and the overall ROI of any high-volume recruitment process

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The Evalex Video Interview Assessment
The Evalex Video Interview Assessment (VIA) is a one-way, pre-recorded video interviewing platform that allows the hiring manager or recruiter to create questions they would like to pose to potential candidates for a specific position. Candidates can complete the interview on their smartphone, computer or tablet, and the platform allows them to record their answers in their own time. The hiring manager or recruiter then receives the interview video and can review it at their convenience. In cases where a hiring committee has been assembled, multiple individuals can view the video recording independently. The system collates an overall result based on a sophisticated algorithm that takes account of each panel member's opinion. VIA thus helps overcome scheduling and logistical issues if multiple interviewers are needed to assess candidates.
It also benefits candidates who may need help finding time in their current roles to complete an interview during traditional work hours.
Lastly, VIA allows for consistency across interviews, as every candidate is asked the same questions in the same order with the same amount of time to answer.
Interview Process






Helps overcome scheduling and logistics issues.
Benefits candidates who may have a hard time conducting an interview during traditional work hours.
Allows for consistency across interviews as candidates are asked the same questions in the same order with the same amount of time to answer.
Reduces the cost of the interview process with online flexibility.
The VIA app is available for use on smart phones, computers and tablets.
Features
User Dashboard
The user dashboard provides easy-to-navigate information on:

- Set up, manage and track project completion for different roles.

- Automated communication timeously updates your candidates and interviewers on the status of interviews and projects.

- Track candidate completion, progress and overall suitability for the role.

- Analyse the effectiveness and efficiency of your interviewing process.

- Create different templates for different roles.
- Create new questions, competencies and rating scales to be used for interviews, or use our extensive template catalogue.
- Customise the interview template to meet your unique business needs.

- View interview and rate candidates based on their suitability and the competence requirements for the role.
- Watch, consolidate, review, make notes.

- The outcomes of the VIA interview can be integrated with a range of assessment solutions, such as psychometric assessments, gamification, and leadership simulations.
License Options
No matter how big or small your business is, VIA has a flexible costing solution to fit your exact needs.
Flexible costing
Regardless of your business size, VIA has a flexible costing solution to fit your exact needs. We have worked hard to ensure that VIA is cost-effective and affordable.
Clients can unlock bulk discounts and purchase interviews up-front using a tiered pricing model.
Contact
Experience VIA for yourself
Signing up for VIA is incredibly easy. All we need is some basic information and a training session, which can be done remotely.
If you are interested in testing out the VIA solution for yourself, please let us know. You can contact us at support@via.evalex.com or +27 11 803 8703 for more information or to set up a demo.
Please note: our demo is, unfortunately, not for candidates.

